Vaughan Hague, Whitelaw Graham, Craig Brian, Stewart Craig
Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network Coordinating Office, Environment Canada, Canada Centre for Inland Waters, Burlington, ON, Canada L7R 4A6.
Environ Monit Assess. 2003 Oct-Nov;88(1-3):399-408. doi: 10.1023/a:1025593728986.
The paper describes the Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network's (EMAN) operational and program response to certain challenges of environmental monitoring in Canada, in particular, efforts to improve the ability of the network to deliver relevant information to decision makers. In addition to its familiar roles, environmental monitoring should deliver feedback to society on environmental changes associated with development patterns, trends, processes and interventions. In order for such feedback to be effective, it must be relevant, timely, useful and accessible: all characteristics that are defined by the user, not the provider. Demand driven environmental monitoring is explored through EMAN's experiences with Canada's Biosphere Reserves, the NatureWatch Program and the Canadian Community Monitoring Network.
本文描述了生态监测与评估网络（EMAN）针对加拿大环境监测的某些挑战所做出的业务和项目响应，特别是为提高该网络向决策者提供相关信息的能力所做的努力。除了其常见的作用外，环境监测还应就与发展模式、趋势、过程和干预措施相关的环境变化向社会提供反馈。为使这种反馈有效，它必须相关、及时、有用且易于获取：所有这些特性都是由用户而非提供者定义的。通过EMAN在加拿大生物圈保护区、自然观察计划和加拿大人社区监测网络方面的经验，探讨了需求驱动型环境监测。
