Dear Researchers and Academics;
I work on the 100% renewable power Global Grid subjects. I am interested in the locations of very large and large renewable power plants.
During my research, I define and describe the importance of the soil conservation regions, water conservation regions and forest conservations regions. These regions have to be untouchable (no settlement, no concrete, no metal, etc.; soil conservation only for agriculture, water conservation only for clean fresh water, forest conservation only for forests). These regions should be large and very large sites.
I thought and assumed that the international governing bodies (e.g. the United Nations) had already worked on these topics, defined, decided, and published a Global Soil Conservation Map (worldwide protected sites), a Global Water Conservation Map (protected lakes, rivers, underground water, etc.) and a Global Forest Conservation Map (protected forests) for large protected areas agreed upon and published by international consensus (like by the United Nations).
All authorities (regional, national, international) have to obey the borders of these defined and published large protected areas.
I could not find any official map (a map for soil, a map for water, a map for forest) yet.
Can you please send me a Global Soil Conservation Map, a Global Water Conservation Map and a Global Forest Conservation Map, if there is one for Global Soil Conservation, one for Global Water Conservation and one for Global Forest Conservation.
If there are GIS files for these maps in some formats such as for Google Earth, ESRI ArcGIS, they will be very useful for my research.
I would like to thank all of you who contribute to this question in advance.
Best Regards
Burak Omer Saracoglu
Here is a link of World Protected Area Database (WDPA) maintained by UNEP -WCMC
http://www.protectedplanet.net/
You can work out different categories of protected area from this database. I am not sure I understand what you mean by Soil Conservation map. But there is harmonized world soil database (no conservation indication though)
http://webarchive.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/External-World-soil-database/HTML/
There is also quite a few interesting maps at WRI that might be helpful to you
http://www.wri.org/resources/maps
Hope these will be of help
Hi Burak,
you might find activities of ISRIC - World Soil Information of your interest. Especially their data can be useful for your research (global 1km soil grid, etc.)
Regards
Lukas
http://www.isric.org/content/data
http://soilgrids.org/
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