Objective
REMSSBOT aims to demonstrate environmental information services at the regional level. Participating in the project are public administrations from the regions Piedmont (IT), Attica (GR) and Zeeland (NL).
Many local and regional environmental management administrations, like those in the REMSSBOT regions, are faced with a transition from management by environmental topic and local area to integrated environmental management, or even cross-border management. Most public administrations already have some environmental management systems or subsystems in place. These are usually designed along the paradigms valid during the original conception of these systems, and this has resulted in the coexistence of incompatible systems and in many cases also of incompatible information. An obvious way to make this less of a patchwork of systems and information would be to redesign and re-implement a new IT system from scratch, taking all user requirements into account. However, apart from the complexity and costs involved in such an effort, this would imply writing off investments in data and existing systems, and it would inhibit the further use of current environmental management systems.
The REMSSBOT project aims at overcoming these problems by offering integral management using an innovative telematics solution. The approach is based on a catalogue which conforms to the guidelines of the Catalogue of Data Sources (CDS) of the European Environment Agency (EEA). This describes what information is available at what location and provides IT systems with the automated procedures to access the actual information. The supporting tools and building blocks allow users to navigate through the catalogue and explore information sources regardless of the environmental topic and location.
Based on such a design approach, within the project three demonstrators will be made in the participating regions:
- in Zeeland, water managers and policy makers, acting in the frame of the International Scheldt Commission, will be informed about the situation in the whole catchment area of river Scheldt
- in Piedmont, public officers of several administrations involved in the management of the administrative and technical procedures of industrial plants with relevant risk of accident (EEC Directive n. 82/501) will co-operate during the assessment proceedings
- in Attica, several measurement points in the regional area will be integrated into a single system to show conditions on air quality, solid waste disposal and bathing waters.
These demonstrators would prove the feasibility of using a catalogue-driven approach to implement real applications at relative low cost and with low effort.
Major Validation Sites
Regione Piemonte, Torino, IT
Provincia di Torino, Torino, IT
Provincia di Alessandria, Alessandria, IT
Lab. Sanità Pubblica, Grugliasco (TO), IT
International Scheldt Committee, Brussels, BE
Rijkswaterstaat Directie Zeeland, Middelburg, NL
Rijks Instituut voor Kust en Zee, Middelburg, NL
Rijks Instituut voor Integraal Zoetwaterbeckeer, Lelystad, NL
Rijkswaterstaat Rjks Instituut voor Kust en Zee, Den Haag, NL
ITLD, Information and Training in Local Development, Athens, GR
Users
In the three Regions, historically, public administrations have targeted their efforts towards monitoring individual environmental topics. Today they themselves are focusing on achieving an integrated understanding of the environment and the multiple factors affecting environmental quality. In Zeeland the Rijkswaterstaat, the powerful Dutch Ministry for the Waters is involved in this process, along with its three associated directorates. In Piedmont the demonstrator will be used by the most important local Administrations (Regione Piemonte and Provincia di Torino). In Attica 23 municipal enterprises, within ITLD, and the Greek Ministry of the Environment will provide their efforts.
Approach
Each data provider describes both the format and qualitative aspects of the data made available but leaves the data itself in its native format. The telematics technology provides the necessary tools to locate and access the information regardless of location or format. The catalogue plays a central role as it not only describes what information is available on the network but also describes the information characteristics and the way to access that information. It will be based on an object-oriented architecture.
Expected Benefits
- closer cooperation among public administrations
- possibility of convincing other administrations to join a cooperative approach in dealing with environmental information and to save money using resources that already exist, instead of expending further effort
- easier way for end-users to access to the environmental information and enforce quality of information services
- multiple environmental topics addressed simultaneously
- reusability of the applications: any application can run anywhere in the network, using any information available in the network
- facility for local and regional authorities to enhance their own databases without affecting catalogue-based applications
- uniform access by applications and models to information on any topic irrespective of it's location
- verification of integrated services in 'pilot sites' in three regions.
Contribution to EU Policies
The project supports a number of the horizontal actions called for within the Fifth Action Programme, specifically improving the data provided (basic information, trends and indicators) and offering a platform for information, education and training of all economic actors including policy-makers, planners, managers, workers, consumers.
Additionally, as a result of its regional, modular approach, the project retains the principles of subsidiarity and the concept of shared responsibility which permeates the Fifth Action Programme.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology environmental engineering waste management
- engineering and technology environmental engineering air pollution engineering
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences hydrology drainage basins
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering information engineering telecommunications telecommunications networks
- social sciences political sciences public administration
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Italy
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