IAV data needs: perspectives from IGBP

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IAV data needs perspectives from IGBP

• Sybil P. Seitzinger
• International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
• Stockholm

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• Overall needs
• Developing country perspective

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• Overall needs
• Developing country perspective

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Observation Issues (universal)

• Lack of integration of obs
• disciplinary
• not co-located
• I do fieldwork in my backyard
• redundant investment
• undersampling
• limited capacity in critical regions
• Lack integation natural and social/human
  dimensions obs
• Conceptual framework relating scales/regionalizati
  on
• Lack coordination ground-based and space-based
  obs
• Absence policy of free/open exchange scientific
  data (ecol. soc sci)

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Observation Issues (universal)

• Lack of integration of obs
• disciplinary
• not co-located
• I do fieldwork in my backyard
• redundant investment
• undersampling
• limited capacity in critical regions
• Lack integation natural and social/human
  dimensions obs
• Conceptual framework relating scales/regionalizati
  on
• Lack coordination ground-based and space-based
  obs
• Absence policy of free/open exchange scientific
  data (ecol. soc sci)

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Distribution FLUXNET sites
From www.fluxnet.ornl.gov
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FLUXNET Networks and Land Cover
From www.fluxnet.ornl.gov
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Observation Issues

• Lack of integration of obs
• disciplinary
• not co-located
• I do fieldwork in my backyard
• redundant investment
• undersampling
• limited capacity in critical regions
• Lack integation natural and social/human
  dimensions obs
• Conceptual framework relating scales/regionalizati
  on
• Lack coordination ground-based and space-based
  obs
• Absence policy of free/open exchange scientific
  data (ecol. soc sci)

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Observation Issues

• Lack of integration of obs
• disciplinary
• not co-located
• I do fieldwork in my backyard
• redundant investment
• undersampling
• limited capacity in critical regions
• Lack integation natural and social/human
  dimensions obs
• Conceptual framework relating scales/regionalizati
  on
• Lack coordination ground-based and space-based
  obs
• Absence policy of free/open exchange scientific
  data (ecol. soc sci)

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Observation Issues

• Lack of integration of obs
• disciplinary
• not co-located
• I do fieldwork in my backyard
• redundant investment
• undersampling
• limited capacity in critical regions
• Lack integation natural social/human dimensions
  obs
• Conceptual framework relating scales/regionalizati
  on
• Lack coordination ground- space- based obs
• Absence policy of free/open exchange sci data
  (ecol. soc sci)

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• Overall needs
• Developing country perspective

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Developing country perspectives

• IAV Workshop - Nov. 2009 Brazil
• co-sponsored IGBP, IPCC, ESSP and START
• 22 developing countries, 5 developed

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Major challenges

• Data poor and limited data access
• Intensity of multiple stresses (envir societal)
• Goverance structures often lacking
• Local/indigenous knowledge systems poorly
  documented/validated

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Major challenges and needs

• Data poor and limited data access

Data sharing free, easily accessible
format Compilation/sharing existing approaches,
tools, information, case studies User friendly
methods (for scientists, policy makers, other
stakeholders)
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Major challenges

• Data poor and limited data access
• Intensity of multiple stresses (envir societal)

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Major challenges

• Data poor and limited data access
• Intensity of multiple stresses (envir societal)

Mexico City
Air pollution Water stress Poverty Climate
change
Patricia Romero Lankao
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Major challenges and needs

• Data poor and limited data access
• Intensity of multiple stresses (envir societal)

Identify vulnerable areas and drivers Adaptation
strategies relevant to DC multiple stressors
consider development agenda Separate climate
change attribution from poor management
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Major challenges

• Data poor and limited data access
• Intensity of multiple stresses (envir societal)
• Goverance structures often lacking

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Major challenges and needs

• Data poor and limited data access
• Intensity of multiple stresses (envir societal)
• Goverance structures often lacking

Research on governance processes that enhance
envir sustainability, human adaptation and reduce
vulnerability
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Major challenges and needs

• Data poor and limited data access
• Intensity of multiple stresses (envir societal)
• Goverance structures often lacking
• Local/indigenous knowledge systems poorly
  documented/validated

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Major challenges and needs

• Data poor and limited data access
• Intensity of multiple stresses (envir societal)
• Goverance structures often lacking
• Local/indigenous knowledge systems poorly
  documented/validated

Documentation/validation Do these systems work in
face of climate change
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Multi-scale assessment
Monitoring systems models
Indigenous knowledge, participation experiments
Observation systems models
Source Reyers, B., SAfMA Lessons Learned
(Panama, June 2002)
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Identify hotspots using local knowledge, basin
and regional obs and models
Source Reyers, B., SAfMA Lessons Learned
(Panama, June 2002)
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Major challenges - developing countries

• Data poor and limited data access
• Intensity of multiple stresses (envir societal)
• Goverance structures often lacking
• Local/indigenous knowledge systems poorly
  documented/validated

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IAV data needs perspectives from IGBP

• Sybil.Seitzinger_at_IGBP.kva.se
• www.IGBP.net

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Multi-scale assessment
SADC region
Basin
Local
Source Reyers, B., SAfMA Lessons Learned
(Panama, June 2002)
Source Reyers, B., SAfMA Lessons Learned
(Panama, June 2002)