Earth:Societal Benefit Areas

The Societal Benefit Areas (SBAs) are eight environmental fields of interest, all of which relate to climate, around which the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) project is exerting its efforts. These include: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Sustainability, Disaster Resilience, Energy and Mineral Resources Management, Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture, Infrastructure and Transport Management, Public Health Surveillance, Sustainable Urban Development, and Water Resources Management around which a preliminary hierarchical vocabulary has been created. One of the aims of GEOSS is to implement a proper system of Earth monitoring and to render information deriving from this process available to a global range of users. Currently, the hierarchical vocabulary structuring these societal benefit categories and their subcategories are available only in English. However, translations have been created for French, Spanish and Italian versions by Claudia Cialone and Kristin Stock of the Centre for Geospatial Science (CGS) at the University of Nottingham, UK, with input from a number of people from the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) in Italy, the University of Zaragoza and the European Union Joint Research Centre (JRC). Translations have also been accomplished for a Slovenian version of the SBAs by the Biotehnical faculty of the University of Ljubljana, SI.

The GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas

Listed below is a brief summary of the Societal Benefit categories and subcategories

Disaster Resilience

Further information: disaster management and resilience (organizational)

This SBA is meant to increase the system of the earth observation to protect human lives from natural hazards such as tsunami, sea and lake ice, floods, volcanic eruptions, wild fires etc.

Public Health Surveillance

Further information: Public Health Surveillance

The health SBA is meant to understand and to prevent the environmental factors related to human diseases. Some subcategories included in this concern infectious diseases, respiratory problems, environmental stress, accidental death and injury and so forth.

Energy and mineral resource management

Further information: energy management and mineral resources

This SBA is concerned with the preservation and the operations related to energetic sources, and their renewability. Some examples of subcategories for this field are: oil & gas exploration, refining and transport operations, renewable energy operations, global energy management etc..

Water resources management

Further information: water management and water resources

The water topic is inherent to hydrological research, evaluation and management and the impact of humans on the water cycle. The area includes subfields of interest such as global biogeochemistry, fisheries and habitat, telecommunication and navigation, predictions etc.

Infrastructure and transport

Further information: transport and infrastructure

This category provides information for Earth observations support for planning, monitoring and management of infrastructure (dams, roads, rail, ports and pipelines) and transportation (air, land and sea).

Food security and sustainable agriculture

Further information: food security and sustainable agriculture

This field of concern embraces all those agricultural activities, or related subjects such as grazing systems, the economic trade of agricultural products, for monitoring the global condition of food including the prevention of desertification.

Biodiversity and ecosystem sustainability

Further information: biodiversity, sustainability, and ecosystem

This area is meant to disseminate information related to the investigation on the genetic diversity of species and more generally on the natural resources of the different ecosystems and the services available for their conservation.

The Societal Benefit Areas and their translations

Note that the following table is a temporary translation. Anyone with a particular expertise in environmental and/or natural sciences can contribute with further (verified and checked) corrections of the versions already listed below.

ENGLISH	ITALIAN	SPANISH	FRENCH	SLOVENIAN
Disasters	Calamità	Desastres	Catastrophes	Nesreče
pollution events	eventi inquinanti	episodios de contaminación	pollution évènementielle	pojavi onesnaženja
coastal hazards, tsunami	rischio costiero, tsunami	peligros costeros, tsunamis	périls côtiers, tsunami	nevarnosti v priobalnem pasu, cunamiji
sea and lake ice	ghiaccio marino e lacustre	Hielo en mares y lagos	gel de la mer et de lac	morski in jezerski led
tropical cyclones	cicloni tropicali	ciclones tropicales	cyclones tropicaux	tropski cikloni
extreme weather	condizioni metereologiche estreme	condiciones meteorológicas extremas	Phénomène météo extrême	skrajni vremenski dogodki
floods	inondazioni	inundaciones/avenidas	inondations	poplave
landslides, subsidence	frane, subsidenza	deslizamientos de tierra, hundimientos	glissements de terrain, effondrements	zemeljski plazovi in posedanje
volcanoes, volcanic ash, aerosols	vulcani, ceneri vulcaniche, aerosol	volcanes, ceniza volcánica, aerosoles	volcans, cendres volcaniques, aérosols	vulkani, vulkanski pepel, aerosoli
earthquakes	terremoti	terremotos	tremblements de terre	potresi
wildland fires	incendi boschivi	incendios forestales	feu de broussailles et feu de forêtes	požari v naravnem okolju
Health	Salute	Salud	Santé	Zdravje
infectious diseases	malattie infettive	enfermedades infecciosas	maladies infectieuses	infekcijske bolezni
cancers	cancri	cáncer	cancers	rakasta obolenja
respiratory problems	difficoltà respiratorie	dificultades respiratorias	problèmes respiratoires	težave z dihanjem
environmental stress	stress ambientale	estrés ambiental	stress écologique	okoljski stres
nutrition	nutrizione	nutrición	nutrition	prehrana
accidental death and injury	morti e lesioni accidentali	muertes y lesiones accidentales	décès et blessure accidentelles	poškodbe in nesreče s smrtnim izidom
birth defects	difetti di nascita	enfermedades congénitas	anomalies congénitales	prirojene napake
Energy	Energia	Energía	Énergie	Energija
oil & gas exploration	esplorazione di petrolio e gas	exploración de petróleo y gas	exploration de pétrole et de gaz	iskanje nafte in zemeljskega plina
refining and transport operations	operazioni di raffinazione e trasporto	operaciones de refinado y transporte	opérations de l’épuration et la transportation	rafinacija in upravljanje prevozov fosilnih goriv
renewable energy operations	operazioni di energia rinnovabile	operaciones en energías renovables	opérations d’energie renouvelable	upravljanje z obnovljivimi viri energije
electricity generation	produzione di elettricità	producción de electricidad	production d’électricité	proizvodnja električne energije
global energy management	gestione dell’energia globale	gestión de la energía global	gestion de l’énergie mondiale	gospodarjenje z energijo na globalnem nivoju
Climate	Clima	Clima	Climat	Podnebje
understanding	comprensione	comprensión	compréhension	razumevanje
assessing	valutazioni	evaluación	évaluation	ocenjevanje
predicting	previsioni	predicción	prédiction	napovedovanje
adapting to	adattamento	adaptación	adaptation(au)	prilagajanje
mitigating	mitigazione	mitigación	diminution	blaženje
Water	Acqua	Agua	Eau	Voda
water cycle research	ricerca sul ciclo idrologico	investigación sobre el ciclo hidrológico	recherche sur le cycle de l’eau	raziskave vodnega kroga
resource management	gestione delle risorse	gestión de recursos hídricos	gestion des resources	gospodarjenje z vodnimi viri
impacts of humans on water cycle	impatto dell’uomo sul ciclo idrologico	impacto de la actividad humana en el ciclo hidrológico	impacts humains sur le cycle de l’eau	vpliv človeka na vodni krog
global biogeochemistry	biogeochimica globale	biogeoquímica global	biogéochimie mondiale	globalna biogeokemija
ecosystem and water quality assessment	valutazione della qualita’ dell’ ecosistema e dell’acqua	evaluación de la calidad del ecosistema y del agua	évaluation de la qualité de l’écosystème et de l’eau	ekosistemi in ocena kakovosti voda
land use planning	pianificazione dell’uso del territorio	ordenación del territorio	Urbanisme	načrtovanje rabe tal
production of food	produzione alimentare	producción alimentaria	production alimentaire	pridelava hrane
weather prediction	previsioni metereologiche	pronóstico meteorológico	prévision météorologique	napovedovanje vremena
heavy rainfall flood prediction	previsione di pioggia intensa ed inondazioni	predicción de lluvia torrencial e inundaciones	prévision des fortes précipitations et des inondations	napovedovanje poplav zaradi močnih padavin
drought prediction	previsione di siccità	predicción de sequías	prévision de la sécheresse	napovedovanje suš
climate prediction	previsioni climatiche	predicción climatológica	prévision climatique	napovedovanje podnebja
human health	salute dell’uomo	salud humana	santé humaine	zdravje ljudi
fisheries and habitat	pesca e habitat	pesca y hábitat	pêcheries et habitat	ribolovna območja in habitati
management	gestione	gestión	gestion	upravljanje
telecommunication - navigation	telecomunicazioni - navigazione	telecomunicaciones - navegación	télécommunications - navigation	telekomunikacije – navigacija
Weather	Tempo	Tiempo	Temps	Vreme
nowcasting forecasts (0 - 2 hs)	previsioni immediate (0 - 2 ore)	predicciones inmediatas (0 - 2 horas)	prévisiones immediate (0 - 2 hs)	zelo kratkoročne napovedi (0 - 2 uri)
very short-range forecasts (2 - 72 hs)	previsioni a brevissimo termine (2 - 72 ore)	predicciones a muy corto plazo (2 - 72 horas)	prévisiones à très court terme (2 - 72 hs)	kratkoročne napovedi (2 - 72 uri)
medium-range forecasts (3 – 10 days)	previsioni a medio termine (3 - 10 giorni)	predicciones a medio plazo (3 - 10 días)	prévisiones à moyen terme (3 - 10 jours)	srednjeročne napovedi (3-10 dni)
extended forecasts (10 – 30 days)	previsioni estese (10 - 30 giorni)	predicciones a largo plazo (10 - 30 días)	prévisiones à long terme (10 - 30 jours)	dolgoročne napovedi (10 - 30 dni)
Ecosystems	Ecosistemi	Ecosistemas	Écosystèmes	Ekosistemi
land, river, coast & ocean management	gestione territoriale, fluviale, costiera e marittima	gestión terrestre, fluvial, costera y marítima	gestion des terres, rivières, gestion côtière et océnanique	gospodarjenje s kopnim, rekami,obalami in oceni
agriculture, fisheries, forestry	agricoltura, pesca, attività forestali	agricultura, pesca, silvicultura	agriculture, pêcherie, sylviculture	kmetijstvo, ribištvo, gozdarstvo
carbon cycle	ciclo del carbonio	ciclo del carbono	cycle du carbone	ogljikov krog
Agriculture	Agricoltura	Agricultura	Agriculture	Kmetijstvo
food security	sicurezza alimentare	seguridad alimentaria	sécurité alimentaire	prehranska varnost
fisheries	pesca	pesca	pêcheries	ribogojstvo
timber, fuel and fiber	legname, combustibile e fibra	madera, combustible, y fibra	bois, combustibles et fibres	les ter energenti in vlakna iz kmetijske in gozdarske biomase
agricultural economy and trade	economia e mercato agricoli	economía y mercado agrícolas	économie et commerce agricoles	kmetijska ekonomika in trgovina
grazing systems	sistemi di pascolamento	sistemas de pastoreo	systèmes de pâturage	pašni sistemi
Biodiversity	Biodiversità	Biodiversidad	Biodiversité	Biodiverziteta
conservation	conservazione	conservación	conservation	ohranjanje
invasive species	specie invasive	especies invasoras	espèces invasives	invazivne vrste
migratory species	specie migratorie	especies migratorias	espèces migratrices	selitvene vrste
natural resources and services	risorse naturali e servizi	recursos naturales y servicios	resources naturelles et services des écosystèmes	naravni viri in storitve

See also

• GEO Societal Benefits

External links

• Group on Earth Observation GEOSS on-line
• GEO portal
• GEO FAC