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 Telekom’s 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