The Role of Environmental Monitoring in the
Green Economy Strategy
K Nathan Hill
March 2010
Objectives for Green Economy Strategy
Secondment in Environmental Monitoring
• Develop a high level roadmap for NERC
Knowledge Exchange activities in the
Environmental Monitoring domain
• Develop a set of strategic goals linked to NERC
strategy and a tactical plan for achieving these
goals.
– Including organisational aspects within NERC,
relationships with industry and stakeholders, and
resources required
The Green Economy
• The term “Green Economy” has been used to
describe the emerging economy which
– Makes optimal use of environmental resources and
processes
– Understands environmental constraints and the process
of environmental change
– Develops and implements technologies and solutions
that ensure environmental sustainability
Environmental Markets:
FTSE Environmental Opportunities Index
This index, with 472 constituent companies (104 UK based), is one way of
measuring that part of the economy that considers itself to be dependent on
the environment as providing the enabling opportunity for its business
Renewable & Alternative Energy
Energy Efficiency
Water Infrastructure & Technologies
Pollution Control
Waste Management & Technologies
Environmental Support Services
Measurement Capability
Industry acts as provider and customer
Deployment in the Environment
Definition of Environmental Monitoring
This is what we mean by Environmental Monitoring:
- Capability: tools, technologies, techniques
- And its deployment in Environmental Measurement
Dissemination of Capability is the Real
Added Value of NERC Science
Environmental Monitoring Underpins
Green Economy Sectors
A Diffusion Model for Environmental
Monitoring Knowledge Exchange in the
Green Economy Strategy
Technology / Capability
Management Strategy
Capability
Diffusion
Strategy
Strategy Implications 2
Capability
Diffusion
Strategy
A Diffusion Model for Environmental
Monitoring Knowledge Exchange in the
Green Economy Strategy
Technology / Capability
Management Strategy
A New Definition?
• Our broad definition of the scope of Environmental
Monitoring thus covers the first two blocks:
• Capability
– Technologies, techniques, tools and facilities to model and
measure the environment. These comprise platforms, instruments
(and their component technologies), modelling & simulation, data
analysis, data storage and management.
• Deployment
– Measuring and modelling the environment through application of
the Capabilities described above. This activity of environmental
modelling and measurement is the key to generating information
that leads to environmental understanding.
Capability Management Strategy
• Maps 1:1 to Technology Theme and elements of
National Capability
• Environmental Monitoring Industrial Policy
• Industry is both supplier and potential beneficiary
• This is encapsulated in the phrase “NERC: The
Expert Customer for Environmental Monitoring”
Underpinning Environmental Monitoring
Systems
Engineering
Modelling &
Simulation
Platform Selection
Sensor &
Instrument
Technologies
Deployment
Calibration &
Metrology
Sample
Preparation &
Handling
Power
Signal Processing
& Analysis
Storage &
Curation
Communications
& Telemetry
Data Handling
Hardware in Loop
Space
Sensor /
Instrument
Selection
System
Optimisation
UAV
Miniaturisation &
Microsystems
Electronic &
Radiation
Ruggedness
Power Sources &
Generation
etc.
Multi-parameter
Instruments
Physical &
Thermal
Ruggedness
Power
Management
Sensor Networks
Environment
Data Acquisition
Systems
Data
Management
Focus areas
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Remote Sensing
Environmental Monitoring Services
Sensor Networks
Sensor / Instrument Deployment