HTML Document About the Environmental technology atlas

Release date 01/06/2007
Contributor EnviroWindows team
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The Atlas is a new web-based geographic service to assist the public to locate environmental technology and eco-efficient innovation players in the world. It is a gateway to relevant information but it does not replace the original data sources. (See 25 slide presentation in PPT format)

  • Categories -- three types of environmental technology information in Europe:

  1. knowledge centres dealing with ecoinnovation and technology R&D,
  2. manufacturing companies and
  3. main technology installations

  • Types --  for each category

  1. Resource management
  2. Pollution management
  3. Monitoring and forecasting
  4. Integrated approaches

  • Support to the Environmental Technology Action Plan (ETAP) -- The atlas further contributes to Action 4 concerning the development of existing directories and databases on environmental technologies.

  • Data -- the data currently accessible come from a wide range of national business directories, yellow pages, online databases, and Chamber of Commerce member lists.

  • Data sources -- for each record  information and a link to the source is provided.

  • Benefits -- linking users and producers, knowledge providers and innovators, as well as raising awareness more generally about the fast growing and widespread role of environmental technology products and services in our society thus leading to their greater use and uptake.

  •  Filtering -- allows the user to search a number of points which may be displayed to cover only a single type of technology. He or she can thereby identify at a glance technology clusters in a region, or retrieve more information on individual facilities.

  • Zooming -- also helps to restrict the search to a small location and identify the actual position on the map.

  •  Free listing -- the atlas offers businesses and organisations free of charge listing, which they can do online by filling in a simple form. Site visitors can submit new technologies sites. Submissions are subject to approval by the EEA to become visible on the map.