Humans and environment : cause and effect analysis supported by spatial data infrastructures
Klein, Ulrike & Hartmut Muller
Climatic change, population change and rapid urbanization belong to the main challenges of the present time. For this reason designing a sustainable livingenvironment is one of the important aims of politics and government. Transdisciplinary cause and effect analysis and networked spatial thinking is required to tackle land use concurrencies, environmental degradation, and social problems and to support sustainable decision making for politics, government or even for each citizen. Spatial information can help to analyze the correlation and interaction between humans and environment from a spatio-cybernetic point of view. Ecological, economical and social indicators, based on the underlying data, can be used to simulate and to assess spatially related decisions. Extensive exchange of standardized spatial information between multiple stakeholders is needed to reach this goal. Spatially organized information about human-environment interactions is an indispensable precondition for the realization of such an exchange. At the same time, technical, legal and organizational conditions are to be fulfilled. Spatial Data Infrastructures initiatives like INSPIRE in Europe offer an essential basis for the adequate organization of spatial information. This paper provides a case study for a defined area in the Federal Republic of Germany. Effects of building a new house will be used to apply a holistic spatio-cybernetic model of humanenvironment connection based on chains of cause and effect, indicators and spatial data infrastructures.
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