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Federal Department of the Environment,
Transport, Energy and Communications DETEC
Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Environmental Indicators
(Swiss Experience)
26.6.2012
Division
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Agenda
1. Indicators & Reporting: Indicators as a basis for
environmental reporting
2. Indicator Management: Technical solution for indicator
management
3. Some Thoughts+: Open Issues about SENSE-II
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Indicators & Reporting I:The Swiss definition of an indicator I
• Criteria
• Policy relevance
• Representative
• Understandable , unique and clear
• Target availability
• Data availability and regular monitoring
• Spatial and temporal coverage
• Methodological soundness
• Internationally comparable
Many (all?) points in common with EEA Indicators, other national
indicators?
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Indicators & Reporting I:The Swiss definition of an indicator II
• One dataset
• One value per year
• Available for several years
• Assessment
• „Traffic lights“
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Indicators & Reporting I: Role of indicators
Indicators are basically used for two purposes:
• Steering environmental observation (DPSIR flowers)• Setting the Agenda: What must be measured?
• Distribution of financial means
• Environmental Reporting: Products for the public and
policy makers
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Indicators & Reporting II: Reporting Products
Indicators as a basis for different reporting products:
Online Reporting
• Indicator portal: http://www.bafu.admin.ch/umwelt/indikatoren/index.html?lang=en
• Environmental Status Reports Onlinehttp://www.bafu.admin.ch/umwelt/status/index.html?lang=en
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Indicators & Reporting: Reporting Products
Print products
• Environment Switzerland
• Thematic reports
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Indicator Management: Indicator Database I
• MS SQL Database
• Web-Frontend
• Search functions
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Indicator Management:Indicator Database II
• Indicator Metadata
• Indicator Assessment
• Data
• 4 languages (D, F, I, E)
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Indicator Management:Publishing Tool
• Indicators are published through
PENTAHO (open source BI Tool)
• Graph Parameters can be chosen
• HTML is optimized for
screenreaders
• Every update directly published
from database into indicator portal
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Indicator Management:Workflow
• Still a lot of off-line work needed
• Possible to generate wordfiles to track changes!
• Close contact to experts
• Difficult for experts to simplify „their“ topics
• Difficult to choose the traffic light
• Time consuming to be up-to-date!
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Some Thoughts) about matching indicators)
• Question raised @ NRC SOER workshop on SENSE-II
content: What does „matching“ mean?
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These hibernating friends finally want to see the
snow!
The goat delivered the metadata /assessment for
snow:
• white
• cold
• wet
• soft, sometimes hard
• sparkling
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The hedgehog found the first snowflake!
Its cold, white, wet, a bit hard, a bit soft +
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It‘s snow according to Switzerland+
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It‘s sparkling, cold, white and wet! Snow according to you?
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EEA knows how snow looks like!
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Relevance for SENSE-II?
• What content do we want to compare between
countries?
• Are Swiss and EEA indicators worth a comparison in SOER Part
C? And what would such a comparison mean?
• Importance for assessments?
• How should differences be addressed in SOER Part C?
• What can be learned from these differences?
• Impacts on technical solutions?
• One to many relations+
• Many to many relations+
• Feed generation out of a database?
• National directives for presentation!
• Reuse existing content!
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A last picture to refresh your minds.+
Snow looks beautiful in RDF!
Thank you!
Paintings by: © Sebastian Meschenmoser, Herr Eichhorn und der erste Schnee, Essliger Verlag 2010