Sustainable development and governance: The role of policy decision systems (Contributo in atti di convegno)

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  • Sustainable development and governance: The role of policy decision systems (Contributo in atti di convegno) (literal)
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  • 2007-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • Trombino G.; Pirrone N.; Cinnirella S. (2007)
    Sustainable development and governance: The role of policy decision systems
    in Conference on Research for Sustainable Development in Europe Sustainable Neighbourhood - from Lisbon to Leipzig Trough Research (L2L), Leipzig, Germany, 8-10 May
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  • Trombino G.; Pirrone N.; Cinnirella S. (literal)
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  • Sustainable development and governance: The role of policy decision systems (literal)
Abstract
  • One of the major debate in Europe in the field of environmental protection is on the need to develop Policy Decision Systems able to support the complex mechanisms driving the development and implementation of the European policy taking into account the governance of stakeholders interest and social conflicts. Current models of governance are not based on the concept of environmental sustainability but are primarily driven to mediate economical interests between different stakeholders without paying very much attention to social interests and environmental quality. Traditional models of governance are often hierarchically organized, exploitative, view humans as dominant over nature, and imply that the world can sustain an unlimited economic growth. New models for a modern environmental governance should be developed including tools and methodologies derived from research activities aiming to support the development of tools that integrate the concept of Environmental Governance into Policy Decision Systems aiming to facilitate the achievement of a Sustainable Development as required by the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. As part of past European Commission framework programmes, several projects (i.e., MAMCS: http://www.cs.iia.cnr.it/MAMCS/project.htm, EUROCAT: http://www.cs.iia.cnr.it/EUROCAT/project.htm, ELME http://www.cs.iia.cnr.it/elme.htm, MERCYMS: http://www.cs.iia.cnr.it/MERCYMS/project.htm), were aimed to develop integrated policy decision support systems for Integrated River Basin-Coastal Zone Management (for the Po Basin-Adriatic Sea coastal zone continuum) and for phasing chemical pollution in the Mediterranean Region (i.e., mercury). These integrated systems are based on the concept of the Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework (see Figure 1) which is extensively used for a number of environmental applications including urban air pollution, integrated coastal zone and river basin management, and large scale environmental assessments. In the framework of the above mentioned European projects the DPSIR approach was used as basis for assessing the impact and identify possible strategies for limiting or/and controlling the eutrophication in the Po Basin-Adriatic Coastal Zone system, for phasing and possibly reducing the impact of chemical pollution in the Mediterranean Sea and its impact on other surrounding regions. Our approach (see Figure 1) analysed several socio-economic scenarios including the Business-As-Usual (BAU) scenarios and Policy Target Scenarios (POT). The BAU scenarios provide a possible picture of the environmental quality status of the Mediterranean Sea in case any measures is taken to achieve an eco-sustainable management of environmental resources, whereas the POT scenarios depict different environmental quality objectives that would be achieved at different stages of implementation of European directives (i.e., air quality directives, Water Framework Directive) and international conventions (i.e., OSPAR, MEDPOL). (literal)
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