Climascope

AAG Meeting in Seattle 12-16 April 2011

a Google Earth® open platform to cross scientific and social network communicative efforts on climate change topics.

CLIMATE SCOPE:

Presenter : Dr. Ramona Magno

Authors: Valentina Grasso, Alfonso Crisci, Ramona Magno, Valerio Capecchi

Information & Communication on climate change & energy savings at LOCAL LEVEL.

Information & Engage for LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS:

Schools Families Public Stakeholders

RACESRaising Awareness on Climate and Energy Savings

Leader: Florence Municipality Partners: CNR – Institute of Biometeorology; Modena Municipality; Fondazione E. Mach (TN); EURO-NET; University of Bari

5 Italian cities: Firenze, Modena, Trento, Potenza and Bari

RACES paradigm

• “Communicate Climate change”

• Information is not enough to change

• Transform awareness in ACTION

• Get involved in something concrete

• Where? In town!

RACES paradigm

Raising awareness

Participation

Information production

Global / Local impacts

- Meeting scientist and people- People contribute to better understand reality - User generated contents

Public participation different approach:

1. Limited to provide data to public

2. Public participation in environmental monitoring

Environmental monitoring

Public Participation in science

Both are pushing towards a new type of monitoring in which knowledge from

experts and from laypeople coexists.

Volounteer-collected data can include:– Opinion through written or spoken messages

– Objective and factual information (text, photo, sketches, videos)

– Measurements using sensors

Dissemination of this information is difficult and

not structured

ICT and WEB 2.0 change the nature of the

process

Not only the DATA COLLECTION but a new way of cooperation

VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES

User generated content

– Use geographic environment to understand climate change dynamics

– Easy & Powerful visual tool

– Integrate climatic information layers with “local observations” uploaded by teachers and students

– Disseminate schools’ activities using geographic environment

– Contents/data sharing to produce “volunteered geographic information” (Goodchild 2007)

Google Earth and Web 2.0 opportunities CLIMATE-SCOPE

CLIMATE-SCOPE stones

Informative global /regional layering

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Citizen Intellingent Placemarking+

Scientific authoring & Supportdirectly inside the view

+Aggregative Mashup-ing

from other source thanks web 2.0 (i.e GeoRSS, Geo feed)

Thank you for your attention