The 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 ...

Umweltkommunikation wird meist mit Umweltbildung, Politik, Umweltinformatik, Beteiligung der Öffentlichkeit und Umweltberatung in Verbindung gebracht. Abweichend davon wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit als „Environmental Communication” umfassend jede Übertragung umweltrelevanter Informationen angesehen. Zur Analyse ...

Information on urban greenery is vital for planning, design and maintenance of the urban environment. This paper describes the monitoring of phytotopes in Vienna for the management of urban greenery using remote sensing methods. The present use of infrared images and the potential of digital images for whole city inventories ...

To build a framework for the manifold topics comprised in Environmental Informatics a conceptual environmental Meta-Model is designed. In this paper, the model is exemplified in two case studies: (1) in the area of air quality control and management and (2) applied to structure results from the Millennium Ecosystem ...

A huge amount of environmental information is available in Europe, and there is no lack of political will behind the idea of integrating environmental information sources in general. DG Environment favours the creation of a Shared Environmental Information Space (SEIS), while DG Information Society & Media (INFSO) is ...

Environmental informatics merges environmental research with the application of latest technology. New issues and increasing specialization broaden the field of “Enviromatics” significantly. Especially environmental communication and education links computer applications for environmental protection to the public debate ...

ICT-ENSURE is the leading European project for establishing a coherent European Research Area in the context of ICT for environmental sustainability. As a Support Action funded within the 7th Framework Program it aims at structuring a yet unstructured and distributed field. One central part in achieving this aim consists ...

There is shortly introduced the eEnvironment (Electronic access to Environmental information) as a part of eDemocracy (the use of electronic communications technologies such as the Internet in enhancing democratic processes within a democratic state or representative democracy) and tools for its implementation: the Shared ...

The word “system” is pervasive in science and technology. System models are the representation of systems in a descriptive textual form, as physical models, as computer simulation programs and/or as spatial models. In this paper the attempt is made to describe different forms of system models from an application-oriented ...

Der Schutz der Flieflgew‰sser ist eine wesentliche Teilaufgabe im Umweltschutz. Informationssysteme unterst¸tzten die Entscheidungsfindung f¸r Gew‰sserschutz-Maflnahmen, die im gesellschaftlichen, ˆkonomischen und ˆkologischen Bereich zu treffen sind. Im Donauraum wird derzeit versucht, verf¸gbare Informationskomponenten ...