Sustainabilityin the Information Society15th International Symposium Informatics forEnvironmental Protection, Zurich 2001

Lorenz M. Hilty, Paul W. Gilgen (Eds.)

Part 1: Impacts and Applications

Metropolis Verlag

Marburg 2001

Table of Contents

Part I: Impacts and Applications

Invited Speakers

Brad AllenbyCulture, Sustainability, and Information Infrastructure: A Case Study in EarthSystems Engineering and Management 27

Nevin CohenThe Environmental Impacts of E-Commerce 41

Franz Josef RadermacherInformation Society, Globalisation and Sustainable Development:Impacts on the Environment 53

James WilsdonDigital Futures: an agenda for a sustainable digital economy 58

I.I Impacts of Information and Communication Technologies

H. Scott Matthews and Chris T. HendricksonEconomic and Environmental Implications of Online Retailing in theUnited States 65

Eric Williams and Takashi TagamiEnergy analysis of e-commerce and conventional retail distributionof books in Japan 73

Daniel SprengDoes IT have boundless influence on energy consumption? 81

Inge Reichart and Roland HischierEnvironmental impact of electronic and print media: television, Internetnewspaper and printed daily newspaper 91

Jochem JantzenInformation technology and potential positive environmental effects thereofin processing industries 99

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1.2 The New Economy and Sustainable Development

P. de Jong, P. Groenewegen, H. Brezet, S. SylvesterThe Shift of a Product Oriented Economy towards a Services and KnowledgeEconomy: challenges for environmentally inspired Development of ServiceSystems? 107

Klaus FichterSustainable Business Strategies in the Internet Economy 109

1.3 Shaping a Sustainable Information Society I

Thomas Schauer1ST and Sustainable Development - the Market of Illusions 119

RalflsenmannBasic Ethical Framework: Guidance for Environmental Informatics towardsa Sustainable Information Society 127

Stephen SimmonsAttacking Material Consumption 135

Dietlinde Quack and Carl-Otto GenschPotential for reducing environmental impacts by means of dematerialization,exemplified by Deutsche Telekom's virtual telephone-call manager, the"T-NetBox" 143

Thomas Chris taller und Michael PaetauInformed Sustainability: Autonomy and Knowledge for Sustainable Development. 151

1.4 Shaping a Sustainable Information Society II

Milda HedblomSustainability, Conflict Management and International TelecommunicationsDevelopment 159

Maik AdomfientDo Information Society Technologies support the participation principlesof sustainability? 161

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Oliver Marker, Annika Poppenborg, Matthias Tre'nel, Angi VossOnline mediation as a tool of public knowledge management for shaping asustainable information society 167

Torsten GraapDoes Virtual Learning lead to Sustainability? A Critical Approach 173

1.5 Structural and Behavioural Change

Uwe Schneidewind and Anke TruscheitVirtual Eco-Communities 179

Alberto Pasquini, Chiara Ricci and Lorenzo VicarioDerivation of Indicators for the Environmental Impact of the Informationand Communication Technology 185

Daniel Z. Sui and Don T PhillipsModeling the Environmental Impacts of E-commerce using SmartCost:Some initial results 193

Noriko Yoda and Shunsuke MoriAn Empirical Analysis of IT Investments and their Impacts on the IndustrialStructure in Japan - an Application of Extended Principal Component forRegression and Input-Output Tables 201

A.I Environmental Information Systems I

Tom Klingl and Raymond DelarzeGIS-Based Swiss National Inventories Nature and Landscape in the Contextof the European Nature Informations System (EUNIS) 207

Kyehyun KimBuilding a GIS-based Environment Information System for a LandReclamation Project 215

A.2 Risk and Emergency Management

P. Blancher, R. Konieczny, G. Taliercio, T. Tyszka, M. ErlichA proper understanding of society and social processes at the heart of the designof an information system for the management of inundation risks: the OSIRISproject approach 221

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Fiorella Lamberti, Marco Folino and Federico RossiFORMIDABLE: An advanced tool for the Information Managementof Natural Disasters 229

Bernhard Brabec, Roland Meister, Urs Stockli, Andreas Stoffeland Thomas StuckiA Decision Support System for Regional Avalanche Forecasting 237

Tatjana DovbyshevaUse of Informatics for Risk Assessment 247

A.3 Public Access to Environmental Information

Hannes Kleindienst, Tom Klingl and Heidi KrapfPublic access to environmental information 255

Gerlinde KnetschIntegrating environmental data across disciplines against the backgroundof the Arhus Convention 265

Per Henrik Johansen, Kostas Karatzas, Jon Erik Lindberg, Gertraud Peineand Thomas RoseCitizen-Centred Information Dissemination with Multimodal InformationChannels 271

A.5 Environmental and Sustainability Management

Thomas MayerSoftware for the Material Flow Management - Market Overview andPractical Insights 279

Wolfgang Scheide, Markus Strobel, Stefan Enzler, R. Pfennig and H. KrcmarFlow Cost Accounting in Practice - ERP-Based Solutions of the ECO-Rapid-Project 287

Jiirg Hutter

Environmental Management Information Systems (EMIS) or the Integrationof the Corporate Environmental Department into ERP 297

Olaf Weger, Patrick Henseler, Luca Bongulielmi, Herbert Birkhoferand Markus MeierThe interchange of environmentally related information - a prerequisitefor the next generation of LCA-tools 303

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Anders Arpteg, Reine Karlsson, Wlodek Kulesza, ConradLuttropp andLinus de Petris

Knowledge Management for Reuse of Disassembly Information in EcoDesign 309

Nurten Avci, Jutta Geldermann and Otto RentzImplementation and development of an Internet based information exchangenetwork between EU-member states, the European Commission and smalland medium-sized enterprises (SME) 315

Jiri HfebicekEnvironmental Decision Support System for Environmental PerformanceEvaluation 321

A.6 Energy, CO2 and Climate

Maurizio Tomassini, Hermann-Josef HeichEnvironmental Assessment of Transport Demand Management Strategies inEuropean Cities 327

Gregor Diirrenberger and Christoph HartmannModelling Regional Energy Consumption and CO2 Emissions: An Informationand Scenario Tool for Practitioners 335

Christoph Schlenzig and Thomas SteidleMESAP - A Co-operative Modelling System for Sustainable Local Energy andEnvironmental Planning 344

A.7 Water Management

Matthias Schneider, Klaus Jorde, Frank Zollner and Franz KerleDevelopment of a user-friendly software for ecological investigations on riversystems, integration of a fuzzy rule-based approach 354

Charlotte Kdmpf Peter Oberle and Jiirgen IhringerRiver Basin Management: Simulation of GIS-based Flooding Scenarios andInteractive Web Dialogues 361

Saso Dzeroski and Jasna GrbovicRelating Biodiversity of River Communities to Physical and Chemical WaterProperties 367

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Vera MunteanuThe Republic of Moldova and Eurowaternet: Actual state and futureimplementation 373

A.8 Environmental Monitoring

Marco NeubertSegment-based analysis of high resolution satellite and laser scanning data 379

Zoheir A. Sabeur, Mitchell C. Hockley, Alessandra Bagnato and Marco lardellaBlueWater: A Slick Monitoring System Based on Image Processing, StatisticalClassification and Predictive Modelling in the Marine Environment 387

Paola Carrara and Anna RampiniAn event-based archive of soft maps for the analysis of glacier changes 395

Gotthard Meinel, Michael Winkler and Carlo LavalleIndicators 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 403

A.9 Environmental Information Systems II

Hannu SaarenmaaTowards a shared European environmental information infrastructure 411

Michael Stauffacher, Sandro Bosch and Roland W. ScholzFrom environmental information systems to social networks: fosteringco-operation in the ETH-UNS Case Study for sustainable regional development ....419

Tom Arbuckle, Stefan Schroder, Volker Steinhage and Dieter WittmannBiodiversity Informatics in Action: Identification and Monitoring of Bee Speciesusing ABIS 425

Jadranka Pecar-Ilic and Ivica RuzicDynamic Web Application for Temporal and Spatial Presentation ofEnvironmental Data 431

Miroslav Lacuska, Alexander Jancdrik, Jifi Hfebicek, Jan SlukaWaste Management Information System of the Slovak Republic 437

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A.10 Environmental Decision Making and Knowledge Management

Albrecht GnauckModel based DSS for water quality management of river basins 443

Ulrik Westman, Katrin Ottosson and Ylva RonningPlanning with environmental objectives 451

Klaus Tochtermann and Wolf-Fritz RiekertHypermedia in Environmental Protection - Promoting Knowledge ManagementTechnologies in a Thematic Network 459

Frank Scholles, Dieter Wagner and Peter D. WagnerThe database «Environmental Quality Objectives» and ItsWeb-based distribution 465

OlafTietjeA system representation and evaluation model based on object-oriented design 471

A. 11 Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

R. Ktindig, A. Baumeler, R. Giger, S. Neuenschwander and V. DietrichThe Swiss Geotechnical Environmental Atlas - a new multmedia tool 477

U. VogesterraSeek - OpenGIS basierter Katalog Dienst fur Geodaten und Geoservices 484

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Part II: Methods / Workshop Papers

M.I Environmental Information Systems Architecture

H. Neumann, G. Schuster, H. Stuckenschmidt, U. Visser, T. Vogele and H. WacheIntelligent Brokering of Environmental Information with the BUSTER System 505

Wassili Kazakos, Andreas Schmid and Heiko PaoliXML based Virtual Catalogue Module in CoastBase 513

Matteo Villa, Michel Girin and Paul TaylorMERMAID: Marine Environmental Response data Management andAcquisition using Internet Data brokerage 521

Werner F. Schulz and Bernd GuttererThe Internet-Platform oekoradar.de - Interface between Science andBusiness in the field of Corporate Sustainable Management 527

Joost van Bemmelen, Martine Couturier, Katia Fabbri, Fiorella Lambertiand Daniel SodermanCLIFF - CLuster Initiative for Flood and Fire emergencies 535

Peter Jakob, Luzi Bernhard, Gustav Schneiter and Flurin SutlerEnvironmental Data Processing: Science meets Business Engineering 541

Marco Laumanns, Eckart Zitzler and Lothar ThieleMultiple criteria decision support by evolutionary computation 547

Martin Breunig and Serge ShumilovPreparing a New Generation of Environmental Information Systems 553

M.2 Measuring Sustainability

Nguyen Xuan Thinh, Giinter Arlt, Bernd Heber, Jorg Hennersdorf Iris LehmannPin-pointing sustainable urban land-use structures with the aid of GIS andcluster analysis 559

Paul A. DraghiGIS, History and Sustainability in German-speaking Europe 568

Melanie Herget and Ildiko TulbureMeasuring Sustainable Development: The Use of Fuzzy Logic 571

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Christoj Herzog, Friedel Hosenfeld and Jan BarkmannThe web-based DSS ,eXpert21': Support for the Selection of SustainableDevelopment Indicators 577

M.3 Environmental Statistics

Anders Grimvall, Hans Wackernagel and Christian LajaunieNormalisation of Environmental Quality Data 583

Nguyen Chi Quang and Dinh Lan AnhIntergrated GIS - Geostatistics System for Environmental Modelling 591

M.4 Modelling and Simulation

Marco Ratto and Stefano TarantolaSensitivity analysis techniques for calibration and reduction ofenvironmental models 602

Lena Danius and Fredrik BurstromRegional material flow analysis and data uncertainties:Can the results be trusted? 609

Marcel EndejanMetadata in Integrated Assessment Models - Needs and Concept 617

Andre J. Rogger, Frank A. Hartmann, Rainer Zah, Thomas F. Ruddy andLorenz M. HiltyOptimization Strategies for Transportation Systems Using MobileTelecommunications 623

Michael Sonnenschein and Ute VogelAsymmetric cellular automata for the modelling of ecological systems 631

Birgitta KriigerEvaluation of the Material Flow of Primary Aluminium - The Contributionof the ISAL Information System 637

Patrick Wager, Paul W. Gilgen and Heinrich WidmerA Dynamic Model for the Assessment of Plastics Waste Disposal Options 645

Saso Dzeroski and Ljupco TodorovskiIntegrating knowledge-based and data-driven modeling of population dynamics ....653

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M.5 Environmental Metadata

Thomas Pick, Ebbe Kvist and Kirste LounamaEnvironmental Metadata - Doing It The Dublin Core Way? 659

Thomas BandholtzSustainability of Environmental Information 671

Stefan Gobel and Uwe JasnochDevelopment of a semantic network for environmental geodata 679

Kristina Voigt and Gerhard WelzlEvaluation of Search Engines Concerning Environmental Terms 685

M.6 Integrating Environmental Information

Paolo Plini, Sandra Lucke, Claudio Baffioni and Bruno FellugaT-REKS®: a Contribution to the Environmental Information Managementthrough a Computer-Supported Modular Knowledge Organisation Systemfor the Environment 692

Rolf FrischknechtLife cycle inventory modelling in the Swiss nationaldatabase ECOINVENT 2000 699

W.I Workshop: Online Mediation

Ludwig Arentz and Ulrich SchaafEnvironmental Permission for Industrial Plants affecting the Environment -Participation of Applicants in the Discussion Process 709

Pravir Chawdhry, David Norheim and Marc WilikensA Data Model for Next Generation Online Dispute - Resolution Systemsfor Cross-border E-Commerce 717

Alan GaitenbyOnline Dispute Resolution (ODR) and Social Space(s):Information exchange and human interaction 729

Tom Gordon and Oliver MarkerMediation Systems 737

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M. Hare, N. Gilbert, D. Medugno, T. Asakawa, J. Heeb and C. Pahl-WostlThe development of an internet forum for long-term participatory group learningabout problems and solutions to sustainable urban water supply management 743

Aldo de Moor and RolfKleefAuthoring Tools for Effective Societal Discourse 751

Rinaldo SaliOnline dispute resolution: new model for e-consumers and e-companies 757

Gerard VreeswijkBeating the Brains: Self-regulation and Emergence of Content in ElectonicConferencing 762

W.2 Workshop: Simulation in den Umwelt- und Geowissenschaften

Jochen WittmannSimulation in den Umwelt- und Geowissenschaften - Grundproblemeund aktuelle Losungsansatze 769

Markus Knoflacher und Andreas ResetaritsBeriicksichtigung von Komplexitat in Umweltinformationssystemen 777

Albrecht GnauckModellierung und Simulation der Wassergiite eines Fliessgewasserokosystems 785

Sven Graehl, Wolf Fichtner, Mathias Gobelt, Michael Frank und Otto RentzEntwicklung eines optimierenden Energie- und Stofffiussmodells zur Analysevon Klimaschutzprojekten anhand von Nachhaltigkeitsindikatoren (03/07/2001 )....791

Hans-Peter Bader, Markus Real, Ruth Scheidegger und Peter BacciniGrossmassstabliche Einfiihrung von Solarzellen: Dynamische Modellierungvon Energie und Stofffliissen 797

Sandra Lander und Giinter FleischerSystemdynamische Analyse von Kreislaufwirtschaftssystemen - Okonomischeund okologische Untersuchung am Beispiel der Altauto-Verwertung mittels desSystem Dynamics-Ansatzes 803

Frank Koster und Jorg FriebeRaumlich explizite Simulationen zur Analyse von Umweltsystemen -am Beispiel der Kopplung von i-EPlSlM und INTERGIS 811

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Lars Bernard, Ulrich Klein und Andreas WytziskEine HLA/OpenGIS basierte Servicearchitektur zur Abbildungraumzeitlicher Prozesse 818

Ruth MeyerEin Framework fur agentenbasierte Simulation mit raumlichexpliziter Umgebung 825

W.3 Workshop: The Rebound Effect in the Information Society

Francois Schneider, Friedrich Hinterberger, Roman Mesicek and Fred LuksECO-INFO-SOCIETY: Strategies for an Ecological Information Society 831

Jari Kaivo-oja and Teemu HaukiojaExternalities and the Development of the Information Society and Technology:Searching for New Emerging Internalising Potentials 839

Alfred W. StriglLimits and options for sustaining technological development through systemsrenewal 847

Andrius PlepysThe ICT role in resource conservation and rebound effects 859

Horace HerringThe Rebound Effect, Sustainable Consumption and Electronic Appliances 870

W.4 Workshop: Umweltinformationssysteme

Michael Haase, Giinter Barnikel, Michael Fischer, Markus Moser,Manfred Miiller und Andreas StegmaierGlS-untersttitzte Erstellung von Gewasserentwicklungskonzepten 877

Dirk GortzenEntwicklung eines Verteilten Behordlichen Umweltinformationssystems fur denTechnischen Gewasserschutz in Schleswig-Holstein 883

Bettina Over und Marion VossGIS-basiertes Flachenkataster als entscheidungsunterstiitzendes Systemfur den umweltvertraglichen Einsatz von Sekundarrohstoffdiingernin der Landwirtschaft 891

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Jens FitzkeVerwaltung von Raumbeziigen in Informationssystemen fur den Umwelt-und Naturschutz 897

Volkmar Triestram, Matthias Horn und Hermann LeebIMIS-Migration: Integriertes Mess- und Informationssystem fiir Radioaktivitatin der Umwelt 903

Ivan Seder, Ronny Weinkaufund Torsten SchulertVerfugbarkeit und Performance des Web-basierten UIS fur kommunaleVerwaltungen und Burger 909

Fred Kruse und Marco EichlerDer Windows UDK 4.3 auf Basis der SOAP-Technologie 915

Frank IdenEinheitliche Zugriffsmethoden in einer heterogenen Systemlandschaft 921

Markus Mu'llerEntwurf einer Theorie umweltbezogener Metadatenverarbeitung 927

Christof HerzogIeMAX. Das fuzzy logic-gestiitzte Umweltbewertungssystem 933

W.6 Workshop: Getting beyond the Digital Divide

Thomas F. RuddyA European Perspective on the Global Digital Divide and InternationalDevelopment Cooperation - A Workshop Introduction 939

W.7 Workshop: Environmental Education

Tanja Schellenberg and M. ClassenE-learning and Environmental Issues 949

Lew Gerbilsky, Olena Staroseletska and Lilia TissenIntegrating environmental informatics and environmental educationfor sustainable development 957

Brendan Barrett and Atsushi KurodaApplication of Internet Technologies to Environmental Monitoringand Education at the Local Level in Japan 964

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Ulrich D. HolzbaurEcoGames - Simulation Games and Sustainable Development 971

Martin Cocks, Derek Keats, Richard Knight and P. SaravanakumarInternet solutions for integrating and visualizing environmental information 979

Ulrich Bosler and Martin SchreiberThe Environmental German-Czech Project: Schools for a Living River Elbe.From River Data Collection to its Presentation in an Internetbased School-Elbe-GIS 987

W.8 Workshop: Betriebliche Umweltinformationssysteme

Rene TreibertIntegration von Umwelt-, Qualitats- und Sicherheitsmanagement - eineHerausforderung fur betriebliche Umweltinformationssysteme.Bericht vom 10. Workshop der GI-Fachgruppe BUIS 992

Volker Wohlgemuth, Linda Bruns und Bernd PageSimulation als Ansatz zur okologischen und okonomischenPlanungsunterstiitzung im Kontext betrieblicherUmweltinformationssysteme (BUIS) 999

Hans-Knud Arndt, Oliver Gunther und H. PluskatVerwaltung von umweltmanagementbezogenen Wissensinhaltenmit dem EcoExplorer System 1009

EberhardK. SeifertKonzeption und Anwendungen des ISO 14031 -Standards zurUmweltleistungsbewertung (EPE) im Kontext neuerer Entwicklungenzur Umweltberichterstattung 1015

Mario Kriiger, Jorge Marx-Gomez und Claus RautenstrauchEntwicklung einer Dokumenttypdefinition fur eine automatisierteUmweltberichterstattung auf der Basis von XML 1016

Michael Haase, Katrin Pursche, Burkhard Schneider, Iris Blankenhorn undAndreas HenselerEin System zur Vorgangsunterstutzung fur die Archivierung vonUmweltrechtsdokumenten 1028

Poster URL Index 1032

Author Index 1034