Зміст домашньої сторінки
веб-порталу
Передмова
Цей веб-портал було розроблено в якості
пілот-проекту.
Фінансування здійснювалось
Британською Радою в Києві, Україна.
Зазвичай,
веб-портал для пілот-проекту
- це не закінчений на 100% веб-сайт,
що не потребує ніякого удосконалення. В межах
наданого
діапазону часу, не
всі
тексти могли бути
перекладені на 3 мови.
Метою було надання інструменту, який в майбутньому має
бути
доопрацьваний.
Ми створили цей веб-портал,
використовуючи два різних пакети програмних продуктів.
Перший пакет (ArcIMS,
ArcSDE),
розроблений лідером ринку ГІС-продукції,
фірмою
ESRI,
було безкоштовно надано для використання
офіційним дистриб’ютором
ESRI в Україні, фірмою
ECOMM.
Другий – це „відкрита” програма, що може бути безкоштовно
завантажена з
інтернету.
Інформаційні матеріали було зібрано з різноманітних джерел.
Ми хочемо висловити подяку всім тим людям та організаціям,
що дали дозвіл на використання їх карт, текстів та баз
даних.
Основний внесок належить
ТОВ "Агенство Інтермедіа"
,
що надало „Екологічний атлас Києва”
(Ecological
Atlas
Kiev)
2006
року
(60
стор.),
УБК
504 (084-4) (477-25).
Деякі тексти з цього джерела
було узагальнено, скорочено та перекладено англійської і
російською.
Додаткову інформацію було отримано від
НГО
„Мама-86”
від співробітників Центру Екологічного Моніторингу України.
Висловлюємо подяку
всім,
хто допоміг
за їх дозвіл,
який надав
нам можливість
створити
цей
веб- портал для ширшої
громадськості.
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_ _ _ _ _
(to be translated:)
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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