IAV data needs: perspectives from IGBP

Sybil P. SeitzingerInternational Geosphere-Biosphere Programme

Stockholm

• Overall needs

• Developing country perspective

• Overall needs

• Developing country perspective

Lack of integration of obs– disciplinary

– not co-located

”I do fieldwork in my backyard”

– redundant investment

– undersampling

– limited capacity in critical regions

Lack integation natural and social/human dimensions obs

– Conceptual framework relating scales/regionalization

Lack coordination ground-based and space-based obs

Absence policy of free/open exchange scientific data (ecol. & soc sci)

Observation Issues (universal)

Lack of integration of obs– disciplinary

– not co-located

”I do fieldwork in my backyard”

– redundant investment

– undersampling

– limited capacity in critical regions

Lack integation natural and social/human dimensions obs

– Conceptual framework relating scales/regionalization

Lack coordination ground-based and space-based obs

Absence policy of free/open exchange scientific data (ecol. & soc sci)

Observation Issues (universal)

Distribution FLUXNET sites

From www.fluxnet.ornl.gov

FLUXNET Networks and Land Cover

From www.fluxnet.ornl.gov

Lack of integration of obs– disciplinary

– not co-located

”I do fieldwork in my backyard”

– redundant investment

– undersampling

– limited capacity in critical regions

Lack integation natural and social/human dimensions obs

– Conceptual framework relating scales/regionalization

Lack coordination ground-based and space-based obs

Absence policy of free/open exchange scientific data (ecol. & soc sci)

Observation Issues

Lack of integration of obs– disciplinary

– not co-located

”I do fieldwork in my backyard”

– redundant investment

– undersampling

– limited capacity in critical regions

Lack integation natural and social/human dimensions obs

– Conceptual framework relating scales/regionalization

Lack coordination ground-based and space-based obs

Absence policy of free/open exchange scientific data (ecol. & soc sci)

Observation Issues

Lack of integration of obs– disciplinary

– not co-located

”I do fieldwork in my backyard”– redundant investment

– undersampling

– limited capacity in critical regions

Lack integation natural & social/human dimensions obs– Conceptual framework relating scales/regionalization

Lack coordination ground- & space- based obs

Absence policy of free/open exchange sci data (ecol. & soc sci)

Observation Issues

• Overall needs

• Developing country perspective

Developing country perspectives

IAV Workshop - Nov. 2009 – Brazil

co-sponsored IGBP, IPCC, ESSP and START

22 developing countries, 5 developed

Major challenges

• Data poor and limited data access

• Intensity of multiple stresses (envir & societal)

• Goverance structures often lacking

• Local/indigenous knowledge systems poorly documented/validated

Major challenges and needs

• Data poor and limited data access

Data sharing –free, easily accessible format

Compilation/sharing existing approaches, tools, information, case studies

User friendly methods (for scientists, policy makers, other stakeholders)

Major challenges

• Data poor and limited data access

• Intensity of multiple stresses (envir & societal)

Major challenges

• Data poor and limited data access

• Intensity of multiple stresses (envir & societal)

Air pollutionWater stressPoverty+ Climate change

Mexico City

Patricia Romero Lankao

Major challenges and needs

• Data poor and limited data access

• Intensity of multiple stresses (envir & societal)

Identify vulnerable areas and drivers

Adaptation strategies relevant to DC

multiple stressors

consider development agenda

Separate climate change attribution from poor management

Major challenges

• Data poor and limited data access

• Intensity of multiple stresses (envir & societal)

• Goverance structures often lacking

Major challenges and needs

• Data poor and limited data access

• Intensity of multiple stresses (envir & societal)

• Goverance structures often lacking

Research on governance processes that enhance envir sustainability, human adaptation and reduce vulnerability

Major challenges and needs

• Data poor and limited data access

• Intensity of multiple stresses (envir & societal)

• Goverance structures often lacking

• Local/indigenous knowledge systems poorly documented/validated

Major challenges and needs

• Data poor and limited data access

• Intensity of multiple stresses (envir & societal)

• Goverance structures often lacking

• Local/indigenous knowledge systems poorly documented/validated

Documentation/validationDo these systems work in face of climate change

Multi-scale assessment

Observation systems& models

Monitoring systems &

models

Indigenous knowledge,

participation & experimentsSource: Reyers, B., SAfMA Lessons Learned (Panama, June 2002)

Identify hotspots using local knowledge, basin and regional obs and models

Source: Reyers, B., SAfMA Lessons Learned (Panama, June 2002)

Major challenges - developing countries

• Data poor and limited data access

• Intensity of multiple stresses (envir & societal)

• Goverance structures often lacking

• Local/indigenous knowledge systems poorly documented/validated

IAV data needs: perspectives from IGBP

Sybil.Seitzinger@IGBP.kva.se

www.IGBP.net

Multi-scale assessment

SADC region Local

Source: Reyers, B., SAfMA Lessons Learned (Panama, June 2002)

Basin

Zambezi

Gariep

Okavango

Source: Reyers, B., SAfMA Lessons Learned (Panama, June 2002)