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- KonferenzbeitragAccess to Environmental information in a Shared Environmental Information System(Proceedings of the European conference TOWARDS eENVIRONMENT, 2009) Pick, Thomas
- KonferenzbeitragAccess to Environmental Information – Towards a Digital Global Knowledge Marketplace(Umweltinformatik ’00 Umweltinformation für Planung, Politik und Öffentlichkeit, 2000) Pick, Thomas; Menger, Matthias; Jensen, Stefan; Lethen, JustinaDie Europäische Umweltagentur (EEA) arbeitet zusammen mit dem United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) an der Errichtung eines virtuellen Marktplatzes für Umweltinformationen. Dieser soll zunächst die Informationsreservoirs der Netzwerke beider Organisationen, dem European Information and Observation Network (EIGNET) und UNEP's Global Environmental Information Exchange Network, Infoterra, verfügbar machen. Der Marktplatz wird sich aber nicht auf eine reine Publikationsfunktion beschränken. Vielmehr wird er interessierten Teilnehmern die Möglichkeit bieten selbst Informationen bereit zu stellen und mit anderen Anbietern in Kontakt und Austausch zu treten. Dabei steht die Beteiligung einem möglichst breiten Spektrum möglicher Anbieter offen. Neben öffentlich rechtlichen Organisationen sollen sowohl der traditionelle wie der ,grüne` industrielle Sektor und der private Nutzer angesprochen wer
- KonferenzbeitragEnvironmental Metadata - Doing It The Dublin Core Way?(Sustainability in the Information Society, 2001) Pick, Thomas; Kvist, Ebbe; Lounama, KirsteDas Berichtswesen der Europäischen Umweltagentur (EUA) wird vom Bedarf anIndikatoren für den Zustand der Umwelt geprägt und basiert auf einem integrierten Datenfluß. Es ist das Ziel der EUA diese Aufgabe mit Hilfe des Berichtssystems ReportNet' zu bewältigen, um die Lücke zwischen benötigter und vorhandener Information zu schliessen. Sie umgreift die Vision einer verteilten, von verschiedenen Netwerken gemeinsam genutzten, europäischen Umweltinformationsinfrastruktur, mit dem Ziel standatisiert e Austauschformate und Kommunikationsprotokolle zu unterstützen. ReportNet baut auf einem integrierten Managementsystem für Metadaten auf und nutzt DCES als Grundlage für die Beschreibung der Informationsquellen. Technisch basiert die Architectur auf SOAP, XML und in JAVA entwickelten Anwendungen.
- KonferenzbeitragFrom Århus to Inspire: Putting Environmental Information on the Map(Environmental Informatics and Systems Research, 2007) Pick, ThomasEvery environmental assessment relies on data and information and the availability thereof. Without data, science would be mere guesswork and environmental monitoring would be impossible. While not long ago, data where exclusively used by the scientists that collected them for their own work, a globalisation of data and information availability can be observed recently. On the European Scale environmental monitoring relies on data and information sharing throughout the community. The European Commission has, in the last 4 years, passed a number of directives to further public access to and awareness of environmental information. The fundamental idea of this legislation is that increased public access to environmental information and the dissemination of such information will contribute to a greater awareness of environmental matters, a free exchange of views, more effective participation by the public in environmental decision-making and, eventually, to a better environment. This paper draws up the legal thematic space and correlations of the environmental information directive within the community legislation.
- KonferenzbeitragStockholm, Rio, Århus, Inspire: Public Access to Environmental Information in the EU(Environmental Informatics and Systems Research, 2007) Pick, ThomasWith its 2007 report on Climate Change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC states the anthropogenic influence on Climate Change to be at about 90%. This marks an increase of 24% compared to the last report of the year 2001. These new findings have been in a large part possible on account of a uch improved data basis! While the scientific community has long been aware of the importance of access to data to issue qualified assessments of a.o. environmental phenomena, it becomes more and more apparent that sustainable development and governance requires information, consultation and participation of the public. It is evident that this can only work on the basis that the public should not be excluded from having access to environmental data and information. In this regard, the adoption of the directive aimed at establishing an infrastructure for spatial information in the Community (aka INSPIRE) by the European Council in November 2006 marks a major stepping stone towards this goal. With the INSPIRE directive to come into effect in 2007 the implementation of the Århus Convention is seeing its most recent activity of casting the paradigm of free access to environmental information into European legislation. The Århus Convention (Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decisionmaking and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters) has its roots in the 1972 Declaration of United Nations on the Human Environment (Stockholm Declaration …), stating in Principle 20 that the free flow of up-to-date scientific information and transfer of experience must be supported and assisted, to facilitate the solution of environmental problems; environmental technologies should be made available to developing countries on terms which would encourage their wide dissemination without constituting an economic burden on the developing countries. Although it took exactly another 20 years, Principle 10 of the 1992 Rio Declaration of the UN on Environment and Development laid out the foundation for the Århus Convention on Access … It states that Environmental issues are best handled with participation of all concerned citizens, at the relevant level. At the national level, each individual shall have appropriate access to information concerning the environment that is held by public authorities, including information on hazardous materials and activities in their communities, and the opportunity to participate in decision-making processes. States shall facilitate and encourage public awareness and participation by making information widely available. Effective access to judicial and administrative proceedings, including redress and remedy, shall be provided. With it’s 3 pillars: Public access to environmental Information, public participation in environmental decision making and access to justice in environmental matters the Århus Convention establishes a number of rights of the public (individuals and their associations) with regard to the environment. The Directive on public access to environmental information (2003/4/EC…) represents the legal implementation of first pillar of the Århus Convention. It requires Member States to progressively make available the environmental information held by public administration bodies and disseminate it to the public. The Directive had to be implemented in national legislation by the first quarter of 2005. While the legal implementation poses little problems, the technical part is more challenging. However, in contrast to INSPIRE, neither guiding material is available as of yet, nor is there a harmonised and integrated implementing approach visible throughout the EU. The process of setting the INSPIRE legislation has been accompanied by an intensive process of agreeing on implementation rules and standards. No less than four drafting teams have been busy for several years with this task, with the result that now that legislation has been passed the Member States are basically set for the technical implementation of the directive. Regarding the much broader thematic scope of directive 2003/4/EC (in fact the thematic space of INSPIRE is a full subset of directive 2003/4/EC) it is surprising that no such support is available here. The same holds also true for the environmental information directive’s “sister” directive, the “public participation” directive 2003/35/EC. The latter is the legal implementation of the second and third pillars of the Århus Convention, acknowledging that effective public participation in the taking of decisions enables the public to express, and the decision-maker to take account of opinions and concerns which may be relevant to those decisions, thereby increasing the accountability and transparency of the decisionmaking process and contributing to public awareness of environmental issues and support for the decisions taken. The objective of Directive 2003/4/EC is to contribute to: (a) providing for public participation in respect of the drawing up of certain plans and programmes relating to the environment; (b) improving the public participation and providing for provisions on access to justice within Council Directives 85/337/EEC and 96/61/EC. Now, in order to further the implementation of directive 2003/4/EC, a harmonised strategy, the development and distribution of guidance material and tools are dearly required. Taking account of the X-Domain and X-Level character of the environmental information sector, as for INSPIRE, interoperability and integration are the key aspects for implementation. It is thus mandatory that information dissemination follows a structured approach on the basis of international standards. Furthermore, tools and services are needed to facilitate access to information. This paper will draw up the thematic space and correlations of the environmental information directive. It will address the requirements and challenges of implementing the Public Access to Environmental Information Directive 2003/4/EC. It will furthermore give an overview on the state of the art of its implementation in member states, highlighting current legal and technical issues. Eventually a procedure for developing a harmonized approach on the technical implementation will be discussed.
- KonferenzbeitragSurvey on the implementation of the environmental information directive in EU Member States(Environmental Informatics and Industrial Environmental Protection: Concepts, Methods and Tools, 2009) Pick, Thomas; Pillmann, WernerThe Directive on public access to environmental information (2003/4/EC; AEI-Directive, The European Commission, 2003-1), forms a cornerstone of the European Union’s environmental policy. It requires member states to progressively make available environmental information and disseminate it to the public in order to achieve the widest possible systematic availability and dissemination. The AEI-Directive has been in effect for 6 years now. In the context of the EU FP7 Project “ICT-ENSURE” a survey was conducted on the state of implementation of the AEI-Directive in member states (The European Commission, 2008-2). This paper summarizes the results of this study, which is essentially based on an internet survey. Moreover, following this survey, a questionnaire has been completed in advance for each country which was sent to the publication departments of the Ministries of Environment of the EU 27 for review, correction and completion. Until today 22 countries have responded, 19 of which sent back the reviewed questionnaires. The study shows that all member states use the internet as the main distribution tool for environmental information. Legislation for free access to environmental information is in effect in the majority of the countries. More than 50% transposed the AEI-Directive into national legislation. Germany seems to be the only country which developed a special information system for the implementation of the directive. Furthermore, the study proved that, due to the language barrier, access to environmental information is in most cases restricted to the national level. In conclusion it can be affirmed that the current lack of organisational, technical and semantic harmonisation and interoperability makes it almost impossible to access environmental information on a supra-national level.
- KonferenzbeitragThe UDK Web Editor – A Collaborative Tool for Environmental Information Management(Managing Environmental Knowledge, 2006) Pick, ThomasThe European Directive on Public Access to Environmental Information (2003/4/EC) [1] requires EU Member States to actively disseminate environmental information to the public. To implement Directive 2003/4/EC, the Ministry of Environment of the State of Lower Saxony (MELS) has produced an organizational and technical model to supply relevant environmental information on time and in an up-to-date status. The main strategy is to register all environmental information available in the MELS business division that complys with the mandatory core of information specified in the directive’s article 7. This information is catalogued in the State’s environmental information catalogue system and assigned an expiration date. An Editing System has been developed on the basis of the collaboration platform MERMIG, enabling the maintenance of the catalogue through the use of a standard web browser. Furthermore, the system keeps tab on the information objects and notifies the object’s author to review the information object after the expiration date has passed. In this way the State of Lower Saxony complies with the proactive tenor of the directive and ensures to have at any time control on the state of the environmental information available. On a second level, MELS works on making all environmental information available through the ministries internet portal.
- KonferenzbeitragThe UDK Web Editor – A Collaborative Tool to Support the Implementation of the EC Directive on Public Access to Environmental Information (2003/4/EC)(Workshop des Arbeitskreises „Umweltdatenbanken“ der Fachgruppe „Informatik im Umweltbundesamt“, 2006) Pick, ThomasThe European Directive on Public Access to Environmental Information (2003/4/EC) requires EU Member States to actively disseminate environmental information to the public. On the European Level there is no guidance or implementation regulation for a harmonized implementation available for this. The result is a strong variation of the state of implementation within EU Member States and across Europe. As a consequence, there is a high risk for Member States and Regional Authorities for becoming the subject of lawsuits based on non-compliance with the directive. In response, the Ministry of Environment of the State of Lower Saxony (MELS) has produced an organizational and technical model to supply relevant environmental information on time and in an up-to-date status. The main strategy is to keep tab on every peace of environmental information in the MELS business division, complying with the mandatory core of information as specified in the directive’s article 7. This information is catalogued in the State’s environmental information catalogue system and assigned an expiration date. An Editing System has been developed on the basis of the collaboration platform MERMIG, enabling the maintenance of the catalogue through the use of as standard web browser. Furthermore, the system keeps tab on the information objects and notifies the object’s author to review the information object after the expiration date has passed. In this way the State of Lower Saxony complies with the proactive tenor of the directive and ensures to have at any time control on the environmental information available. On a second level, MELS works on making all environmental information available through the ministries internet portal. Strong consideration has been given to interoperability aspects. The technical solution presented here is fully Open Source based and completely Web based. It uses State of the Art tools and technologies in a distributed architecture.