Debrecen Environmental Control System
Debrecen Environmental Control System
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Main elements of the scientific programme:
1. Air quality research: the air working group will provide air quality data in the form of online maps by establishing fixed stations and using the data to produce local, regional and long-term forecasts using advanced modelling. New in the field of urban environmental assessment is the monitoring of biological agents (aerobiota) in the air. The Air Task Force has also set up noise monitoring. In addition to colleagues from the University of Debrecen, the working group includes experts from the HUN-REN Nuclear Research Institute.
2. Water quality monitoring: the working group monitors the hydrology, hydraulics, water chemistry, water biology of surface and groundwater (so-called hydrological systems), as well as evaporation, infiltration and run-off of urban green areas and urban soils using best available techniques (BAT) and various indicators. The working group includes the University of Debrecen, the Tiszántúli Water Management Directorate (TIVIZIG) and the Debrecen Waterworks Ltd.
3. Soil quality monitoring: the aim of soil monitoring is to systematically record the spatial distribution and temporal changes of soil properties, to monitor the impact of natural changes and human interventions on soil, to record soil degradation processes and soil contamination, to prevent and mitigate them.
4 Biodiversity surveys: the Debrecen urban and peri-urban surveys cover both species and habitats, as well as monitoring of trends and impacts. The planning area is within the administrative boundaries of Debrecen, and surveys include botanical, airborne pollen, arthropod surveys, but also monitoring changes in priority habitat types.
5. IT monitoring: one of the tasks of the system is to record and organise the measurement data and to develop the software environment (database, communication interfaces, data description structures, query systems, secure channels, etc.). The second is to extend the capabilities of the basic system, further developing the system by also launching the development of a decision support system based on master intelligence.
6. Legal-economic working group: its main task is to synthesise the sectoral proposals for legal regulation coming from the working groups, to translate the needs expressed in scientific rigour into legal standardisation, to manage the legislative process and to prepare a business plan for sustainability on the basis of the technical parameters agreed.