Содержание
домашней
страницы
веб-портала
Предисловие
Этот
веб-портал
был
разработан
в качестве пилот-проекта.
Финансирование
осуществлялось
Британским
Советом в
Киеве,
Украина.
Обычно,
веб-портал
для пилот-проекта
- это не
законченный
на 100% веб-сайт, который
не
нуждается
ни в каком
усовершенствовании.
В пределах
предоставленного
диапазона
времени, не
все тексты
могли быть
переведены
на 3 языка.
Целью было
предоставление
инструмента,
который в
будущем должен
быть
доработан.
Мы создали
этот веб-портал,
используя
два разных
пакета
программных
продуктов.
Первый
пакет (ARCIMS, ARCSDE),
разработанный
лидером
рынка
ГІС-продукции,
фирмой ESRI, был бесплатно
предоставлен
для
использования
официальным
дистрибьютором
ESRI в Украине,
фирмой ECOMM.
Второй – это
„открытая”
программа, которая
может быть бесплатно
загружена
из
интернета.
Информационные
материалы
были
собраны из
разнообразных
источников.
Мы хотим
выразить благодарность
всем тем
людям и
организациям,
которые
дали
разрешение
на
использование
их карт,
текстов и
баз данных.
Основной
вклад принадлежит
ООО " Intermedia Agency" (Intermedia Agency ),
предоставившему
„Екологический
атлас Киева”
(Ecological Atlas Kiev) 2006 года (60 стр.),
УБК 504 (084-4) (477-25).
Некоторые
тексты из
этого источника
были
обобщены,
сокращенны
и переведено
на английский
и русский.
Дополнительная
информация
была
получена от
НГО „Мама-86” и
от
сотрудников
Центра Экологического
Мониторинга
Украины.
Выражаем
благодарность
всем, кто
помог за их
разрешения
использовать
материалы,
которые
предоставили
нам
возможность
создать
этот веб-
портал для
более
широкой
общественности.
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Project title “Electronic Access
to environmental information to improve public participation in decision making
processes”
- Who should browse/read this website?
This website was designed for all those who care
about their environment and health. During the last decades, science has
increasingly proved that these two items are more close related than we have thought.
A sound environment is the basis of our live and attempts to destroy this
basis should have our interest before it is too late. People should be given
the opportunity to monitor their living basis and understand what is
happening and what will be the consequences. Correspondingly the target group
of this web portal is the citizens, including school children, students,
scientists and politicians who will be made accountable for their decisions.
- What should you know about?
There is a huge area of information that would be
worthwhile to know about. On the one hand, this includes all aspects of the
environment (air, water, soil – analyses and assessments), on the other hand,
information is needed on how to deal with that information. Therefore people
should not only be well informed on environmental problems but also find
selected information on the legal background, who are the responsible
authorities, where to get support from other citizens and how to raise more
public awareness.
2.1 state of the environment (until 2006)
·
Air
·
water
·
soil
General remarks: On this website we offer to retrieve environmental
information presented on maps. These maps are interactive, that means that
you can combine various environment related aspects and thus get a new
understanding of reasons and influencing factors. On the map you can see the
location of potential environment polluters and in some cases air, soil or
water quality around that place. There are however several problems connected
with that and this is important to keep in mind:
- Available information
is scarce. There are many geographical and chronological gaps.
- Information is not
collected centrally to reduce the amount of gaps.
- Existing information is
often not available
- Information is
outdated; daily, monthly and often even yearly updates do not exist.
- Information assessment
is not sufficient for many reasons
- Health related
assessments can not combine various environmental and health aspects.
For example it will not be reported here how the daily uptake of
pesticides on food strengthens the effect of bad air quality
(benz-a-pyren) and what is their importance compared with alcohol or
nicotine misuse.
3.2
The legal background:
* National directives, norms,
right to know
* Int. conventions
Since independence of Ukraine people can make use of a new freedom
that supports independent thinking and acting. To support this behaviour,
citizens should know their rights and learn how to make use of it. If
individuals form a group they gain even more power that can move many things
into the right direction. Therefore we have started here to gather materials
that can help to get first information on relevant legislation. This can not
and should not replace the work of professional jurists but it can give a
first introduction into the matter.
3.3 What is actually
going on/ changing in Kiev?......... for example:
· Plans to change landscapes
· Plans to change waste management
· Drinking water issues
· Urban transport planning
Kiev is a big and quickly growing city and it is the Ukrainian
capital. This makes it difficult to keep an eye on everything and to know who
is planning to change environment or health related issues. There are
different information sources that have to be mentioned and that should also
be approached to get a more complete picture. Various NGOs, journalist
associations and state and city authorities have websites or publish relevant
information. Such information sources are gathered
HERE. What is actually
going on in Kiev is only partly reported in the media. This website
should help to spread information that is not reported or give additional
information helping to understand the problem.
4
News, problems,
accidents, latest political issues (links, reports, …)
If this chapter will be successful and helpful
depends from YOUR cooperation. If all people communicate environmental problems
by writing into our forum, sending emails or just make a phone call then this
will become interesting for all of us. If there is a bigger community who
participates in such a process, it will be worthwhile asking experts adding
their comments or assessments.
5
Place your
comments: tell us, what you worry about (guestbook)
A open book for your comments seems to us the best
way to QUICKLY publish urgent problems and all other questions that should be
shared with many other people. It does not require much preparation or
knowledge, people should just write what they see, hear or mean like on the
phone. Others will ask questions or send their own comments. There are
different categories for different subjects. For school children there could
be a special section etc.
6
How you can get
engaged
· NGOs (links, addresses, telephone, etc.)
You are not alone. Many people are concerned like
you are, but they can not speak to each other and act together because
they do not know where to go and try to meet the others. The website will
also show some opportunities to scope with that. First of all, we have put
together addresses of NGOs who are waiting for your active support. Just
contact them and see what they do.
· Contacting the authorities (what should be reported, who
should be contacted, how to prepare information materials)
Another way is to approach the responsible authorities. We think it might be
helpful to be prepared for that. As mentioned above you can have a first look
at the legislative background and you can exchange information and
standpoints with other concerned people. Thereafter you will be better
prepared to explain your standpoint and this will help to activate the
responsible employees of the administrations, ministries, committees and so
on.
· Reporting to the media?
If all this does not help and even before that you
should also think about giving information to the media. Other citizens who
still did not have contact to the Internet, to NGOs and are just not
yet informed will be grateful to listen, see or read what is going on around
their living places. Depending on the subject you can write own articles or
deliver materials to the press (newspapers, journals, leaflets).
Now we wish you a successful start. Please write
comments and proposals in our guestbook or by email to:
mi-hoffmann@gmx.net
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