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All these applications historical, current, or predictive~epend on science-based measurements, gathered and analyzed within a formal or informal information system framework. In many cases, an established process exists for exchanging, compiling, and interpreting environmental data nationally and internationally.
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Five major groups of stakeholders, each of which has different goals, generate and/or use environmental information: 1. scientists involved in generating and interpreting data; 2.
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solutions that have worked in the past. Because most of the information used by environmental scientists is currently collected by government agencies and managed in inflation systems, the committee focused on environmental information systems created purely or partly for public purposes.
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10 The Privatization of Environmental Data does not yet exist in the United States, even though five bills have been introduced in Congress. Similarly, database legislation in Europe (the European Union Database Directive)
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