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Item Designing a GIS to meet real needs in the maldives(ASPRS the Imaging and Geospatial Information Society, 2010-04-26) Mohamed Shafee; Dr. Kevin Lim; Dr. Robert Ryerson; Mr. Ihsan Sadiq; Ahmed RasheedThe Government of the Republic of Maldives has received financing from the International Development Association (IDA) toward the cost of the Maldives Environmental Management Project, part of which was to develop a National Geographic Information System (NGIS) Strategic Framework and Implementation Plan. The development objective of the project is to strengthen the capacity for environmental management in the Maldives, by addressing some of the human resource constraints and informational impediments to improved environmental management. This paper presents the approaches used to overcome the many hurdles that were faced to develop the Strategic Framework and Implementation Plan. While the many challenges of designing an enterprise GIS to meet the real needs of small-island nations have been reviewed in previous papers, this project faced additional issues. To the challenges of dealing with national as well as local issues and operating with limited budgets, the situation in the Maldives was further complicated by a general lack of expertise in GIS, limited education in the field, virtually no existing system capability in the field, and a user community that generally lacked practical experience. This paper describes how all of these countervailing forces were seamlessly managed by the team so that the solution was made by and for the citizens of the Maldives. The description of the approaches used to develop the solution forms a useful guide to the development of a Spatial Data Infrastructure in the development context.Item Confronting a rising tide : a proposal for a convention on climate change refugees(2009) Docherty, Bonnie; Giannini, Tyler; ބޮނީ ޑޮކަރޓީ; ޓައިލާ ޖިއައްނިނީItem The Maldives’ 2009 carbon audit(Ministry of Housing and Environment of the Maldives, 2010-11-23) Flora, Bernard; Thibault, Ben Khelil; Vincent, Pichon; Léo, TissotIn March 2010, the Government of Maldives mandated La Compagnie Benjamin de Rothschild and BeCitizen, a Paris (France)-based strategic environmental consultancy to take forward the country’s pledge to become carbon neutral by 2020. Between July and October 2010, BeCitizen carried out the first step of this work, a Carbon Audit which covered the Maldives’ 2009 Greenhouse Gas Emissions, projections for 2020 and priority areas to be addressed in order to reach carbon neutrality.Item Maldives : Environment Assessment(Asia Development Bank, 2007-09) Asia Development Bank; އޭޝިޔާ ޑިވެލޮޕްމެންޓް ބޭންކްItem Survey of climate change adaptation measures in Maldives : final report, version 2(Ministry of Housing and Environment, 2011-01) Ministry of Housing and EnvironmentItem Second national environment action plan : NEAP II(Ministry of Home Affairs, Hosing and Environment, 1999) Ministry of Home Affairs, Hosing and EnvironmentItem The implications of sea-level rise for the republic of Maldives(1989-06) Edwards, Alasdair J.; އެލަސްޑައިރު ޖޭ. އެޑްވޯޑްސްItem The Maldives and the impact of expected climatic changes : UNEP regional seas reports and studies no.104(UNEP, 1989) Pernetta, J.; ޖޭ. ޕޯނެޓްޓާ; Sestini, G.; ޖީ. ސެސްޓިނީItem Growing islamic militancy in Maldives(Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad, 2008) Hafeez, Mahwish; ޙާފިޒު, މަހުވީޝްItem Climate change and food security in Maldives(Ibrahim Shabau, 2006) Shabau, Ibrahim