Environmental information needs :
2010 & beyond
Jock Martin
EEA
Bridging the Gap: Bridging the Gap: Dublin, 28-30 April 2004
The GMES “diamond”
as in COM(2004)
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GMES
Services
Spacesystems
In-situsystems
Data Integration &Information Management
GMES
Services
Spacesystems
In-situsystems
Data Integration &Information Management
Platform for Integrated Spatial Assessment : an EEA proposal to GMES
Bird decline
Loss of natural/ sem i-
natural land Forest m anagem ent
Soil degradationLoss of am enities (tourism )
W ater stressW etland
vulnerability to pollution
Condition of W ater ecosystemsFish decline
W ater stress
W ater abstraction
FloodingDrainage
Pesticides & fertilizers leakage to rivers,
sea
W ater body restructuring, dam s
H ydrom orphic changeAvailab le w ater resource
W ater quality, quality o f the rivers, lakesQ uality o f coasta l & m arine
w ater Q uality o f groundw ater
W aste w ater d ischarge
In troduced species
Species dynam ics
H abita ts sta te and dynam ics
C ondition o f terrestria l ecosystem s
Landscape d ivers ity
B iod ivers ity o f agrosystem
U rban spraw lIrrigation
Transport netw orksPestic ides & fertilizers use
C onvers ion of m arg ina l landW ater use
Intensification of agricu lture
Fragmentation of habitatsLoss in buffering
capacitiesW etland drainage
Eutrophication
Platform for Integrated Spatial Assessment of Europe’s Environment
Platform for Integrated Spatial Assessment of Land, Biodiversity Platform for Integrated Spatial Assessment of Land, Biodiversity & Water& Water
Data to Information
USERS
COM
National
Regional
River basins
Natural Parks
Local
Public
Private
IndicatorsAssessment
Forecasts
EEA
MSCOM (JRC, Eurostat, ESPON,
ICZM…)
Data handling Modelling,
Assimilation
EEA/ GMES Platform
Satellite Data
ESA, EUMETSAT
Public/private organisations
System design
EEA
N
E
E
D
S
Network ESA
EUMETSAT/ EUMENET
COM/MbCountries (WFD, N2000, EPER…) JRC, Statistical Offices
EEA/EIONET
Science inputESA EC 6FP, RTD Programmes, Universities
RT
D
Data handling Modelling
ESA/GMES-Services
EUMETSATJRC
Ope
rati
onal
Ser
vice
s
In situ & local Data
EEA/ REPORTNET
INSPIRE, Eurostat, JRC
National/ Regional/Basin organisations
Museums
Making best use of existing data: integration and modelling
Mapping
Sampling
Sites monitoring
Scenario 1: « straight-line development »
The “blue pentagon” attracts a majority of economic flows, slows down the development of “satellite” centres, creates an imbalance in land use…
Long-term Scenarios of the Conference of Peripheral
Maritime Regions (CPMR/CRPM) 2003
Scenario 2: polycentric
developmentThe polycentric model adopted by the INTERREG III Community Initiative proposes a more efficient and equitable organisation of the EU territory
Questions:
What about the environment?
Is one scenario better than the other?
Why? Which impacts?
Urban Growth Regional Impacts
Source: http://www.ltcon.fi/propolis/slideshows.htm
Scenarios of the Propolis study on
urban development and transport (2004)
The straight-line development generates heavy impacts
What about other options?
e.g. Dortmund: Land Use Urban Growth Boundary Scenario 541
Compact City Scenario
orPolycentric Scenario
Which quality of life ?
Which impact of land use on ecosystems ?
•National National reportingreporting
•Basin Basin reportingreporting
Quality Index of the Rivers, by Basins
National Representative Network / EuroWaternet
National National Rivers Rivers
Monitoring Monitoring NetworkNetwork
Shared information
system
Shared information
system
SamplingSampling
ModellingModelling
•WFD WFD
•EWN, EEA EWN, EEA IndicatorsIndicators
•Eurostat, Eurostat, OthersOthers
Compliance dataCompliance data
A shared information system
(BTG)
Base
Progress in catchment sealing (F)
• In France, increase in dam commissioning resulted in sealing of large areas of catchments
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