The Role of Taxonomy and Ontology in Semantic Layers - Heather Hedden.pdf
Marta Perez Soba
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4. Wageningen UR & SENSOR project
Marta Pérez-Soba
ALTERRA Wageningen UR
São Carlo Engineer School, University of São Paulo, 13 April 2010
5. Wageningen UR
Research
– Unique chain of knowledge
– From academic to applied
– Top 3: Plant & Animal Sci, Agricultral Sci & Ecology and
environment
– Top 100 universities
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7. Relevant trends
Increasing world population and wealth
– Increasing demand for food
– Growing demand for safe and healthy nutrition
– Reduction of the (pressure) on natural
resources such as water
– More pressure on environment, land usage
and nature
Scarcity of sweet water and energy
Competing claims: Food of Energy
Growing concern over climatic changes
Concern over global infectious diseases
(animals/humans)
Higher life-expectancy of Western
population, global high birth-rate
Increasing urbanisation and population
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8. The Wageningen approach:
biological and social
Planet Society
institutions
Policy & limiting conditions
Ecosystem Community
Organism technologies Household
Products
Cell
Individual
Gene/ Molecule Gene/ Molecule
planet profit people 8
9. Investing in new themes
Themes for society
– Bio-based economy (use of biomass)
– Climate resistent coastal areas
– Food, Health, Behaviour
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10. Investing in fields of expertise
Themes for society
– Bio-based economy (use of biomass)
– Climate resistent coastal areas
– Food, Health, Behaviour
Enabling science and technology
– Bio-nanotechnology (for food)
– Systems biology (i.r.t. genomics)
– Linking scales and governance
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11. Co-innovation
Entrepreneurs
Research CO- INNOVATION Stakeholders
Education
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12. Wageningen UR
Management Board
3500 3000
Wageningen staff staff
Agricultural
University 5000
Research Service
students
Dept. of Plant Sience Plant Research
International
Dept. of Animal Science Inst. of Animal Science
Dept. of Food Science Agrotechnology and Food
Science
Dept. of Social Science Agro-Economics Institute
Environmental Sciences Group
Dept. of Environmental
Alterra
Science
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13. Environmental Sciences Group
Directors
Financial and
Economic Affairs
Human Resource
Management Staff
and
Directors Office: Strategy,
Communication, Legal Advisors,
support
Tender Support Facility services
Centre
Centre Centre
Centre Centre for
for for
for for Water
Landscape Ecosystems
Soil Science Geo and
Studies Studies
Information Climate
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18. Our clients
Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food
Quality
Other ministries
Local and regional governments
Nature conservation organizations
European Union
World Bank and Regional Development
Banks
Private sector 18
20. MSc programs (in English)
Climate Change (Earth Systems Science)
Environmental Sciences
Forest and Nature Conservation
Geo-Information Science
Hydrology and Water Quality
International Land and Water Management
Landscape Architecture and Planning
Leisure, Tourism and Environment
Meteorology and Air Quality
Soil Science
Urban Environment Management
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22. EU Policy
Impact Assessment Guidelines (2006)
– ‘The decision to develop a policy…….should
be based on sound analysis fed by the best
data available. Impact assessment (IA) is a
key tool ….’
– ‘A formal IA is required for items on the
Commission’s Work Programme. All
regulatory proposals, White Papers,
expenditure programmes and negotiating
guidelines for international agreements….’
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23. EU projects under FP6
Land use
Coastal zones
agriculture forestry urban
management
Carbon and nitrogen cycles
Taken from presentation EC scientific officer Daniel Deybe
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24. EU projects under FP6
Matisse
Adam
Sensor Land use Lupis
Coastal zones
agriculture forestry urban
management
Insea
Eforwood Plurel Spicosa
Seamless
Carbon and nitrogen cycles
Carbo-europe Nitro-europe
Taken from presentation EC scientific officer Daniel Deybe Carbo-africa
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25. Two trends in research
“Top down processes” “Bottom up processes”
Impact studies Design studies
Evaluation of policies Regional development
Objectives are defined Objectives and indicators
Researchers develop defined interacting with
indicators the researchers
Researcher define Researcher have a
normative targets facilitator role
SENSOR MATISSE?
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26. SENSOR in a nut-shell
Multifunctional
Interdisciplinary
Interaction between spatial + time scales
and three dimensions of sustainability
19 member states, 38 research institutions
including Alterra (as second partner) and
EMBRAPA
2004-2009
Budget: 12.6 M €
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27. SENSOR…
Develops an ex-ante Sustainability Impact
Assessment tool for land use in European
Union
– Impact on economic, environmental and
social aspects
– Multifunctional land use
– EU27 + Norway + Switzerland
– Multi-scale: member states and regions
Makes use of existing datasets
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29. SENSOR overall objective
Build a tool that can
support decision
makers to anticipate
the effects of their
policies
Integral weighting of
the three
sustainability
dimensions
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30. Sustainability (3 D)
SPACE SOCIETAL
Policy makers Scientists
ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENTAL
Stakeholders
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32. It refers always to a value that is
offered by a location
Value
Usability
Experience
Future
Monetary, non-monetary
PhD Termorshuizen, Landscape ecology 2009
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33. Physical structure determines the
functioning that leads to the defined
value
Physical
Function Value
structure
objective subjective
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34. Example
Physical Function Value
structure
Soil, water,
climate in Sao Production of Sustainability
Paulo state sugarcane image
agricultural Reduction of GHG
areas emissions; energy
safety
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38. Many indicators
Individual indicators –
detailed view but not the integrated
picture
Pesticide use
Carbon sequestration
Verweij and te Roller, Alterra, 2009
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46. The SENSOR knowledge flow: top-down
To translate the impact that EU policy scenarios have on indicators
into a sustainable impact assessment at regional level
Policy scenarios Policy makers and
researchers
TOP
Database based on
statistics, model outputs,
Researchers
case studies
Indicators Policy makers and
researchers
LUFs
Sustainability
Impact Assessment
of EU policies Policy makers
DOWN Valuation
Regional stakeholders
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Based on the information pyramid (World Resource Institute, 1995)
47. The SENSOR knowledge flow: top-down
Policy scenarios Policy makers and
researchers
TOP
Database based on
statistics, model outputs,
Researchers
case studies
Indicators Policy makers and
researchers
Sustainability
Impact Assessment
of EU policies Policy makers
DOWN Valuation
Regional stakeholders
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Based on the information pyramid (World Resource Institute, 1995)