Table of Content Part 1: Impacts and Applications Invited Speakers Brad Allenby Culture, Sustainability, and Information Infrastructure: A Case Study in Earth Systems Engineering and Management Nevin Cohen The Environmental Impacts of E-Commerce Franz Josef Radermacher Information Society, Globalisation and Sustainable Development: Impacts on the Environment James Wilsdon Digital Futures: an agenda for a sustainable digital economy I.1 Impacts of Information and Communication Technologies H. Scott Matthews and Chris T. Hendrickson Economic and Environmental Implications of Online Retailing in the United States Eric Williams and Takashi Tagami Energy analysis of e-commerce and conventional retail distribution of books in Japan Daniel Spreng Does IT have boundless influence on energy consumption? Inge Reichart and Roland Hischier Environmental impact of electronic and print media: television, Internet newspaper and printed daily newspaper Jochem Jantzen Information technology and potential positive environmental effects thereof in processing industries I.2 The New Economy and Sustainable Devolopment P. de Jong, P. Groenewegen, H. Brezet, S. Sylvester The Shift of a Product Oriented Economy towards a Services and Knowledge Economy: challenges for environmentally inspired Development of Service Systems? Klaus Fichter Sustainable Business Strategies in the Internet Economy I.3 Shaping a Sustainable Information Society I Thomas Schauer IST and Sustainable Development - the Market of Illusions Ralf Isenmann Basic Ethical Framework: Guidance for Environmental Informatics towards a Sustainable Information Society Stephen Simmons Attacking Material Consumption Dietlinde Quack and Carl-Otto Gensch Potential for reducing environmental impacts by means of dematerialization, exemplified by Deutsche Telekoms virtual telephone-call manager, the »T-NetBox« Thomas Christaller und Michael Paetau Informed Sustainability: Autonomy and Knowledge for Sustainable Development I.4 Shaping a Sustainable Information Society II Milda Hedblom Sustainability, Conflict Management and International Telecommunications Development Maik Adomßent Do Information Society Technologies support the participation principles of sustainability? Oliver Märker, Annika Poppenborg, Matthias Trénel, Angi Voss Online mediation as a tool of public knowledge management for shaping a sustainable information society Torsten Graap Does Virtual Learning lead to Sustainability? A Critical Approach I.5 Structural and Behavioural Change Uwe Schneidewind and Anke Truscheit Virtual Eco-Communities Alberto Pasquini, Chiara Ricci and Lorenzo Vicario Derivation of Indicators for the Environmental Impact of the Information and Communication Technology Daniel Z. Sui and Don T. Phillips Modeling the Environmental Impacts of E-commerce using SmartCost: Some initial results Noriko Yoda and Shunsuke Mori An Empirical Analysis of IT Investments and their Impacts on the Industrial Structure in Japan - an Application of Extended Principal Component for Regression and Input-Output Tables A.1 Environmental Information Systems I Tom Klingl and Raymond Delarze GIS-Based Swiss National Inventories Nature and Landscape in the Context of the European Nature Informations System (EUNIS) Kyehyun Kim Building a GIS-based Environment Information System for a Land Reclamation Project A.2 Risk and Emergency Management P. Blancher, R. Konieczny, G. Taliercio, T. Tyszka, M. Erlich A proper understanding of society and social processes at the heart of the design of an information system for the management of inundation risks: the OSIRIS project approach Fiorella Lamberti, Marco Folino and Federico Rossi FORMIDABLE: An advanced tool for the Information Management of Natural Disasters Bernhard Brabec, Roland Meister, Urs Stöckli, Andreas Stoffel and Thomas Stucki A Decision Support System for Regional Avalanche Forecasting Tatjana Dovbysheva Use of Informatics for Risk Assessment A.3 Public Access to Environmental Information Hannes Kleindienst, Tom Klingl and Heidi Krapf Public access to environmental information Gerlinde Knetsch Integrating environmental data across disciplines against the background of the Århus Convention Per Henrik Johansen, Kostas Karatzas, Jon Erik Lindberg, Gertraud Peine and Thomas Rose Citizen-Centred Information Dissemination with Multimodal Information Channels A.5 Environmental and Sustainability Management Thomas Mayer Software for the Material Flow Management - Market Overview and Practical Insights Wolfgang Scheide, Markus Strobel, Stefan Enzler, R. Pfennig and H. Krcmar Flow Cost Accounting in Practice - ERP-Based Solutions of the ECO-Rapid-Project Jürg Hutter Environmental Management Information Systems (EMIS) or the Integration of the Corporate Environmental Department into ERP Olaf Weger, Patrick Henseler, Luca Bongulielmi, Herbert Birkhofer and Markus Meier The interchange of environmentally related information - a prerequisite for the next generation of LCA-tools Anders Arpteg, Reine Karlsson, Wlodek Kulesza, Conrad Luttropp and Linus de Petris Knowledge Management for Reuse of Disassembly Information in EcoDesign Nurten Avci, Jutta Geldermann and Otto Rentz Implementation and development of an Internet based information exchange network between EU-member states, the European Commission and small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) Jirí Hrebícek Environmental Decision Support System for Environmental Performance Evaluation A.6 Energy, CO2 and Climate Maurizio Tomassini, Hermann-Josef Heich Environmental Assessment of Transport Demand Management Strategies in European Cities Gregor Dürrenberger and Christoph Hartmann Modelling Regional Energy Consumption and CO2 Emissions: An Information and Scenario Tool for Practitioners Christoph Schlenzig and Thomas Steidle MESAP - A Co-operative Modelling System for Sustainable Local Energy and Environmental Planning A.7 Water Management Matthias Schneider, Klaus Jorde, Frank Zöllner and Franz Kerle Development of a user-friendly software for ecological investigations on river systems, integration of a fuzzy rule-based approach Charlotte Kämpf, Peter Oberle and Jürgen Ihringer River Basin Management: Simulation of GIS-based Flooding Scenarios and Interactive Web Dialogues Saso Dzeroski and Jasna Grbovic Relating Biodiversity of River Communities to Physical and Chemical Water Properties Vera Munteanu The Republic of Moldova and Eurowaternet: Actual state and future implementation A.8 Environmental Monitoring Marco Neubert Segment-based analysis of high resolution satellite and laser scanning data Zoheir A. Sabeur, Mitchell C. Hockley, Alessandra Bagnato and Marco Iardella BlueWater: A Slick Monitoring System Based on Image Processing, Statistical Classification and Predictive Modelling in the Marine Environment Paola Carrara and Anna Rampini An event-based archive of soft maps for the analysis of glacier changes Gotthard Meinel, Michael Winkler and Carlo Lavalle Indicators for the spatial analysis of settlement and open land trends in urban areas - studies on base of five European cities over a 50-year period A.9 Environmental Information Systems II Hannu Saarenmaa Towards a shared European environmental information infrastructure Michael Stauffacher, Sandro Bösch and Roland W. Scholz From environmental information systems to social networks: fostering co-operation in the ETH-UNS Case Study for sustainable regional development Tom Arbuckle, Stefan Schröder, Volker Steinhage and Dieter Wittmann Biodiversity Informatics in Action: Identification and Monitoring of Bee Species using ABIS Jadranka Pecar-Ilic and Ivica Ruzic Dynamic Web Application for Temporal and Spatial Presentation of Environmental Data Miroslav Lacuska, Alexander Jancarik, Jirí Hrebícek, Jan Sluka Waste Management Information System of the Slovak Republic A.10 Environmental Decision Making and Knowledge Management Albrecht Gnauck Model based DSS for water quality management of river basins Ulrik Westman, Katrin Ottosson and Ylva Rönning Planning with environmental objectives Klaus Tochtermann and Wolf-Fritz Riekert Hypermedia in Environmental Protection - Promoting Knowledge Management Technologies in a Thematic Network Frank Scholles, Dieter Wagner and Peter D. Wagner The database «Environmental Quality Objectives» and Its Web-based distribution Olaf Tietje A system representation and evaluation model based on object-oriented design A.11 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) R. Kündig, A. Baumeler, R. Giger, S. Neuenschwander and V. Dietrich The Swiss Geotechnical Environmental Atlas - a new multmedia tool U. Voges terraSeek - OpenGIS basierter Katalog Dienst für Geodaten und Geoservices Part II: Methods / Workshop Papers M.1 Environmental Information Systems Architecture H. Neumann, G. Schuster, H. Stuckenschmidt, U. Visser, T. Vögele and H. Wache Intelligent Brokering of Environmental Information with the BUSTER System Wassili Kazakos, Andreas Schmid and Heiko Paoli XML based Virtual Catalogue Module in CoastBase Matteo Villa, Michel Girin and Paul Taylor MERMAID: Marine Environmental Response data Management and Acquisition using Internet Data brokerage Werner F. Schulz and Bernd Gutterer The Internet-Platform oekoradar.de - Interface between Science and Business in the field of Corporate Sustainable Management Joost van Bemmelen, Martine Couturier, Katia Fabbri, Fiorella Lamberti and Daniel Söderman CLIFF - CLuster Initiative for Flood and Fire emergencies Peter Jakob, Luzi Bernhard, Gustav Schneiter and Flurin Sutter Environmental Data Processing: Science meets Business Engineering Marco Laumanns, Eckart Zitzler and Lothar Thiele Multiple criteria decision support by evolutionary computation Martin Breunig and Serge Shumilov Preparing a New Generation of Environmental Information Systems M.2 Measuring Sustainability Nguyen Xuan Thinh, Günter Arlt, Bernd Heber, Jörg Hennersdorf, Iris Lehmann Pin-pointing sustainable urban land-use structures with the aid of GIS and cluster analysis Paul A. Draghi GIS, History and Sustainability in German-speaking Europe Melanie Herget and Ildiko Tulbure Measuring Sustainable Development: The Use of Fuzzy Logic Christof Herzog, Friedel Hosenfeld and Jan Barkmann The web-based DSS 'eXpert21': Support for the Selection of Sustainable Development Indicators M.3 Environmental Statistics Anders Grimvall, Hans Wackernagel and Christian Lajaunie Normalisation of Environmental Quality Data Nguyen Chi Quang and Dinh Lan Anh Intergrated GIS - Geostatistics System for Environmental Modelling M.4 Modelling and Simulation Marco Ratto and Stefano Tarantola Sensitivity analysis techniques for calibration and reduction of environmental models Lena Danius and Fredrik Burström Regional material flow analysis and data uncertainties: Can the results be trusted? Marcel Endejan Metadata in Integrated Assessment Models - Needs and Concept André J. Rogger, Frank A. Hartmann, Rainer Zah, Thomas F. Ruddy and Lorenz M. Hilty Optimization Strategies for Transportation Systems Using Mobile Telecommunications Michael Sonnenschein and Ute Vogel Asymmetric cellular automata for the modelling of ecological systems Birgitta Krüger Evaluation of the Material Flow of Primary Aluminium - The Contribution of the ISAL Information System Patrick Wäger, Paul W. Gilgen and Heinrich Widmer A Dynamic Model for the Assessment of Plastics Waste Disposal Options Saso Dzeroski and Ljupco Todorovski Integrating knowledge-based and data-driven modeling of population dynamics M.5 Environmental Metadata Thomas Pick, Ebbe Kvist and Kirste Lounama Environmental Metadata - Doing It The Dublin Core Way? Thomas Bandholtz Sustainability of Environmental Information Stefan Göbel and Uwe Jasnoch Development of a semantic network for environmental geodata Kristina Voigt and Gerhard Welzl Evaluation of Search Engines Concerning Environmental Terms M.6 Integrating Environmental Information Paolo Plini, Sandra Lucke, Claudio Baffioni and Bruno Felluga T-REKS©: a Contribution to the Environmental Information Management through a Computer-Supported Modular Knowledge Organisation System for the Environment Rolf Frischknecht Life cycle inventory modelling in the Swiss national database ECOINVENT 2000 W.1 Workshop: Online Mediation Ludwig Arentz and Ulrich Schaaf Environmental Permission for Industrial Plants affecting the Environment - Participation of Applicants in the Discussion Process Pravir Chawdhry, David Norheim and Marc Wilikens A Data Model for Next Generation Online Dispute - Resolution Systems for Cross-border E-Commerce Alan Gaitenby Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) and Social Space(s): Information exchange and human interaction Tom Gordon and Oliver Märker Mediation Systems M. Hare, N. Gilbert, D. Medugno, T. Asakawa, J. Heeb and C. Pahl-Wostl The development of an internet forum for long-term participatory group learning about problems and solutions to sustainable urban water supply management Aldo de Moor and Rolf Kleef Authoring Tools for Effective Societal Discourse Rinaldo Sali Online dispute resolution: new model for e-consumers and e-companies Gerard Vreeswijk Beating the Brains: Self-regulation and Emergence of Content in Electonic Conferencing W.2 Workshop: Simulation in den Umwelt- und Geowissenschaften Jochen Wittmann Simulation in den Umwelt- und Geowissenschaften - Grundprobleme und aktuelle Lösungsansätze Markus Knoflacher und Andreas Resetarits Berücksichtigung von Komplexität in Umweltinformationssystemen Albrecht Gnauck Modellierung und Simulation der Wassergüte eines Fliessgewässerökosystems Sven Graehl, Wolf Fichtner, Mathias Göbelt, Michael Frank und Otto Rentz Entwicklung eines optimierenden Energie- und Stoffflussmodells zur Analyse von Klimaschutzprojekten anhand von Nachhaltigkeitsindikatoren (03/07/2001) Hans-Peter Bader, Markus Real, Ruth Scheidegger und Peter Baccini Grossmassstäbliche Einführung von Solarzellen: Dynamische Modellierung von Energie und Stoffflüssen Sandra Lander und Günter Fleischer Systemdynamische Analyse von Kreislaufwirtschaftssystemen - Ökonomische und ökologische Untersuchung am Beispiel der Altauto-Verwertung mittels des System Dynamics-Ansatzes Frank Köster und Jörg Friebe Räumlich explizite Simulationen zur Analyse von Umweltsystemen - am Beispiel der Kopplung von i EpiSim und InterGis Lars Bernard, Ulrich Klein und Andreas Wytzisk Eine HLA/OpenGIS basierte Servicearchitektur zur Abbildung raumzeitlicher Prozesse Ruth Meyer Ein Framework für agentenbasierte Simulation mit räumlich expliziter Umgebung W.3 Workshop: The Rebound Effect in the Information Society Francois Schneider, Friedrich Hinterberger, Roman Mesicek and Fred Luks ECO-INFO-SOCIETY: Strategies for an Ecological Information Society Jari Kaivo-oja and Teemu Haukioja Externalities and the Development of the Information Society and Technology: Searching for New Emerging Internalising Potentials Alfred W. Strigl Limits and options for sustaining technological development through systems renewal Andrius Plepys The ICT role in resource conservation and rebound effects Horace Herring The Rebound Effect, Sustainable Consumption and Electronic Appliances W.4 Workshop: Umweltinformationssysteme Michael Haase, Günter Barnikel, Michael Fischer, Markus Moser, Manfred Müller und Andreas Stegmaier GIS-unterstützte Erstellung von Gewässerentwicklungskonzepten Dirk Görtzen Entwicklung eines Verteilten Behördlichen Umweltinformationssystems für den Technischen Gewässerschutz in Schleswig-Holstein Bettina Over und Marion Voss GIS-basiertes Flächenkataster als entscheidungsunterstützendes System für den umweltverträglichen Einsatz von Sekundärrohstoffdüngern in der Landwirtschaft Jens Fitzke Verwaltung von Raumbezügen in Informationssystemen für den Umwelt- und Naturschutz Volkmar Triestram, Matthias Horn und Hermann Leeb IMIS-Migration: Integriertes Mess- und Informationssystem für Radioaktivität in der Umwelt Ivan Seder, Ronny Weinkauf und Torsten Schülert Verfügbarkeit und Performance des Web-basierten UIS für kommunale Verwaltungen und Bürger Fred Kruse und Marco Eichler Der Windows UDK 4.3 auf Basis der SOAP-Technologie Frank Iden Einheitliche Zugriffsmethoden in einer heterogenen Systemlandschaft Markus Müller Entwurf einer Theorie umweltbezogener Metadatenverarbeitung Christof Herzog IeMAX. Das fuzzy logic-gestützte Umweltbewertungssystem W.6 Workshop: Getting beyond the Digital Divide Thomas F. Ruddy A European Perspective on the Global Digital Divide and International Development Cooperation - A Workshop Introduction W.7 Workshop: Environmental Education Tanja Schellenberg and M. Classen E-learning and Environmental Issues Lew Gerbilsky, Olena Staroseletska and Lilia Tissen Integrating environmental informatics and environmental education for sustainable development Brendan Barrett and Atsushi Kuroda Application of Internet Technologies to Environmental Monitoring and Education at the Local Level in Japan Ulrich D. Holzbaur EcoGames - Simulation Games and Sustainable Development Martin Cocks, Derek Keats, Richard Knight and P. Saravanakumar Internet solutions for integrating and visualizing environmental information Ulrich Bosler and Martin Schreiber The Environmental German-Czech Project: Schools for a Living River Elbe. From River Data Collection to its Presentation in an Internet based School-Elbe-GIS W.8 Workshop: Betriebliche Umweltinformationssysteme René Treibert Integration von Umwelt-, Qualitäts- und Sicherheitsmanagement - eine Herausforderung für betriebliche Umweltinformationssysteme.
Bericht vom 10. Workshop der GI-Fachgruppe BUIS Volker Wohlgemuth, Linda Bruns und Bernd Page Simulation als Ansatz zur ökologischen und ökonomischen Planungsunterstützung im Kontext betrieblicher Umweltinformationssysteme (BUIS) Hans-Knud Arndt, Oliver Günther und H. Pluskat Verwaltung von umweltmanagementbezogenen Wissensinhalten mit dem EcoExplorer System Eberhard K. Seifert Konzeption und Anwendungen des ISO 14031-Standards zur Umweltleistungsbewertung (EPE) im Kontext neuerer Entwicklungen zur Umweltberichterstattung Mario Krüger, Jorge Marx-Gómez und Claus Rautenstrauch Entwicklung einer Dokumenttypdefinition für eine automatisierte Umweltberichterstattung auf der Basis von XML Michael Haase, Katrin Pursche, Burkhard Schneider, Iris Blankenhorn und Andreas Henseler Ein System zur Vorgangsunterstützung für die Archivierung von Umweltrechtsdokumenten
Lorenz M Hilty
Hypermedia Informatics for Environmental Protection Information System New Economy