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Title: Improving data usability for environmental indicators in Strategic Environmental Assessment


1
Improving data usability for environmental
indicators in Strategic Environmental Assessment
  • 1Peter Mooney 2Alison Donnelly
  • 1National Centre for Geocomputation, NUI
    Maynooth.
  • 2School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College
    Dublin.
  • Environmental Research Centre, Environmental
    Protection Agency.
  • IRELAND

2
There are many sources of baselinedata/informatio
n in SEA
3
Data Gaps occur in a variety of ways
  • Data does not/never did exist
  • Data is physically in-accessible
  • Data is too old or just not applicable
  • Data is of very poor quality
  • Wrong level of aggregation (temporal or geog)
    or wrong scale
  • Data distributed in an in-accessible way
  • political or human barriers
  • software or cost barriers

4
Responsibility for Data Issues from Collection
to End Usage
Data collectors Data managers Data users
Data does not exist -- --
Data is physically inaccessible --
Data is too old out of date -- -- --
Very poor quality --
Incorrect level of aggregation -- --
Distribution/Access (human barriers)
Distribution/Access (cost barriers)
Distribution/Access (Software/Format)
-- (No Responsibility)
(Responsibility)
5
Post-SEA can provide for feedback
Predict Significant Environmental Effects
Environmental Data Stored
Used By
SEA
Monitoring Actual Effects of the Plan
Feedback Inform/Identify Problems
Environmental Data Collection And Analysis
6
Midlands Waste Management Plan
HUMAN HEALTH There is a lack of human health
data available at national, or regional level in
relation to waste management, however an overview
is given here. A literature review in 2003 on the
effects of various forms of waste diaposal
Health and Environmental Effects of Landfilling
and Incineration of Waste A Literature Review,
concluded that Ireland has insufficient resources
to carry out adequate risk assessment.
  • Are there any clues as to why there is a lack of
    human health data?
  • Are these data hidden from public access?
  • Are they only available in paper format?

7
Midlands Waste Management Plan
  • Data gaps
  • Three are a number of areas where there is
    insufficient data or where the level of detail is
    not sufficient for the purpose of baseline.
  • Groundwater vulnerability and aquifer
    classification data for Westmeath, Longford and
    Offaly
  • Air quality data that is specific to the impacts
    due to waste (main source Annual Environmental
    Reports)
  • Human health data relevant to waste facilities
  • Biological water quality data upstream and
    downstream of significant waste facilities
  • Traffic or number or journeys related to waste
    transport and waste activities
  • Energy consumption data for waste facilities
  • Which of these data gaps are as a result of
    data access problems?
  • Which of these data gaps are as a result of
    data not actually existing?

8
Greater Dublin Water Supply
Data Gap Impacts on otter activity Impacts on
breeding waterfowl listed in Annex 1 of the EU
Birds Directive Impacts on the wetted perimeter
downstream of Lough Ree and impacts of the
predicted increase in the duration in minimum
downstream flows of approximately 12m3/sec (54
days to73 days) on biodiversity and the River
Shannon.
Data Gap Unknown sites of cultural heritage
  • What are the reasons for these gaps?
  • Can the Environmental Report speculate or provide
    examples?

9
Draft Rural Development Plan Wales
  • Transboundary problems are evident here
  • Ontological problems also evident
  • Data Scale problems
  • Data providers need to improve their service

10
SEA can provide very useful feedback for data
collection/management
  • SEA Breaks away from traditional
    producer/consumer data model
  • SEA needs - good data quickly at useful
    scales and levels of aggregation
  • In a unique position to provide feedback on
    problems encountered when collecting baseline
    data and information
  • Thank you for your attention!
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