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From Data access to information process in water resource management at basin scale
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2009
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Shaker Verlag
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ICT developments (i.e. web-based and open-source software) and policies on public access to information (i.e. Aarhus convention and its national transpositions) have significantly increased citizen’s accessibility to environmental data. In the water resource management domain the EU WFD has also include participation processes (e.g. from “basic” citizen to decision makers level) into the implementation of watermass or basin management plans. Thus the situation in Western Europe is that one should have an easy access to environmental data whatever its educational level (from basic level to expert domain) and should “eventually” contribute to a decision making thru a participation process. But many gaps (i.e. technical, educational, political...) and misunderstandings occur between population, stakeholders, experts and decision makers. If the participative process has to cope with those gaps to set an optimal decision many conflicts are emerging thru the role game playing between local people, experts, stakeholders and decision makers. Thus there’s a real need for a minimum education in ICT applied to environmental resources management to optimize the position of citizens (e.g. non decision makers, non stakeholders and non expert people) and the weight of local knowledge in the participative process.
This paper analyses three steps of this crucial issue. First a reviewing of different ICT monitoring and sensors applied to water resource management will set a basis of discussion about gaps between data acquisition (e.g. expert data) and local knowledge (e.g. non expert or public web-based data). Second an analysis of information building process using environmental databases and GIS will address technical and educational gaps that exist between experts and non experts (i.e. population, stakeholders, and decision makers) in converting data into quality information for a participative decision making in the water resource domain. Third two educational programs “River 21” based on the DPSIR methodology applied to the Schelde watershed and the “Certificate of Informatics and Internet for future practitioners in the field of environmental and urban planning sustainable management” (i.e. C2i MEAD in French) will presents two tracks contributing to reduce the gaps between experts and non experts to optimize decision making in a participative process applied to water resources management.