Transactional Environmental Support System Design: Global Solutions

Transactional Environmental Support System Design: Global Solutions

Jason Papathanasiou, Basil Manos, Stratos Arampatzis, Robert Kenward

Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 313

ISBN13: 9781466628243|ISBN10: 1466628243|EISBN13: 9781466628250

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2824-3

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Designing a Transactional Environmental Support System grew from the desire to allow citizens to exchange knowledge on local land and animals for the purpose of learning how to increase their sustainability in regards to biodiversity and livelihood.

Transactional Environmental Support System Design: Global Solutions details the results of this project ranging from studies done in small, local communities to those done in much larger national settings. Survey results of government practices, availability of decision support software, and community responses to data recording are all highlighted in this emerging research. Additionally, the book goes on to emphasize the increasing potential for environmental decision support while directly addressing some of the challenges that must be overcome.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Foreword

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

Introduction (pages 1-6)

Robert E. Kenward, Jason Papathanasiou, Basil Manos, Stratos Arampatzis

Change in land-use, and hence, biodiversity, result from decisions at local level, which are restrained only in part by formal environmental assessments. However, local knowledge and adaptive management for small de-intensification...

Chapter 2

Central Information Flows and Decision-Making Requirements (pages 7-32)

Robin J.A. Sharp, Julie A. Ewald, Robert Kenward

Information needs of government for SEA, EIA, and other aspects of biodiversity conservation and sustainable development are studied and reported in this chapter. This includes needs related to biodiversity for land use planning, for...

Chapter 3

Local Information Flows and Decision-Making Requirements (pages 33-59)

Kathy H. Hodder, Adrian C. Newton, Loretta Perrella, Jane Butters, Robert E. Kenward, Julie A. Ewald

This enquiry characterises the use of information on biodiversity and ecosystem services in the environmental decision making process at the local (as opposed to national) level. Data were collected from nine case study areas, in...

Chapter 4

Models of the Information Flows and Decision Making Process (pages 60-69)

Loretta Perrella, Kathy H. Hodder, Julie A. Ewald, Robert Kenward

During pilot surveys at local level, individual stakeholders and officials in local government were asked to list the main environmental issues for which they needed to make decisions, and then to select sources of information they...

Chapter 5

Database of Environmental Decision Support Tools (pages 70-96)

Mari Ivask, Eve Aruvee, Kristjan Piirimäe

This chapter investigates modeling and data sources for environmental decision support for local authorities and private managers. A metadatabase of 198 computerized environmental decision tools was collected using a questionnaire...

Chapter 6

Pan-European Survey and Database of Environmental Assessment Factors (pages 97-119)

Julie A. Ewald, Robin J.A. Sharp, Pedro Beja, Robert Kenward

In order to design TESS, it was necessary to determine how and what information is utilized across Europe when decisions affecting the environment are made at present, and which systems now in place appear to be working in terms of...

Chapter 7

Pan-European Analysis of Environmental Assessment Processes (pages 120-133)

Robert Kenward, Julie A. Ewald, Robin J.A. Sharp

This chapter presents data on variation between national and local levels for information requirements, and on the pattern of data within these levels across Europe. It notes high decision-making, use, and generation of information...

Chapter 8

Biodiversity Trends Associated with SEA and EIA Practices (pages 134-153)

Pedro Beja, Julie A. Ewald, Robert Kenward

This chapter compares trends in policies on land uses and economic activity to trends in ecosystem services and biodiversity in cultivated areas as well as in protected areas, using a database defined in Chapter 6. The analysis...

Chapter 9

An Overview of the Case Studies (pages 154-163)

Dimitra Manou, Jason Papathanasiou

TESS partners were asked to develop local level case studies for Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Turkey, and the UK. All studies consisted of a socioeconomic project and a mapping project, except that...

Chapter 10

Participatory Development of a Recreational Plan for Laulasmaa Landscape Protection Area, Keila Rural Municipality, Estonia (pages 164-167)

Mari Ivask, Kadri Tillemann

The case study in Estonia used automated GPS records to map 2 km and 4 km cycle routes for eco-tourism through a 42 ha protected area. Local authorities, NGOs and citizens participated with great interest in the socio-economic survey...

Chapter 11

Census of the Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus) at Leveste, Municipality of Gehrden, Germany (pages 168-171)

Gabor von Bethlenfalvy, Julia Hindersin, Egbert Strauß

The case study used spotlight strip census routes to estimate Brown Hare numbers in a 793 ha hunting district. The habitats, dominated by intensively farmed arable land were also mapped. This is part of a Germany-wide long-term...

Chapter 12

Exploring the Development of New Tourism Activities in the Municipality of Kerkini by Using the Area’s Natural Resources Sustainably, Municipality of Kerkini, Greece (pages 172-175)

Dimitra Manou, Jason Papathanasiou

Work in the 354 km2 Municipality of Kerkini studied ways to increase ecotourism without harming rich local biodiversity, in cooperation with government, NGOs and private stakeholders. Routes were mapped for hunting, horse-riding...

Chapter 13

The Case Study in Bózsva, Hungary (pages 176-180)

László Szemethy, Gyula Kiss, Gergely Schally, Judit Galló

The case study in 16 km2 around the Municipality of Bózsva surveyed attitudes and mapped an area that had been flooded. Further mapping, to plan a potential cycle route, revealed issues with bureaucracy and a need for training in the...

Chapter 14

The Case Study in Zator, Poland (pages 181-184)

Zenon Tederko

The mapping of aquatic vegetation in the 461 ha Przyreb fishpond complex at Zator, in Poland’s Carp Valley, was to help balance restoration of multifunctional aquaculture with biodiversity conservation. Strong local support has...

Chapter 15

Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardinus) Conservation in Holm Oak Montados of Southeastern Portugal: The Identification of New Biodiversity-Related Activities in an Economically Depressed Rural Area (pages 185-189)

Rui Morgado, Carlos Rio Carvalho

Five volunteers mapped wild rabbit latrines along transects, as a prey index for endangered Iberian Lynx, in the Municipality of Barrancos, a Natura 2000 area. High capability and local knowledge suggest that conservation employment...

Chapter 16

The Case Study in Sfântu Gheorghe Commune, Romania (pages 190-194)

Ion Navodaru, Raluca Bozagievici, Eugenia Marin, Diana Bota

School children in the 541 km2 Commune of Sfântu Gheorghe, part of a Biosphere Reserve in the Danube Delta, mapped vegetation areas containing two wild plants. The plants were potential natural resources for raising income from...

Chapter 17

Mapping Landuse Impacts on Bezoar Goat (Capra aegagrus) Habitats in Firtina Basin, Turkey (pages 195-198)

Ercan Sütlü, Basak Avcioglu, Mustafa Özgür Berke, Engin Gem

WWF-Turkey implemented two different case studies in regions which have different ecosystems and socio-economic characteristics. The first case study was conducted in Firtina Basin in a northeastern part of Turkey which is dominated...

Chapter 18

Identification of Priority Areas for Conservation in Lake Egirdir and Lake Kovada, Turkey (pages 199-202)

Mustafa Özgür Berke, Ercan Sütlü, Basak Avcioglu, Engin Gem

The second Turkish case study was implemented in Lake Egirdir and Lake Kovada which are in the southwestern part of Turkey. Both lakes are surrounded by agricultural areas and are located in the same basin with high biodiversity. The...

Chapter 19

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the Frome Catchment, Purbeck District, United Kingdom (pages 203-208)

Adrian C. Newton, Kathy H. Hodder, Antonio Uzal Fernandez, Robert Kenward

A map for valuing ecosystem services in the 480 km2 Frome catchment, to investigate scenarios of change in land use, was internet crowd-sourced. Scouts mapped deer habitats in 15% of the 30 km2 Arne Parish, while 143 residents...

Chapter 20

Design of a Transactional Environmental Support System (pages 209-245)

R.E. Kenward, N. M. Casey, S. S. Walls, J. M. Dick, R. Smith, S. L. Turner, A. D. Watt, J. Papathanasiou, Z. Andreopoulou, S. Arampatzis, O. Papadopoulou, G. von Bethlenfalvy, C. Rio Carvalho, R. Morgado, R. J A. Sharp, Z. Tederko, L. Szemethy, J. Gallo, D. Székely, K. Piirimäe, M. Ivask, E. Aruvee, I. Navodaru, B. Avcioglu, Engin Gem, J. A. Ewald, N. Sotherton, A. C. Newton, K. H. Hodder

This chapter draws on results from previous chapters, in some cases creating new syntheses by combining information across chapters and including findings of previous projects. Its specific objective is to consolidate all these...

Chapter 21

Guidelines and Recommendations (pages 246-257)

Robin J.A. Sharp, Julie A. Ewald, Robert Kenward

Policy guidelines and recommendations were derived from direct and indirect sample surveys of stakeholders in most European Union countries and some others and from related analytical work. They call for rationalisation of the high...

Chapter 22

Assessment Report (pages 258-268)

Zenon Tederko, Stratos Arampatzis

This chapter describes the evaluation processes required by European Commission and added internally, including the strengths and weaknesses identified. Recommendations are made for removal of such weaknesses, and for building on...

Chapter 23

Overall Conclusions (pages 269-273)

Robert Kenward, Jason Papathanasiou, Basil Manos, Stratos Arampatzis

This chapter summarises the intentions, processes, and findings of the project, funded by the Commission of the European Union, to design a Transactional Environmental Support System (TESS). It provides an executive summary for the...

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