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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