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                           NEWSLETTER
                           No. 4 November 2006



                                                 Content



Integrated Environmental Impact Assessment as an             The Sketch Environment within Garp3
e - Learning Module for Sustainable Development
                                                             Anders Bouwer and Bert Bredeweg
Markus Jochum, Dipl. Forstwirt (University of
Freiburg), Peter K A Barz, BSc MSc MIEMA CEnv                To support users in the early phases during the model-
(Environmental Network Limited)                              building process, the Sketch environment has been
                                                             implemented as an integrated part of the Garp3
Based on the recognition that ecosystems provide the         collaborative workbench [1]. It offers a series of seven
basis for life on Earth, it is the sustainable development   editors that allow users to represent their ideas about a
(SD) and management of these services that enables           domain in increasing levels of detail. …
continued human health and welfare. However,
prosperity also depends on continued economic                                                                  Page 8
development whereby industrial growth and the
expansion of built-up areas and their associated
infrastructures often exert negative impact on people
and their social and natural environment. …                  Successful Use of Garp3 by Stakeholders
                                                   Page 2    Bert Bredeweg, Paulo Salles, Anders Bouwer,
                                                             Elinor Bakker and Jochem Liem
Sharing and Reuse of Conceptual Models                       The Garp3 software is developed to be a workbench
                                                             for stakeholders to advance their conceptual ideas on
Jochem Liem and Bert Bredeweg                                cause-effect    analysis of      systems’   behaviour,
One of the goals of the NaturNet-Redime project is to        particularly concerning phenomena related to
empower stakeholders with means to manipulate                sustainable development. By using this workbench
cause-effect models. Being able to easily inspect the        users can investigate the logical consequences of their
contents of models, take parts of those models as            common sense ideas and use expert knowledge to
needed, and assemble them into a new model context           improve their own understanding of phenomena. …
are among those goals. Hence, there is a desire to                                                           Page 10
share and reuse (parts of) qualitative models, as the
community building qualitative models is growing. …
                                                   Page 4
                                                             Events of interest

The Qualitative Reasoning and Modelling Portal                                                              Page 12

Elinor Bakker, Jochem Liem and Bert Bredeweg
                                                             Contact
The Qualitative Reasoning & Modelling (QRM) portal
(http://www.garp3.org) is the central place on the web                                                      Page 13
where information about the Garp3 workbench and
related theoretical and practical issues is presented. …
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Integrated Environmental Impact Assessment as an e-Learning
                  Module for Sustainable Development
        Markus Jochum, Dipl. Forstwirt (University of Freiburg), Peter K A Barz, BSc MSc MIEMA CEnv
                                     (Environmental Network Limited)




Based on the recognition that ecosystems provide the             illustrate the complexity involved in achieving its aims,
basis for life on Earth, it is the sustainable development       the NaturNet-Redime (NNR) project seeks to
(SD) and management of these services that enables               demonstrate the role and interaction of some of these
continued human health and welfare. However,                     interests and parameters that are so important for SD
prosperity also depends on continued economic                    through the example of the integrated Environmental
development whereby industrial growth and the                    Impact Assessment (iEIA) methodology.
expansion of built-up areas and their associated
infrastructures often exert negative impact on people            This educational objective will be achieved with the help
and their social and natural environment.                        of an e-learning module for SD that deals with the topical
                                                                 example of the construction and assessment of the
To be sustainable, development needs to balance the              potential impacts caused by a wind generator. The user
environmental, social and economic interests and                 will be able to select and interpret a variety of data,
expectations of societies. This is a complex, multi- and         perform simple analyses of the impacts the
cross-disciplinary process which is based on many                environmental, social and economic parameters are
determinants rendering the understanding and therefore           exposed to and enter the results in the corresponding
acceptance of SD a difficult task for most people.               conflict matrices. These impacts can be judged “Zero”,
                                                                 “Low”, “Medium” or “High”– see examples in Figures 1-3.
In order to make the ordinary person aware of some of
the issues that need to be considered in SD and to




                          Fig. 1: Example conflict matrix with environmental parameters




                               Fig. 2: Example conflict matrix with social parameters




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Fig. 3: Example conflict matrix with economic parameters

This module is specifically designed for Internet users           through the newly-developed distributed web services of
such as ordinary citizens, pupils or students and is using        the NNR Internet Portal and the analysis of this
standardised e-learning software. Based on a broad                geographical data may be carried out as part of the
introduction into SD, this practical e-learning module will       learning activity online, demonstrating the application of
provide focussed tasks for the user investigating and             geographic information in sustainable development in
assessing examples of related environmental, social and           Europe. The potential for the provision of facilities for the
economic parameters – whereby the assembly and                    use of mobile devices in an outdoor environment is
interactions of these parameters represent the approach           being discussed at present enabling the verification
that conforms with the concept of SD. Opportunities are           and/or adding of actual data to the iEIA database.
also provided for additional investigation by those users
who wish to develop their interest in SD in more depth.           An example of the application of such geographic
                                                                  information is the analysis of the visual impact of a wind
This SD e-learning module will guide the user through a           generator with a height of 100 m as shown in Figure 4.
simplified iEIA process, whereby s/he will be able to             The analysis is conducted by calculating visibility based
gather information on the context and detail of the               on elevation data and overlaying this information with a
environmental, social and economic parameters that                further geographic layer containing the adjacent urban
form the background of the proposed infrastructure                area. As a result, the user can interpret the visibility of
development. The user will be supported by pertinent              the wind generator in respect to the area it covers
multi-media information - such as environmental, socio-           (highlighted in blue). The user will be able to interpret
cultural and economic data, which is presented as text,           the selected data, perform a simple analysis of the
links, photographs, movies, sound, etc. Relevant                  impacts the multiple parameters are exposed to and
geographical information will be provided by one of the           enter the results in a conflict matrix. These impacts can
regional administrations that is participating in the NNR         be judged “Zero”, “Low”, “Medium” or “High”.
Project. This information will be made accessible




                      Fig. 4: Visibility analysis for a wind generator with the height of 100m




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The result indicates that due to topographic conditions           “Landscape & Visibility” and depending on the
the vast majority of the citizens of Jihlava cannot see the       importance s/he attributes to the resulting impact, the
wind generator and allows a conclusion as to the level of         correspondent rating is entered into the conflict matrices
impact this causes. On the basis of the preceding study           as shown in the example of Figure 5, below.
made by the user of the issue of the parameter




                       Fig. 5: Environmental conflict matrix showing impact rating entered

The combined impact ratings selected by the user for all          totality represents a particular state of SD. As these
the parameters contained in the environmental, social             possible outcomes directly relate to the particular
and economic conflict matrices will provide an overview           preferences selected by the user they will be highly
of the overall impact of the assumed development and              instructive as to the status of SD envisaged.
present one of a series of possible outcomes which in its




                          Sharing and Reuse of Conceptual Models
                                          Jochem Liem and Bert Bredeweg


One of the goals of the NaturNet-Redime project is to             http://hcs.science.uva.nl/QRM/models/repository/) [1].
empower stakeholders with means to manipulate                     Users can upload qualitative models in a Web
cause-effect models. Being able to easily inspect the             Ontology Language (OWL) format. Based on the
contents of models, take parts of those models as                 contents of these OWL files, an index is created of all
needed, and assemble them into a new model                        the model ingredients in all models. This index is
context are among those goals. Hence, there is                    used to create a search engine, which shows all the
a desire to share and reuse (parts of) qualitative                ingredients in all the models. Selecting an ingredient
models, as the community building qualitative models              from this list refines the amount of matching models,
is growing. Within the NaturNet-Redime project,                   which in turn reduces the items within the model
multiple river ecologists are performing case studies             ingredient list to only the model ingredients in the
about how factors influencing certain rivers affect               matching models. This allows users to refine their
sustainable development. It is important for them to              search, and find only those models that are
be able to reuse parts of each other’s models, and of             potentially interesting for them. Selecting a model
other existing modelling efforts. There is also the               shows the meta-data belonging to that model (author,
wish to be able to evaluate the relevance of models               title, abstract, etc.) and allows users to download the
without having to download and open them in the                   model. Users can also rate models, and get
workbench first.                                                  overviews of the top downloaded and top rated
To address issues such as these, we are developing                models.
a qualitative model repository ( see Figure 1 ,



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Figure 1: Online qualitative model repository


To formalise qualitative models in OWL we                     Garp3 workbench to allow users to copy/paste model
formalised the QR vocabulary (and the usage                   definitions, or even complete aggregates of model
restrictions of these model ingredients) in OWL [3,4].        ingredients between models. The software takes care
Based on this vocabulary a template for qualitative           that all the interdependencies between model
models was created, which was evaluated using                 ingredients are properly maintained, which means
OWL editors and inference engines. In addition,               that if an aggregate is copied to another model, the
functionality was added to the Garp3 workbench                software also copies the model ingredient definitions
(http://www.garp3.org) to export and import models            that this aggregate uses. To implement this
[2]. Each of the exported models refers to concepts           functionality the architecture of Garp3 had to be
defined in the vocabulary, which allows models                changed to allow users to open multiple models at
uploaded to the qualitative model repository to be            the same time (see Figure 2). The model repository,
properly indexed.                                             OWL, multiple model and copy/paste functionality [5]
                                                              allows users to share, search for, and re-use (parts
The OWL functionality and the repository address the
                                                              of) qualitative models to support them in articulating
need of community for sharing and searching. To
                                                              and constructing conceptual knowledge.
further enable re-use, functionality was added to the




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Figure 2: Garp3 workbench with multiple models


References

1.      J. Liem, B. Bredeweg, and A. Bouwer, 2006.        Jochem Liem and Bert Bredeweg. OWL and
QR model-fragment library standard Redime,                qualitatative reasoning models. In 29th annual
Naturnet-Redime, STREP project co-funded by the           German Conference on Artificial Intelligence
European Commission within the Sixth Framework            (KI2006), 2006. Lecture Notes on Artificial
Programme (2002-2006), Project no. 004074, Project        Intelligence. Springer, 2006. (To appear).
Deliverable Report D2.3.2.




2.      B. Bredeweg, A. Bouwer, J. Jellema, D.
Bertels, F. Linnebank, and J. Liem. Garp3 - A new
Workbench for Qualitative Reasoning and Modelling.
20th International Workshop on Qualitative
Reasoning (QR-06), C. Bailey-Kellogg and B. Kuipers
(eds), pages 21-28, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA,
10-12 July 2006.




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The Qualitative Reasoning and Modelling Portal
                                Elinor Bakker, Jochem Liem and Bert Bredeweg




The Qualitative Reasoning & Modelling (QRM) portal           In the Models section, several well-documented
(http://www.garp3.org) is the central place on the web       example models can be found. A model repository
where information about the Garp3 workbench and              has been added as an online feature to support
related theoretical and practical issues is presented.       collaboration between model           builders.   The
The website has been active and online since                 collaborative version of the Garp3 workbench,
October 2005 and has recently been extended to               released in September 2006, makes it possible to
include several new features and an improvement of           save and load model files in a Web Ontology
the internal structure and overall layout.                   Language (OWL) format. To create a platform for
                                                             sharing these files between model builders, the
                                                             model repository
The portal includes documentation about the                  (http://hcs.science.uva.nl/QRM/models/repository/) is
development and usage of the single user and                 added to the portal under the Models section. The
collaborative version of the Garp3 workbench and             model repository makes it possible to upload,
also has a section where the software can be                 download and search models and also offers the
downloaded. In addition to this, the portal offers           possibility to rate available models and look into the
access to published deliverables of the NNR project          metadata that has been provided by the model
which describe best practices when building models           builder.
and a curriculum for learning about QR.




                        Figure 1: The QRM Portal, with improved structure and layout.




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In the Community section, information can be found            this section. Answers to common problems can be
about subscribing to the QRM mailing list. On this list       found in the FAQ section and explanations of QR
questions can be asked about model building issues            concepts are available in the Glossary. The online
and the software. Also, there is an explanation of            bug reporting system has recently been added to the
Skype and VNC, two frequently used platforms to               portal. Since the Garp3 workbench has recently
support communication between people over the                 come out of development status and is still being
internet, which are used to facilitate communication          improved, bugs may occur while working with it.
within the QR community.                                      These discovered bugs can now be brought together
                                                              in the open source Mantis bug tracking system by
The Support section focuses on giving ‘help’ to users
                                                              anyone who finds them, which will support the solving
working with the Garp3 workbench. The Frequently
                                                              of these problems. To complete the portal the Links
Asked Questions (FAQ), Glossary and Bug reports
                                                              section provides web references to related pages and
sections can be accessed from here, and in the near
                                                              the About section provides information about the
future the Garp3 online help pages will be added to
                                                              partners of this project.




                            The Sketch Environment within Garp3
                                     Anders Bouwer and Bert Bredeweg


To support users in the early phases during the
                                                                  •   In the Causal model editor, users can draw a
model-building process, the Sketch environment has
                                                                      graph with quantities as nodes, and
been implemented as an integrated part of the Garp3
                                                                      influences and proportionalities as directed
collaborative workbench [1]. It offers a series of
                                                                      connections between them, to describe the
seven editors that allow users to represent their ideas
                                                                      causal dependencies in the system.
about a domain in increasing levels of detail:
                                                                  •   In the Scenarios editor, users can specify
                                                                      different scenarios to be considered, each of
    •   In the Concept map editor, users can                          which is described in terms of the entities,
        represent what they think are the important                   agents and external influences involved, the
        concepts in a domain, and the relationships                   quantities involved, the initial values and
        between them.                                                 (in-)equality statements,       and relevant
    •   In the Structure editor, users can be more                    assumptions.
        specific about what are the entities, agents,             •   In the Behaviour graph editor, users can
        and assumptions of the system of interest,                    draw a directed state-transition graph of the
        leading to a structure model.                                 expected behaviour of the system, in which
    •   In the Process definitions editor, users can                  each state is characterized by typical quantity
        specify the important aspects for each of the                 values, or (in-)equality statements.
        processes that may cause changes to the
        state of the system, such as the entities
        involved, the quantities involved, the start
        conditions under which the process applies,
                                                              Working through this set of editors structures the
        the effects, the stop conditions, and relevant
                                                              model building process (following the framework for
        assumptions.
                                                              structured modelling [2]), and the resulting sketches
    •   In the Agents and external influences
                                                              can be shared as intermediate modelling results. This
        definitions editor, users can specify the
                                                              helps to establish a common understanding of the
        important aspects for each of the agents and
                                                              domain between modellers, before building a final
        external influences that may influence the
                                                              simulation model.
        system from outside, in a similar fashion as
        for the Process definitions.




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Figure 1. Screenshots from the different editors in the Sketch environment.


During the Krimulda workshop in September 2006,                  [1] J. Liem, A. Bouwer, and B. Bredeweg, 2006.
six project participants (in work package 4 and 6)               Collaborative QR model building and simulation
have tested the basic Sketch environment                         workbench, Naturnet-Redime, STREP project co-
functionality by using it to represent knowledge about           funded by the European Commission within the Sixth
their river ecology case studies. The participants               Framework Programme (2002-2006), Project no.
welcomed the addition of the Sketch functionality and            004074, Project Deliverable Report D4.3.
provided useful comments for further improvements.
Current work concentrates on functionality for
importing information from one sketch to another,
which will further facilitate creating sketches that form
a consistent and coherent set of representations
about the domain. In conclusion, the Sketch                      [2] B. Bredeweg, Salles, P., Bouwer, A., and Liem L,
environment explicitly structures the model building             2005. Framework for conceptual QR description of
process, and will support users in the model building            case studies, Naturnet-Redime, STREP project co-
process by refining initial ideas into detailed                  funded by the European Commission within the Sixth
representations      of     expert    knowledge.     Visit       Framework Programme (2002-2006), Project no.
http://garp3.org for further details and for                     004074, Project Deliverable Report D6.1.
downloading the Sketch software (Garp3 version
1.3.1).




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Successful Use of Garp3 by Stakeholders
                Bert Bredeweg, Paulo Salles, Anders Bouwer, Elinor Bakker and Jochem Liem


The Garp3 software is developed to be a workbench           As domain knowledge we focussed on the Millennium
for stakeholders to advance their conceptual ideas on       Development Goals (MDG) as defined by the United
cause-effect analysis of systems’ behaviour,                Nations (see e.g.http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/).
particularly concerning phenomena related to                More specifically, the knowledge dealt with the notion
sustainable development. By using this workbench            of deforestation in the context of the MDG number 7,
users can investigate the logical consequences of           which is concerned with ‘ensuring environmental
their common sense ideas and use expert knowledge           sustainability’ (cf. Salles et al., 2005). A model was
to improve their own understanding of phenomena.            created in Garp3 that captures some of the key ideas
                                                            relevant to deforestation. The causal model resulting
But how useful is the Garp3 software actually for
                                                            from that is shown in Figure 1 and the accompanying
such purposes? Recently the Garp3 workbench was
                                                            value history in Figure 2. Summarising, at the start of
presented to two groups of Latvian students from the
                                                            the cause-effect chain is the deforestation rate, which
University of Latvia and from the Vidzeme Regional
                                                            reduces the land with vegetation, which in turn
University. These students were Bachelors (final
                                                            causes the biodiversity to decrease and consequently
year) and Masters (first year) and had no prior
                                                            reduces the chances of finding new food and
knowledge of the Garp3 Qualitative Reasoning (QR)
                                                            medicines. It also causes erosion to increase, which
technology. These students were therefore well
                                                            leads to less agricultural production and less water
suited to investigate the usability of the software with
                                                            contained in reservoirs. Ultimately, all these factors
real novice stakeholders, which was the main goal of
                                                            come together in the gross domestic product (GDP),
the event.
                                                            reflecting the human wealth, which decreases (when
The software has many features that can be used to          deforestation is active).
design potentially interesting and useful knowledge
                                                            For the experiment the full model was rearranged into
discovery events. Participants may build their own
                                                            six sub-models, ranging from simple (addressing only
model from scratch, individually or collaboratively
                                                            wood cutting and land with vegetation) to complex
interact with existing models, make sketches of initial
                                                            (including all details as shown in Figure 1). The
ideas, discuss a causal model within a group, and
                                                            students who used the software during the
many more. For the interaction with the Latvian
                                                            experiment interacted with each of these models
students we opted for a traditional experimental
                                                            while working through a set of assignments (with
setting that investigates whether the software can be
                                                            questions such as: Which quantity is influenced
used effectively to learn something in the first place.
                                                            negatively by deforestation? If land with vegetation
After all, due to its many options the Garp3 software
                                                            decreases, what will happen to biodiversity? What is
may appear complex and testing all functionality in
                                                            the value of biodiversity in state 1 and 4? Which
one experiment is infeasible.
                                                            quantity is increasing?)




                    Figure 1: Causal model generated by Garp3 for the deforestation model




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Figure 2: Value history of the quantities in the deforestation model



In the experiment a group of 24 subjects was                 treatment condition worked through the models (as
assigned to the treatment condition and a group of           described above) and the students in the control
the 22 subjects was assigned to the control condition        group attended a lecture on the use of computers for
(Table 1). To assess the pre-knowledge of the                education. Both of these lasted approximately one
subjects a questionnaire was administered consisting         hour, after which a post-test was administered to both
of 36 questions about issues captured in the model           groups. The post-test was in principle similar to the
on deforestation as discussed above. The                     pre-test, but consisted of a different set of questions
questionnaire contained different kinds of questions,        on the same subject matter. Finally, the experiment
such as True/False questions (e.g., IF agricultural          was closed by briefly explaining the overall goal and
production decreases, THEN GDP, wealth,                      organisation of the event. In the control group this of
decreases), questions that required students to fill out     course required some additional effort in order to
the missing word (increasing or decreasing) (e.g., IF        ensure that they would also appreciate the
erosion increases, THEN agricultural production              experience (e.g., interested students were given
……?), etc. After this pre-test the students in the           a brief overview of the Garp3 software and related
                                                             research issues).




                                            Table 1: Experimental set-up

                               15 min           15 min     60 min                   15 min       15 min
                Treatment      Introduction     Pre-test   Working with Garp3       Post-test    Closing
                Control        Introduction     Pre-test   Lecture on ICT           Post-test    Closing




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The results of the experiment turned out to be very
encouraging. Students in the treatment group could          Acknowledgement
easily operate the software, that is open the models,
                                                            We are grateful to the students who participated in
run them, and inspect the simulations. Apparently the
                                                            the experiment, and to Maris Alberts, Una Bike,
interface of the Garp3 software behaves in a way that
                                                            Peteris Bruns and their co-workers for providing us
is intuitive for this generation of students. The
                                                            the opportunity to work with Latvian students to test
treatment was also effective in creating a significant
                                                            our ideas and software.
learning effect. Particularly, after removing the
subjects who scored very high on the pre-test (≥ 30
correct), the subjects in the treatment group (N=16)
scored an average of 26.95 points on the post-test          Literature
(with 23.25 points on the pre-test), while the subjects     • Salles, P., Bredeweg, B., and Nuttle, T. (2005)
in the control group (N=21) scored an average of                 Qualitative Models of Indicators of Environmental
21.05 points on the post-test (with 20.24 points on              Sustainability of the Millennium Development
the pre-test). This turned out to be a statistically             Goals. 2nd MONET Workshop on Model-Based
significant difference using a t-test (P<0.001). Being           Systems (MONET 05) at the 19th International
able to achieve this result within the short duration of         Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-
the experiment creates promises for the impact the               05), Picardi, C., Salles, P. and Wotawa, F. (eds.),
Garp3 software may deliver when it is used                       pages 66-72, Edinburgh, Scotland, 30 July.
systematically on a variety of topics in an educational
context.




                                                 Events of interest

NATURNET - REDIME workshop - Tools And                      International European 1st EAAE Forum on
Methods For Raisining Awareness of Sustainable              Innovation and System Dynamics in Food
Development                                                 Networks
              th
Bruxelles, 29 November 2006, INTEREL, Avenue                15-17 February 2007 INNSBRUCK - IGLS – Austria.
de Tervuren 402, Brussels, 1150 Belgium. Organized          The objective of this Forum is to provide an
by The Vysocina Region (CZ) & the NaturNet-                 interdisciplinary discussion environment that supports
Redime Team                                                 creativity and exchange to foster the development of
                                                            new ideas for innovative and interdisciplinary
Contact: ccss@ccss.cz
                                                            research in the agri-food sector.
                                                            Contact: Melanie FRITZ Email: m.fritz(a)uni-bonn.de
                                                            http://www.uf.uni-bonn.de/innovation2007/
                                                            15 th Conference in Agricultural Labour Science
 5th International     Conference     on    Ecological      5 – 6 March 2007 Vienna
Informatics ISEI5                                           The conference is organised by Max-Eyth-Society for
                                                            Agricultural Engineering of the VDI and the University
December 4th-6th, 2006 Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
                                                            of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in
Novel Computational Techniques for Improved                 Vienna.
Management, Understanding and Forecasting of
Complex Ecological Data                                     Contact: Prof.Dr.J.BOXBERGER
                                                            E-mail: josef.boxberger(a)boku.ac.at
http://www.isei5-conference.elsevier.com/
                                                            http://www.nas.boku.ac.at/akal-seminar.html




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SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
                                         Educational programmes on social, economic, and environmental
                                   tools for the implementation of the EU Strategy on Sustainable Development
                                                        at both EU and international levels

                                                           NATURNET-REDIME
        New Education and Decision Support Model for Active Behaviour in Sustainable Development
                      Based on Innovative Web Services and Qualitative Reasoning
          Project no.                      004074
          Instrument:                      SPECIFIC TARGETED RESEARCH PROJECT
          Thematic Priority:               SUSTDEV-2004-3.VIII.2.e
          Start date of project:           1st March 2005             Duration :      30 months
          Web :                            http ://www.naturnet.org
          Project officer                  Daniel Deybe       Daniel.DEYBE@cec.eu.int
Project co-funded by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Programme (2002-2006)
Co-odinator                                                     Contact person     Country   E-mail
Czech Centre for Science and Society                            Karel Charvat        CZ      ccss@ccss.cz




Partner                                                         Contact person     Country   E-mail
Environmental Network Ltd                                       Peter Barz           UK      pkab@env-net.com
http://www.env-net.com/
Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg                           Barbara Koch         DE      barbara.koch@felis.uni-freiburg.de
https://portal.uni-freiburg.de/felis/
Municipality of Francavilla di Sicilia                          Nino Paterno         IT      npat@stepim.it
http://www.stepim.it/
Gymnazium Bozeny Nemcove                                        Jan Sterba           CZ      sterba@gybon.cz
http://www.gybon.cz/
INNOVATION. Grenzüberschreitendes Netzwerk e.V                  Frank Hoffmann       DE      320052219146@t-online.de
http://www.IGN-SN.de
Institute of Mathematics and Comp. Science, Univ. of Latvia     Maris Alberts        LV      alberts@acad.latnet.lv
http://www.lumii.lv/
Joanneum Research                                               Alexander Almer      AT      alexander.almer@joanneum.at
http://dib.joanneum.at/
KRIMULDA - Municipality                                         Juris Salmins        LV      krimulda@rrp.lv
APIF MOVIQUITY SA                                               Wendy Moreno         ES      wmp@moviquity.com
http://www.moviquity.com/
Mission TIC de la Collectivité Territoriale de Corse            Jerome Granados      FR      jerome.granados@mitic.corse.fr
http://www.mitic.corse.fr
Region Vysocina                                                 Jiri Hiess           CZ      Hiess.J@kr-vysocina.cz
University of Jena, Institute of Ecology                        Tim Nuttle           DE      Tim.Nuttle@uni-jena.de
http://www.uni-jena.de/ecology.html
                                                                Michael Neumann              mn@mneum.de
Human Computer Studies Laboratory, Inform atics Institute,      Bert Bredeweg        NL      http://hcs.science.uva.nl/~bredeweg
Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam
http://hcs.science.uva.nl/projects/NNR/
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Central Laboratory of            Yordan Uzunov        BG      uzunov@ecolab.bas.bg
General Ecology (CLGE)
Danube Delta National Instit. for Research and Developm ent     Eugenia Cioaca       RO      eugenia958@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.indd.tim.ro/
University of Brasilia, Institute of Biological Sciences        Paulo Salles         BR      psalles@unb.br
University of Hull, International Fisheries Institute           Ian Cowx             UK      i.g.cowx@hull.ac.uk
University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences,      Stefan Schmutz       AT      stefan.schmutz@boku.ac.at
Department of Hydrobiology, Fisheries and Aquaculture


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  • 1. Naturnet - Redime NEWSLETTER No. 4 November 2006 Content Integrated Environmental Impact Assessment as an The Sketch Environment within Garp3 e - Learning Module for Sustainable Development Anders Bouwer and Bert Bredeweg Markus Jochum, Dipl. Forstwirt (University of Freiburg), Peter K A Barz, BSc MSc MIEMA CEnv To support users in the early phases during the model- (Environmental Network Limited) building process, the Sketch environment has been implemented as an integrated part of the Garp3 Based on the recognition that ecosystems provide the collaborative workbench [1]. It offers a series of seven basis for life on Earth, it is the sustainable development editors that allow users to represent their ideas about a (SD) and management of these services that enables domain in increasing levels of detail. … continued human health and welfare. However, prosperity also depends on continued economic Page 8 development whereby industrial growth and the expansion of built-up areas and their associated infrastructures often exert negative impact on people and their social and natural environment. … Successful Use of Garp3 by Stakeholders Page 2 Bert Bredeweg, Paulo Salles, Anders Bouwer, Elinor Bakker and Jochem Liem Sharing and Reuse of Conceptual Models The Garp3 software is developed to be a workbench for stakeholders to advance their conceptual ideas on Jochem Liem and Bert Bredeweg cause-effect analysis of systems’ behaviour, One of the goals of the NaturNet-Redime project is to particularly concerning phenomena related to empower stakeholders with means to manipulate sustainable development. By using this workbench cause-effect models. Being able to easily inspect the users can investigate the logical consequences of their contents of models, take parts of those models as common sense ideas and use expert knowledge to needed, and assemble them into a new model context improve their own understanding of phenomena. … are among those goals. Hence, there is a desire to Page 10 share and reuse (parts of) qualitative models, as the community building qualitative models is growing. … Page 4 Events of interest The Qualitative Reasoning and Modelling Portal Page 12 Elinor Bakker, Jochem Liem and Bert Bredeweg Contact The Qualitative Reasoning & Modelling (QRM) portal (http://www.garp3.org) is the central place on the web Page 13 where information about the Garp3 workbench and related theoretical and practical issues is presented. … Page 7 České centrum pro vědu a společnost, Radlická 28/263, 150 00 Praha 5, Czech Republic www.naturnet.org www.ccss.cz ISSN 1801-6480 <META NAME="DC.Identifier" CONTENT="(SCHEME=ISSN) 18016480">
  • 2. Integrated Environmental Impact Assessment as an e-Learning Module for Sustainable Development Markus Jochum, Dipl. Forstwirt (University of Freiburg), Peter K A Barz, BSc MSc MIEMA CEnv (Environmental Network Limited) Based on the recognition that ecosystems provide the illustrate the complexity involved in achieving its aims, basis for life on Earth, it is the sustainable development the NaturNet-Redime (NNR) project seeks to (SD) and management of these services that enables demonstrate the role and interaction of some of these continued human health and welfare. However, interests and parameters that are so important for SD prosperity also depends on continued economic through the example of the integrated Environmental development whereby industrial growth and the Impact Assessment (iEIA) methodology. expansion of built-up areas and their associated infrastructures often exert negative impact on people This educational objective will be achieved with the help and their social and natural environment. of an e-learning module for SD that deals with the topical example of the construction and assessment of the To be sustainable, development needs to balance the potential impacts caused by a wind generator. The user environmental, social and economic interests and will be able to select and interpret a variety of data, expectations of societies. This is a complex, multi- and perform simple analyses of the impacts the cross-disciplinary process which is based on many environmental, social and economic parameters are determinants rendering the understanding and therefore exposed to and enter the results in the corresponding acceptance of SD a difficult task for most people. conflict matrices. These impacts can be judged “Zero”, “Low”, “Medium” or “High”– see examples in Figures 1-3. In order to make the ordinary person aware of some of the issues that need to be considered in SD and to Fig. 1: Example conflict matrix with environmental parameters Fig. 2: Example conflict matrix with social parameters 2
  • 3. Fig. 3: Example conflict matrix with economic parameters This module is specifically designed for Internet users through the newly-developed distributed web services of such as ordinary citizens, pupils or students and is using the NNR Internet Portal and the analysis of this standardised e-learning software. Based on a broad geographical data may be carried out as part of the introduction into SD, this practical e-learning module will learning activity online, demonstrating the application of provide focussed tasks for the user investigating and geographic information in sustainable development in assessing examples of related environmental, social and Europe. The potential for the provision of facilities for the economic parameters – whereby the assembly and use of mobile devices in an outdoor environment is interactions of these parameters represent the approach being discussed at present enabling the verification that conforms with the concept of SD. Opportunities are and/or adding of actual data to the iEIA database. also provided for additional investigation by those users who wish to develop their interest in SD in more depth. An example of the application of such geographic information is the analysis of the visual impact of a wind This SD e-learning module will guide the user through a generator with a height of 100 m as shown in Figure 4. simplified iEIA process, whereby s/he will be able to The analysis is conducted by calculating visibility based gather information on the context and detail of the on elevation data and overlaying this information with a environmental, social and economic parameters that further geographic layer containing the adjacent urban form the background of the proposed infrastructure area. As a result, the user can interpret the visibility of development. The user will be supported by pertinent the wind generator in respect to the area it covers multi-media information - such as environmental, socio- (highlighted in blue). The user will be able to interpret cultural and economic data, which is presented as text, the selected data, perform a simple analysis of the links, photographs, movies, sound, etc. Relevant impacts the multiple parameters are exposed to and geographical information will be provided by one of the enter the results in a conflict matrix. These impacts can regional administrations that is participating in the NNR be judged “Zero”, “Low”, “Medium” or “High”. Project. This information will be made accessible Fig. 4: Visibility analysis for a wind generator with the height of 100m 3
  • 4. The result indicates that due to topographic conditions “Landscape & Visibility” and depending on the the vast majority of the citizens of Jihlava cannot see the importance s/he attributes to the resulting impact, the wind generator and allows a conclusion as to the level of correspondent rating is entered into the conflict matrices impact this causes. On the basis of the preceding study as shown in the example of Figure 5, below. made by the user of the issue of the parameter Fig. 5: Environmental conflict matrix showing impact rating entered The combined impact ratings selected by the user for all totality represents a particular state of SD. As these the parameters contained in the environmental, social possible outcomes directly relate to the particular and economic conflict matrices will provide an overview preferences selected by the user they will be highly of the overall impact of the assumed development and instructive as to the status of SD envisaged. present one of a series of possible outcomes which in its Sharing and Reuse of Conceptual Models Jochem Liem and Bert Bredeweg One of the goals of the NaturNet-Redime project is to http://hcs.science.uva.nl/QRM/models/repository/) [1]. empower stakeholders with means to manipulate Users can upload qualitative models in a Web cause-effect models. Being able to easily inspect the Ontology Language (OWL) format. Based on the contents of models, take parts of those models as contents of these OWL files, an index is created of all needed, and assemble them into a new model the model ingredients in all models. This index is context are among those goals. Hence, there is used to create a search engine, which shows all the a desire to share and reuse (parts of) qualitative ingredients in all the models. Selecting an ingredient models, as the community building qualitative models from this list refines the amount of matching models, is growing. Within the NaturNet-Redime project, which in turn reduces the items within the model multiple river ecologists are performing case studies ingredient list to only the model ingredients in the about how factors influencing certain rivers affect matching models. This allows users to refine their sustainable development. It is important for them to search, and find only those models that are be able to reuse parts of each other’s models, and of potentially interesting for them. Selecting a model other existing modelling efforts. There is also the shows the meta-data belonging to that model (author, wish to be able to evaluate the relevance of models title, abstract, etc.) and allows users to download the without having to download and open them in the model. Users can also rate models, and get workbench first. overviews of the top downloaded and top rated To address issues such as these, we are developing models. a qualitative model repository ( see Figure 1 , 4
  • 5. Figure 1: Online qualitative model repository To formalise qualitative models in OWL we Garp3 workbench to allow users to copy/paste model formalised the QR vocabulary (and the usage definitions, or even complete aggregates of model restrictions of these model ingredients) in OWL [3,4]. ingredients between models. The software takes care Based on this vocabulary a template for qualitative that all the interdependencies between model models was created, which was evaluated using ingredients are properly maintained, which means OWL editors and inference engines. In addition, that if an aggregate is copied to another model, the functionality was added to the Garp3 workbench software also copies the model ingredient definitions (http://www.garp3.org) to export and import models that this aggregate uses. To implement this [2]. Each of the exported models refers to concepts functionality the architecture of Garp3 had to be defined in the vocabulary, which allows models changed to allow users to open multiple models at uploaded to the qualitative model repository to be the same time (see Figure 2). The model repository, properly indexed. OWL, multiple model and copy/paste functionality [5] allows users to share, search for, and re-use (parts The OWL functionality and the repository address the of) qualitative models to support them in articulating need of community for sharing and searching. To and constructing conceptual knowledge. further enable re-use, functionality was added to the 5
  • 6. Figure 2: Garp3 workbench with multiple models References 1. J. Liem, B. Bredeweg, and A. Bouwer, 2006. Jochem Liem and Bert Bredeweg. OWL and QR model-fragment library standard Redime, qualitatative reasoning models. In 29th annual Naturnet-Redime, STREP project co-funded by the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence European Commission within the Sixth Framework (KI2006), 2006. Lecture Notes on Artificial Programme (2002-2006), Project no. 004074, Project Intelligence. Springer, 2006. (To appear). Deliverable Report D2.3.2. 2. B. Bredeweg, A. Bouwer, J. Jellema, D. Bertels, F. Linnebank, and J. Liem. Garp3 - A new Workbench for Qualitative Reasoning and Modelling. 20th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR-06), C. Bailey-Kellogg and B. Kuipers (eds), pages 21-28, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, 10-12 July 2006. 6
  • 7. The Qualitative Reasoning and Modelling Portal Elinor Bakker, Jochem Liem and Bert Bredeweg The Qualitative Reasoning & Modelling (QRM) portal In the Models section, several well-documented (http://www.garp3.org) is the central place on the web example models can be found. A model repository where information about the Garp3 workbench and has been added as an online feature to support related theoretical and practical issues is presented. collaboration between model builders. The The website has been active and online since collaborative version of the Garp3 workbench, October 2005 and has recently been extended to released in September 2006, makes it possible to include several new features and an improvement of save and load model files in a Web Ontology the internal structure and overall layout. Language (OWL) format. To create a platform for sharing these files between model builders, the model repository The portal includes documentation about the (http://hcs.science.uva.nl/QRM/models/repository/) is development and usage of the single user and added to the portal under the Models section. The collaborative version of the Garp3 workbench and model repository makes it possible to upload, also has a section where the software can be download and search models and also offers the downloaded. In addition to this, the portal offers possibility to rate available models and look into the access to published deliverables of the NNR project metadata that has been provided by the model which describe best practices when building models builder. and a curriculum for learning about QR. Figure 1: The QRM Portal, with improved structure and layout. 7
  • 8. In the Community section, information can be found this section. Answers to common problems can be about subscribing to the QRM mailing list. On this list found in the FAQ section and explanations of QR questions can be asked about model building issues concepts are available in the Glossary. The online and the software. Also, there is an explanation of bug reporting system has recently been added to the Skype and VNC, two frequently used platforms to portal. Since the Garp3 workbench has recently support communication between people over the come out of development status and is still being internet, which are used to facilitate communication improved, bugs may occur while working with it. within the QR community. These discovered bugs can now be brought together in the open source Mantis bug tracking system by The Support section focuses on giving ‘help’ to users anyone who finds them, which will support the solving working with the Garp3 workbench. The Frequently of these problems. To complete the portal the Links Asked Questions (FAQ), Glossary and Bug reports section provides web references to related pages and sections can be accessed from here, and in the near the About section provides information about the future the Garp3 online help pages will be added to partners of this project. The Sketch Environment within Garp3 Anders Bouwer and Bert Bredeweg To support users in the early phases during the • In the Causal model editor, users can draw a model-building process, the Sketch environment has graph with quantities as nodes, and been implemented as an integrated part of the Garp3 influences and proportionalities as directed collaborative workbench [1]. It offers a series of connections between them, to describe the seven editors that allow users to represent their ideas causal dependencies in the system. about a domain in increasing levels of detail: • In the Scenarios editor, users can specify different scenarios to be considered, each of • In the Concept map editor, users can which is described in terms of the entities, represent what they think are the important agents and external influences involved, the concepts in a domain, and the relationships quantities involved, the initial values and between them. (in-)equality statements, and relevant • In the Structure editor, users can be more assumptions. specific about what are the entities, agents, • In the Behaviour graph editor, users can and assumptions of the system of interest, draw a directed state-transition graph of the leading to a structure model. expected behaviour of the system, in which • In the Process definitions editor, users can each state is characterized by typical quantity specify the important aspects for each of the values, or (in-)equality statements. processes that may cause changes to the state of the system, such as the entities involved, the quantities involved, the start conditions under which the process applies, Working through this set of editors structures the the effects, the stop conditions, and relevant model building process (following the framework for assumptions. structured modelling [2]), and the resulting sketches • In the Agents and external influences can be shared as intermediate modelling results. This definitions editor, users can specify the helps to establish a common understanding of the important aspects for each of the agents and domain between modellers, before building a final external influences that may influence the simulation model. system from outside, in a similar fashion as for the Process definitions. 8
  • 9. Figure 1. Screenshots from the different editors in the Sketch environment. During the Krimulda workshop in September 2006, [1] J. Liem, A. Bouwer, and B. Bredeweg, 2006. six project participants (in work package 4 and 6) Collaborative QR model building and simulation have tested the basic Sketch environment workbench, Naturnet-Redime, STREP project co- functionality by using it to represent knowledge about funded by the European Commission within the Sixth their river ecology case studies. The participants Framework Programme (2002-2006), Project no. welcomed the addition of the Sketch functionality and 004074, Project Deliverable Report D4.3. provided useful comments for further improvements. Current work concentrates on functionality for importing information from one sketch to another, which will further facilitate creating sketches that form a consistent and coherent set of representations about the domain. In conclusion, the Sketch [2] B. Bredeweg, Salles, P., Bouwer, A., and Liem L, environment explicitly structures the model building 2005. Framework for conceptual QR description of process, and will support users in the model building case studies, Naturnet-Redime, STREP project co- process by refining initial ideas into detailed funded by the European Commission within the Sixth representations of expert knowledge. Visit Framework Programme (2002-2006), Project no. http://garp3.org for further details and for 004074, Project Deliverable Report D6.1. downloading the Sketch software (Garp3 version 1.3.1). 9
  • 10. Successful Use of Garp3 by Stakeholders Bert Bredeweg, Paulo Salles, Anders Bouwer, Elinor Bakker and Jochem Liem The Garp3 software is developed to be a workbench As domain knowledge we focussed on the Millennium for stakeholders to advance their conceptual ideas on Development Goals (MDG) as defined by the United cause-effect analysis of systems’ behaviour, Nations (see e.g.http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/). particularly concerning phenomena related to More specifically, the knowledge dealt with the notion sustainable development. By using this workbench of deforestation in the context of the MDG number 7, users can investigate the logical consequences of which is concerned with ‘ensuring environmental their common sense ideas and use expert knowledge sustainability’ (cf. Salles et al., 2005). A model was to improve their own understanding of phenomena. created in Garp3 that captures some of the key ideas relevant to deforestation. The causal model resulting But how useful is the Garp3 software actually for from that is shown in Figure 1 and the accompanying such purposes? Recently the Garp3 workbench was value history in Figure 2. Summarising, at the start of presented to two groups of Latvian students from the the cause-effect chain is the deforestation rate, which University of Latvia and from the Vidzeme Regional reduces the land with vegetation, which in turn University. These students were Bachelors (final causes the biodiversity to decrease and consequently year) and Masters (first year) and had no prior reduces the chances of finding new food and knowledge of the Garp3 Qualitative Reasoning (QR) medicines. It also causes erosion to increase, which technology. These students were therefore well leads to less agricultural production and less water suited to investigate the usability of the software with contained in reservoirs. Ultimately, all these factors real novice stakeholders, which was the main goal of come together in the gross domestic product (GDP), the event. reflecting the human wealth, which decreases (when The software has many features that can be used to deforestation is active). design potentially interesting and useful knowledge For the experiment the full model was rearranged into discovery events. Participants may build their own six sub-models, ranging from simple (addressing only model from scratch, individually or collaboratively wood cutting and land with vegetation) to complex interact with existing models, make sketches of initial (including all details as shown in Figure 1). The ideas, discuss a causal model within a group, and students who used the software during the many more. For the interaction with the Latvian experiment interacted with each of these models students we opted for a traditional experimental while working through a set of assignments (with setting that investigates whether the software can be questions such as: Which quantity is influenced used effectively to learn something in the first place. negatively by deforestation? If land with vegetation After all, due to its many options the Garp3 software decreases, what will happen to biodiversity? What is may appear complex and testing all functionality in the value of biodiversity in state 1 and 4? Which one experiment is infeasible. quantity is increasing?) Figure 1: Causal model generated by Garp3 for the deforestation model 10
  • 11. Figure 2: Value history of the quantities in the deforestation model In the experiment a group of 24 subjects was treatment condition worked through the models (as assigned to the treatment condition and a group of described above) and the students in the control the 22 subjects was assigned to the control condition group attended a lecture on the use of computers for (Table 1). To assess the pre-knowledge of the education. Both of these lasted approximately one subjects a questionnaire was administered consisting hour, after which a post-test was administered to both of 36 questions about issues captured in the model groups. The post-test was in principle similar to the on deforestation as discussed above. The pre-test, but consisted of a different set of questions questionnaire contained different kinds of questions, on the same subject matter. Finally, the experiment such as True/False questions (e.g., IF agricultural was closed by briefly explaining the overall goal and production decreases, THEN GDP, wealth, organisation of the event. In the control group this of decreases), questions that required students to fill out course required some additional effort in order to the missing word (increasing or decreasing) (e.g., IF ensure that they would also appreciate the erosion increases, THEN agricultural production experience (e.g., interested students were given ……?), etc. After this pre-test the students in the a brief overview of the Garp3 software and related research issues). Table 1: Experimental set-up 15 min 15 min 60 min 15 min 15 min Treatment Introduction Pre-test Working with Garp3 Post-test Closing Control Introduction Pre-test Lecture on ICT Post-test Closing 11
  • 12. The results of the experiment turned out to be very encouraging. Students in the treatment group could Acknowledgement easily operate the software, that is open the models, We are grateful to the students who participated in run them, and inspect the simulations. Apparently the the experiment, and to Maris Alberts, Una Bike, interface of the Garp3 software behaves in a way that Peteris Bruns and their co-workers for providing us is intuitive for this generation of students. The the opportunity to work with Latvian students to test treatment was also effective in creating a significant our ideas and software. learning effect. Particularly, after removing the subjects who scored very high on the pre-test (≥ 30 correct), the subjects in the treatment group (N=16) scored an average of 26.95 points on the post-test Literature (with 23.25 points on the pre-test), while the subjects • Salles, P., Bredeweg, B., and Nuttle, T. (2005) in the control group (N=21) scored an average of Qualitative Models of Indicators of Environmental 21.05 points on the post-test (with 20.24 points on Sustainability of the Millennium Development the pre-test). This turned out to be a statistically Goals. 2nd MONET Workshop on Model-Based significant difference using a t-test (P<0.001). Being Systems (MONET 05) at the 19th International able to achieve this result within the short duration of Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI- the experiment creates promises for the impact the 05), Picardi, C., Salles, P. and Wotawa, F. (eds.), Garp3 software may deliver when it is used pages 66-72, Edinburgh, Scotland, 30 July. systematically on a variety of topics in an educational context. Events of interest NATURNET - REDIME workshop - Tools And International European 1st EAAE Forum on Methods For Raisining Awareness of Sustainable Innovation and System Dynamics in Food Development Networks th Bruxelles, 29 November 2006, INTEREL, Avenue 15-17 February 2007 INNSBRUCK - IGLS – Austria. de Tervuren 402, Brussels, 1150 Belgium. Organized The objective of this Forum is to provide an by The Vysocina Region (CZ) & the NaturNet- interdisciplinary discussion environment that supports Redime Team creativity and exchange to foster the development of new ideas for innovative and interdisciplinary Contact: ccss@ccss.cz research in the agri-food sector. Contact: Melanie FRITZ Email: m.fritz(a)uni-bonn.de http://www.uf.uni-bonn.de/innovation2007/ 15 th Conference in Agricultural Labour Science 5th International Conference on Ecological 5 – 6 March 2007 Vienna Informatics ISEI5 The conference is organised by Max-Eyth-Society for Agricultural Engineering of the VDI and the University December 4th-6th, 2006 Santa Barbara, CA, USA. of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Novel Computational Techniques for Improved Vienna. Management, Understanding and Forecasting of Complex Ecological Data Contact: Prof.Dr.J.BOXBERGER E-mail: josef.boxberger(a)boku.ac.at http://www.isei5-conference.elsevier.com/ http://www.nas.boku.ac.at/akal-seminar.html 12
  • 13. SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME Educational programmes on social, economic, and environmental tools for the implementation of the EU Strategy on Sustainable Development at both EU and international levels NATURNET-REDIME New Education and Decision Support Model for Active Behaviour in Sustainable Development Based on Innovative Web Services and Qualitative Reasoning Project no. 004074 Instrument: SPECIFIC TARGETED RESEARCH PROJECT Thematic Priority: SUSTDEV-2004-3.VIII.2.e Start date of project: 1st March 2005 Duration : 30 months Web : http ://www.naturnet.org Project officer Daniel Deybe Daniel.DEYBE@cec.eu.int Project co-funded by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Programme (2002-2006) Co-odinator Contact person Country E-mail Czech Centre for Science and Society Karel Charvat CZ ccss@ccss.cz Partner Contact person Country E-mail Environmental Network Ltd Peter Barz UK pkab@env-net.com http://www.env-net.com/ Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg Barbara Koch DE barbara.koch@felis.uni-freiburg.de https://portal.uni-freiburg.de/felis/ Municipality of Francavilla di Sicilia Nino Paterno IT npat@stepim.it http://www.stepim.it/ Gymnazium Bozeny Nemcove Jan Sterba CZ sterba@gybon.cz http://www.gybon.cz/ INNOVATION. Grenzüberschreitendes Netzwerk e.V Frank Hoffmann DE 320052219146@t-online.de http://www.IGN-SN.de Institute of Mathematics and Comp. Science, Univ. of Latvia Maris Alberts LV alberts@acad.latnet.lv http://www.lumii.lv/ Joanneum Research Alexander Almer AT alexander.almer@joanneum.at http://dib.joanneum.at/ KRIMULDA - Municipality Juris Salmins LV krimulda@rrp.lv APIF MOVIQUITY SA Wendy Moreno ES wmp@moviquity.com http://www.moviquity.com/ Mission TIC de la Collectivité Territoriale de Corse Jerome Granados FR jerome.granados@mitic.corse.fr http://www.mitic.corse.fr Region Vysocina Jiri Hiess CZ Hiess.J@kr-vysocina.cz University of Jena, Institute of Ecology Tim Nuttle DE Tim.Nuttle@uni-jena.de http://www.uni-jena.de/ecology.html Michael Neumann mn@mneum.de Human Computer Studies Laboratory, Inform atics Institute, Bert Bredeweg NL http://hcs.science.uva.nl/~bredeweg Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam http://hcs.science.uva.nl/projects/NNR/ Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Central Laboratory of Yordan Uzunov BG uzunov@ecolab.bas.bg General Ecology (CLGE) Danube Delta National Instit. for Research and Developm ent Eugenia Cioaca RO eugenia958@yahoo.co.uk http://www.indd.tim.ro/ University of Brasilia, Institute of Biological Sciences Paulo Salles BR psalles@unb.br University of Hull, International Fisheries Institute Ian Cowx UK i.g.cowx@hull.ac.uk University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Stefan Schmutz AT stefan.schmutz@boku.ac.at Department of Hydrobiology, Fisheries and Aquaculture 13