Concept And Implementation For A Regional Environmental Reporting: Aral Sea Coastal Region (Kazakhstan)

Research programs and environmental databases have been numerous over the years concerning the Aral Sea coastal region. They were often "data-rich but information-poor". The huge amount of efforts devoted either to scientific research or to actual action on the field requires a well-defined coordination in order to avoid unnecessary overlap. A conceptual framework for a unified system of regional environmental information is proposed which can facilitate communication. The widely used framework for organizing environmental informat