IAV data needs: perspectives from IGBP

1. IAV data needs: perspectives from IGBP Sybil P. Seitzinger International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Stockholm

2. Overall needs • Developing country perspective

3. Overall needs • Developing country perspective

4. 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)

5. 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)

6. Distribution FLUXNET sites From www.fluxnet.ornl.gov

7. FLUXNET Networks and Land Cover From www.fluxnet.ornl.gov

8. 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)

9. 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)

10. 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)

11. Overall needs • Developing country perspective

12. Developing country perspectives IAV Workshop - Nov. 2009 – Brazil co-sponsored IGBP, IPCC, ESSP and START 22 developing countries, 5 developed

13. 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

14. 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)

15. Major challenges • Data poor and limited data access • Intensity of multiple stresses (envir & societal)

16. Major challenges • Data poor and limited data access • Intensity of multiple stresses (envir & societal) Mexico City Air pollution Water stress Poverty + Climate change Patricia Romero Lankao

17. 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

18. Major challenges • Data poor and limited data access • Intensity of multiple stresses (envir & societal) • Goverance structures often lacking

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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/validation Do these systems work in face of climate change

22. Multi-scale assessment Monitoring systems & models Indigenous knowledge, participation & experiments Observation systems & models Source: Reyers, B., SAfMA Lessons Learned (Panama, June 2002)

23. Identify hotspots using local knowledge, basin and regional obs and models Source: Reyers, B., SAfMA Lessons Learned (Panama, June 2002)

24. 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

25. IAV data needs: perspectives from IGBP Sybil.Seitzinger@IGBP.kva.se www.IGBP.net

27. Zambezi Okavango Gariep Multi-scale assessment SADC region Basin Local Source: Reyers, B., SAfMA Lessons Learned (Panama, June 2002) Source: Reyers, B., SAfMA Lessons Learned (Panama, June 2002)