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Abstract: Ever since “the environment” gained its place in the public international agenda (environmental legislation, sustainable development or disaster and hazard management) it has been bundled with data, information, knowledge and information systems. Environmental Monitoring Systems (EMSs), Environmental Monitoring and Analyzing Systems (EMASs) and especially Environmental Information Systems (EISs) are integrated part of what we call Environmental Informatics (EI) platform. As we speak the area of EI is becoming more complex due to the current context and trend of making the EISs available to the public and end-users access; this phenomena is based on the assumption that public and environmental information end-users awareness, participation and acting is improved by the rate of access to the environmental information to solve the complex problematic covered by the research, engineering and environmental protection fields. In this sense, Environmental Information plays a major role in environmental protection, planning, management and, of course, decision making. This working paper is a review of the historical development of environmental information systems, and it focuses on the creation, management, use and role of Environmental Information Systems; at the same time, the paper explores the typology of EISs and examined the common definitions of them in the light of these major issues: the concepts of data, information and knowledge in EISs, the connection between EISs and EI, the problems and obstacles to the development of EISs and finally, the emerging demand for public access via EISs and EI to environmental information and environmental protection, engineering and research.
Key words: Environmental Management Systems, Environmental Informatics, Environmental Information Systems
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