Author : United States Accounting Office (GAO)
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 2018-06-19
Category :
ISBN : 9781721610341
Federal Environmental Data Systems
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 34,72 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Human ecology
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Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 1974
Category :
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Author : National Academy of Engineering
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 18,27 MB
Release : 2001-09-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309062438
Information technology is a powerful tool for meeting environmental objectives and promoting sustainable development. This collection of papers by leaders in industry, government, and academia explores how information technology can improve environmental performance by individual firms, collaborations among firms, and collaborations among firms, government agencies, and academia. Information systems can also be used by nonprofit organizations and the government to inform the public about broad environmental issues and environmental conditions in their neighborhoods. Several papers address the challenges to information management posed by the explosive increase in information and knowledge about environmental issues and potential solutions, including determining what information is environmentally relevant and how it can be used in decision making. In addition, case studies are described and show how industry is using information systems to ensure sustainable development and meet environmental standards. The book also includes examples from the public sector showing how governments use information knowledge systems to disseminate "best practices" beyond big firms to small businesses, and from the world of the Internet showing how knowledge is shared among environmental advocates and the general public.
Author : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Management Information and Data Systems Division
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 36,9 MB
Release : 1976
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Author : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Health Research
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Environmental health
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Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 15,89 MB
Release : 2007-11-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309179408
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) collects, manages, and disseminates a wide range of climate, weather, ecosystem and other environmental data that are used by scientists, engineers, resource managers, policy makers, and others in the United States and around the world. The increasing volume and diversity of NOAA's data holdings - which include everything from satellite images of clouds to the stomach contents of fish - and a large number of users present NOAA with substantial data management challenges. NOAA asked the National Research Council to help identify the observations, model output, and other environmental information that must be preserved in perpetuity and made readily accessible, as opposed to data with more limited storage lifetime and accessibility requirements. This report offers nine general principles for effective environmental data management, along with a number of more specific guidelines and examples that explain and illustrate how these principles could be applied at NOAA.
Author : Capital Systems Group, inc
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 35,21 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Environmental protection
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Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 19,19 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309086647
Reliable collections of science-based environmental information are vital for many groups of users and for a number of purposes. For example, electric utility companies predict demand during heat waves, structural engineers design buildings to withstand hurricanes and earthquakes, water managers monitor each winter's snow pack, and farmers plant and harvest crops based on daily weather predictions. Understanding the impact of human activities on climate, water, ecosystems, and species diversity, and assessing how natural systems may respond in the future are becoming increasingly important for public policy decisions. Environmental information systems gather factual information, transform it into information products, and distribute the products to users. Typical uses of the information require long-term consistency; hence the operation of the information system requires a long-term commitment from an institution, agency, or corporation. The need to keep costs down provides a strong motivation for creating multipurpose information systems that satisfy scientific, commercial and operational requirements, rather than systems that address narrow objectives. Resolving Conflicts Arising from the Privatization of Environmental Data focuses on such shared systems.
Author : Carl Oppenheimer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 23,54 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1461569249
Throughout the world a staggering amount of resources have been used to obtain billions of environmental data points. Some, such as meteorological data, have been organized for weather map display where many thousands of data points are synthesized in one compressed map. Most environmental data, however, are still widely scattered and generally not used for a systems approach, but only for the purpose for which they were originally taken. These data are contained in relatively small computer programs, research files, government and industrial reports, etc. This Conference was called to bring together some of the world's leaders from research centers and government agencies, and others concerned with environmental data management. The purpose of the Conference was to organize discussion on the scope of world environmental data, its present form and documentation, and whether a systematic approach to a total system is feasible now or in the future. This same subject permeated indirectly the Stockholm Conference on the environment, where, although no single recommendation came forth suggesting a consolidated environmental data pool, bank or network, each recommendation indicated that substantial environmental data needed to be obtained or needed to be pooled and analyzed from existing data sources.
