Transcript Protected Area Management

co-funded by the
European Community
eContentplus programme
The GI-INDEED experience: the
module on GI and nature
conservation “Spatial data
infrastructures and protected
areas”
Emanuele Roccatagliata
GISIG
MAIN OBJECTIVE
To set up a training project as
a support to overcome
knowledge gaps in the use of
GI to comply with EU
environmental Directives, at
different governance levels
and with special reference to
the INSPIRE Directive.
The project has been among
the first training initiatives, at
the European level, to address
the subjects dealt with in the
INSPIRE Directive.
MAIN PROJECT AIMS
• To increase the knowledge of the correct ways to deal with
Geographical Information for environment management
• To develop, at the European level, a set of learning objects
suitable to be used also in a local context
TARGET
•
Local Administrations using Geographical Information
• Environmental Agencies
• Private enterprises that need environmental information as a
support to decision making
• Education and training organisations
• Stakeholders and citizens
The training module
AREAS”
“USE OF SDI FOR PROTECTED
is one of the project outputs
ORGANISATION OF THE TRAINING CONTENTS:
organised and delivered as distance e-learning through an Open
Source Learning Management System (LMS) and e-learning
platform by the Dokeos Corporation, supplying the following tools:
study groups
e-mail
agenda (to set and communicate timetable, deadlines, etc.)
document uploading tool
different student and teacher interface
self test creation tool
learning Paths
student results reporting
THE
ORGANIZATION
OF THE TRAINING
MODULES AND
THE
MODULE 3
“USE OF SDI
FOR
PROTECTED
AREAS”
MODULE 3 OBJECTIVES AND WAYS
Obiective is to enable trainees to publish on the web
geographical data related to environmental protection and
make them accessible through a Geoportal
On the one hand this module addresses the political and
management issues of nature conservation and protected
areas, at the European and National level; on the other
hand it deals with the use of GIS within this thematic sector
It concludes with a guided exercise including analysis of a
study area, creation of a “use case” and publication of the
related geographical data in a dedicated Geoportal
MODULE 3 MAIN FEATURES
 Course duration: 100 hours
 4 ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation
System)
 Classroom hours: 10
 On-line hours: 20
 Self study hours : 70 hours
 Language: English
MODULE 3 CURRICULUM
1
Driving Policies: International and EU
Policies
IUCN Classification of Protected Areas
Natura 2000 Network and related
national contexts
Ecological Networks (Appendix)
2
Protected Area Management
Protected Areas Management and
Plans
The Article 6 of Habitats Directive
3
SDI for Protected Areas
Examples of GIS for Protected Areas
INSPIRE and Nature Conservation
Data Modelling for Protected Areas
Feature List for Protected Areas
Web Publishing and OGC Services
4
Use Case Development
Case study characterization
The GI-INDEED Geoportal and its
Metadata Catalog
Web Publishing Software
MODULE & E-LEARNING PLATFORM
AN OUTLINE OF THE DATA
THEMES ADDRESSED BY
Nature-SDIplus
NatureSDIplus
ANNEX I (SPATIAL DATA THEMES REFERRED TO IN ARTICLES 6(A), 8(1) AND 9(A))
9. Protected sites
Area designated or managed within a framework of international, Community and
Member States' legislation to achieve specific conservation objectives.
ANNEX III (SPATIAL DATA THEMES REFERRED TO IN ARTICLES 6(B) AND 9(B))
17. Bio-geographical regions
Areas of relatively homogeneous ecological conditions with common characteristics.
18. Habitats and biotopes
Geographical areas characterised by specific ecological conditions, processes,
structure, and (life support) functions that physically support the organisms that live
there. Includes terrestrial and aquatic areas distinguished by geographical, abiotic
and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural.
19. Species distribution
Geographical distribution of occurrence of animal and plant species aggregated by
grid, region, administrative unit or other analytical unit.
NatureSDIplus
Annex I
Protected sites
Description:
•They refer mostly to conservation of nature, but could also refer to other objectives (fishing, forestry, cultural heritage …).
•Nature protection may be linked to certain landscapes, habitats or species.
•Protected sites differ from environmental classifications of resources and objects as they are based on formal, legal or
administrative agreements/decisions.
Scope, use examples:
The theme refers sites to policies from Community and UN as well as to national ones:
•Habitat Directive
•Directive 79/409/EEC (Birds)
Habitat and Birds sites are mostly managed and reported under the Natura 2000 programme
•World Heritage, Ramsar, or Barcelona, or Helsinki, or OSPAR Convention, UN Geoparks: other references for internationally
designated sites
•Other designations: Biogenetic Reserves and European Diploma Biosphere Reserves
•Nationally designated sites: the annually updated EU inventory of nationally designated areas, CDDA, began under CORINE
and is now maintained for EEA by the ETC on Bio-Diversity
•Protected cultural heritage: man-made objects or other kinds of cultural heritage sites are not excluded, as well as protected
geological heritage
Important feature types and attributes:
Protected site, classification system, category, Id, name of area/site, description, reference to legal foundation, establishment date,
modification date, target of protection
Many links and overlaps with other themes, such as:
Administrative units, cadastral parcels, hydrography, elevation, land cover, geology, land use, area management/restriction,
regulation zones and reporting units, bio-geographical regions, habitats and biotopes, mineral resources
NatureSDIplus
Annex III
Bio-geographical regions
Description and peculiarity:
•The extent of areas with common characteristics, usually based on climatic, topographic and geobotanical information, and
consequently relatively homogeneous ecological conditions.
•Included in the theme is vegetation map data, mapped either as actual/existing or potential vegetation
•The bio-geographical and the potential vegetation data are regarded as reference data/maps (but mapping of existing local
vegetation needs to updating.
•Whilst high-level and pan-European data have agreed nomenclatures, for local and/regional data there is a broad variety
•Span in accuracy: bio-geographical regional data are usually at small-scale, whilst vegetation is more detailed, especially at a local
level
Scope, use examples:
•Comparisons and assessments of biodiversity and conservation, at the various levels, with detailed data used in land management
and land use planning.
•The European Bio-geographical regions are used for Natura 2000 national proposals validation.
•Knowledge about local and regional biogeographical regions, e.g. in the form of vegetation maps, may be used to identify climatic,
topographic or geological characteristics (e.g. geology is an important factor in biodiversity).
Example data:
• Bio-geographical regions Europe is divided into eleven broad bio-geographical zones (but the bio-geographical regions for the
European Seas are not finally agreed on)
• Ecological regions: the Digital Map of European Ecological Regions delineates and rescribes relatively homogeneous ecological
distinct areas in Europe
Links and overlaps with other themes:
Species distribution, Habitats and biotopes, Land cover, Geology, Soil, Mineral resources and Area management/ restriction/
regulation zones.
NatureSDIplus
Annex III
Habitats and biotopes
Description and notes:
•Biological organisms and communities/biodiversity (biotopes=spatial and biotic environment of a biocenosis, habitats=the
spatial environment of species).
•It is affected by climatic, geological, chemical and biological conditions and also can depend on management, e.g. all kinds of
cultural landscapes.
•Time series in mapping may be used to identify changes in biotopes/habitats.
•Habitats and biotopes does only include areas represented by natural boundaries, classified according to their ecological or
physical condition
•A selection of habitats has been designated according to the Habitats and Birds Directives, whilst for the marine environment it
has been done according to the OSPAR and HELCOM conventions.
•Is being documented and used for identifying biotic diversity within areas or countries, but also for planning and management
of biodiversity in natural, semi-natural and artificial environments.
•Coverage: EU Countries and Phare Countries, at scales from 1: 5000 to 1: 1.000.000
•Different documents and communities follow different nomenclatures for habitats and biotopes. Apart the Directive 92/43/EEC,
EUNIS has developed an international nomenclature for habitats, and even countries or communities classification exist.
Important feature types and attributes (both for biotopes and habitat)
Classification/Nomenclature system, category hierarchy level, category name, category code, mapping and verification date,
species/species group to which the habitat refer, site description nomenclature should as far as possible follow internationally
agreements
Links and overlaps with other themes:
Bio-geographical regions and Species distribution, Land cover, Land use, Geology, Soil and Mineral Resources.
NatureSDIplus
Annex III
Species distribution
Description:
Pan-European, national or local mapping initiatives, resulting in spatial data for species in terrestrial and marine environments, e.g.
for birds, insects, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish or vascular plants.
The INSPIRE definition focuses on aggregated versions of data about geo-distribution of species, where aggregation can be at any
level of resolution, or also point-based observations and isolines generation.
Only species are in the INSPIRE definition, but earlier documents mention also species grouped e.g. families.
Scope, use examples:
Is needed in Nature 2000
Digital data sets can be used for conservation and statistical analysis and in biodiversity assessment is essential to have
information on species distribution, quantities, development through time.
Needed for planning of protection and management of biodiversity in natural, semi-natural and artificial environments with users
as governments environmental organisations, but also managers; of high relevance to commercial exploitation of natural resources.
Scale: from 1: 5000 to 1: 10.000.000
Example data:
• Bird species distribution data (440 different breeding birds in Europe, mapped on 50 km grid squares)
• Plant species distribution data (information upon the presence of plant species in grid squares)
• Amphibian and reptile species distribution (pan-European dataset, complete for Western EU, incomplete for Eastern EU)
• Fauna Europaea (information upon the presence of fauna species in EU states, web-published with mapping capabilities)
Important feature types and attributes (surveyed in grid form or at a location):
Classification system, family scientific and vernacular name, species scientific and vernacular name, verification date of presence in
grid cell or at a location, period present throughout the year in grid cell, function (e.g. a site function for a species, (e.g. migratory,
breeding, resting or mating locality)) and status: threatened, extinct, … (IUCN-category)
Links and overlaps with other themes:
Geographical grid systems, habitats and Biotopes, biogeographical regions, protected sites
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