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<h1>e-EcoRisk</h1>
<p>Regional Enterprise Network Decision-Support System for Environmental Risk and Disaster Management of Large-Scale Industrial Spills</p>
<h2>Abstract</h2>
<p>e-EcoRisk will create a regional enterprise network information management and decision-support system that will provide environmental and civil protection agencies and other relevant organisations with improved information and insight into the potential and actual risks (impact) to the environment of a large-scale industrial spill, using innovative information technology. It will use the catastrophic rupture or overflow of mine tailings dams as the basis for formulating and structuring the system, with particular attention being paid to the requirements of environmental and civil protection agencies and related EU policies. The system will include environmental information from archive, field, air photo, and satellite remote sensing data, as well as social, economic, legal, and political considerations, in the risk assessment and decision-support process, to derive a comprehensive and holistic, and thereby improved, approach to environmental risk and disaster management, with particular attention being paid to RAMSAR and NATURA 2000 conservation areas.</p>
<p>e-EcoRisk will develop innovative spatial-temporal surface discharge models for analysing different environmental risk scenarios with respect to potential mine tailings dam spills, and include advanced visualisation tools and techniques to depict and present thematic and risk information in a readily comprehensible and usable manner. It will comprise an integrated information management and decision-support system for the integration and analysis of thematic and risk information on potential impact areas from mine tailings dam spills for support in environmental risk and disaster management decision-making. This will allow environmental and civil protection agencies at the local, regional, and national level, as well as non-governmental organisations (NGO's) and the general public, to access the system in real time from fixed and mobile wireless devices via a regional enterprise network (Internet), using terrestrial and satellite high-bandwidth telecommunication systems.</p>
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