Environmental Monitoring and Assessment ( IF 3 ) Pub Date : 2021-09-03 , DOI: 10.1007/s10661-021-09421-3 Solomon Gebreyohannis Gebrehiwot 1, 2 , Woldeamlak Bewket 3 , Tefera Mengistu 4 , Hayat Nuredin 1 , Cristian Alarcon Ferrari 5 , Kevin Bishop 6
Monitoring and Assessment (M&A) of environmental resources aims to support the formulation of policies and follow up on outcomes of their implementation. In this study, the state of M&A is explored for Ethiopia with a focus on forests and water resources. The study is intended to serve as recommendations for future M&A applications in Ethiopia, as well as fulfillment of SDGs and other national and international commitments. Expert meetings, key informant interviews, and selected document analysis served as sources of information. The findings were summarized using qualitative grading and institutional mapping. Basic results of the study are that monitoring data on climate and streamflow are standardized in forms that can be communicated to policymakers. Scantier and less standardized are environmental data on soils, sediment transport, forests, biodiversity, and air quality. Water quality, soil moisture, groundwater level, forest biomass, and soil carbon are rarely monitored and can only be found in reports or studies for the fulfillment of academic degree requirements. Resources like nutrient fluxes have rarely been documented, not at all in some cases. There is considerable scope for tapping both technological advances and experiences of citizen science and local participation in environmental governance to rapidly expand and improve monitoring from local to regional and national scales. The study showed that there is a need for establishing a coordinated national system for monitoring and assessing the status of the environment, including the use of natural resources. Communicating such data to the scientific and wider public will support evidence-based planning and policy-making towards national development.
中文翻译:
在埃塞俄比亚不断变化的景观中监测和评估环境资源:关注森林和水
环境资源的监测和评估 (M&A) 旨在支持政策的制定并跟进政策的实施结果。本研究探讨了埃塞俄比亚的并购状况,重点是森林和水资源。该研究旨在为埃塞俄比亚未来的并购申请以及实现可持续发展目标和其他国家和国际承诺提供建议。专家会议、关键线人访谈和选定的文件分析作为信息来源。使用定性分级和制度映射总结了调查结果。研究的基本结果是,气候和河流流量的监测数据以可传达给决策者的形式标准化。土壤、沉积物运输、森林、生物多样性和空气质量。水质、土壤水分、地下水位、森林生物量和土壤碳很少被监测,只能在满足学位要求的报告或研究中找到。像养分通量这样的资源很少被记录在案,在某些情况下根本没有。利用公民科学的技术进步和经验以及地方参与环境治理来迅速扩大和改进从地方到区域和国家范围的监测,还有相当大的空间。研究表明,需要建立一个协调的国家系统来监测和评估环境状况,包括自然资源的使用。