Systematische Gliederung der Böden Mitteleuropas - Statusbericht der AG Bodensystematik

Die Arbeitsgruppe Bodensystematik der Kommission  Bodengenetik, Bodensystematik, Bodeninformation trifft sich jeweils 3 Mal pro Jahr für 3 Tage.  Im Focus der Beratungen stehen die pedogene Gliederung der Böden Mitteleuropas sowie die Gliederung der bodenbildenden Substrate. Im Statusbericht wird die Weiterentwicklung der Gliederungen im Vergleich zur fünften Auflage der Bodenkundlichen Kartieranleitung vorgestellt. Schwerpunkt der aktuellen Diskussionen sind die Gliederung der Terrae calcis, Pelosole, A/C-Böden und terrestrischen Organosole

Emerging Strategies for Healthy Urban Governance

Urban health promotion is not simply a matter of the right interventions, or even the necessary resources. Urban (and indeed global) health depends to an important extent on governance, the institutions and processes through which societies manage the course of events. This paper describes the concept of governance, distinguishing between reforms aimed at improving how government works and innovations that more fundamentally reinvent governance by developing new institutions and processes of local stakeholder control. The paper highlights strategies urban governors can use to maximize their influence on the national and international decisions that structure urban life. It concludes with some observations on the limitations of local governance strategies and the importance of establishing a “virtuous circuit” of governance through which urban dwellers play a greater role in the formation and implementation of policy at the national and global levels

An Interoperable Grid Information System for Integrated Resource Monitoring Based on Virtual Organizations

In many Grid infrastructures different kinds of information services are in use, which utilize different incompatible data structures and interfaces to encode and provide their data. Homogeneous monitoring of these infrastructures with the monitoring data being accessible everywhere independently of the middleware which provided it, is the basis for a consistent status reporting on the Grids' resources and services. Thus, interoperability or interoperation between the different information services in a heterogeneous Grid infrastructure is required. Monitoring data must contain the identity of the affected Virtual Organization (VO) so that it can be related to the resources and services the VO has allocated to enable VO-specific information provision. This paper describes a distributed architecture for an interoperable information service, which combines data unification and categorization with policies for VO membership, VO resource management and data transformations. This service builds the basis for an integrated and interoperating monitoring of Grids, which provide their data to more than one VO and utilize heterogeneous information services