1. Implementing the GEOSTAT Vision – a 10 points program towards a European statistical- spatial framework – in memoriam Lars H. Backer Ekkehard Petri Eurostat

2. The GEOSTAT Vision

3. We as civil servants, members of the academia, or citizens of democratic nations are united here for one overriding purpose: To produce systems of qualified information to serve as foundation for direct and indirect government action on all levels of public authority from local to global. This is the sustainable development challenge! Thesis

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5. Spaceship Earth 11 November 2015EFGS conference 2015 Vienna5

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7. Government user needs 11 November 2015EFGS conference 2015 Vienna7 Inactive Reactive PreactiveInteractive Russell Ackoff’s Strategies of management: Ex-post Strategies (Conservative “Business as usual” attitude) Statistics for accounting and benchmarking Ex-ante Strategies For critical problems the demands response (Progressive “Lets face it” attitude”) Statistics for spatial and temporal analysis

8. Government user needs 11 November 2015EFGS conference 2015 Vienna8 To control man environmental systems –Exploit opportunities –Counter threats Through direct actions (concrete projects) –Examples Build (or supervise) large-scale physical infrastructures Protect natural resources for sustainable use Through in-direct actions (legislation)

9. Implementing the Vision – GGIS

10. Systems Theory (The world as a system of systems in space and time) 11 November 2015EFGS conference 2015 Vienna10 The world is complex beyond human understanding. Systems theory is a strategy to reduce this complexity down to a scale and complexity that can be described understood by human beings. Task: To describe the world as a system of systems using qualified temporal-spatial information.

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12. Model

13. To become useful this information has to be re- structured and reduced to the mere necessities! Knowledge an integrated system (based on (scientific) expost perspective), but not very practical (useful for the development of man environmental systems)!

14. Double perspective : (1) ” Interacting wholes” and (2) ”Kit of Parts” The Object approach 11 November 2015EFGS conference 2015 Vienna14

15. Time Space/Scale Statistics 11 November 2015 EFGS conference 2015 Vienna 15

16. The Man-Environmental System described according to the ecological method Focus : BE: Man-made environment –Layer ((maps &statistics) theme 1) –Layer ((maps &statistics) theme 2 –Layer ((maps &statistics) theme...n) Context : NE: Natural environment –Layer ((maps &statistics) theme 1) –Layer ((maps &statistics) theme 2 –Layer ((maps &statistics) theme...n) ES: Economic system –Layer ((maps &statistics) theme 1) –Layer ((maps &statistics) theme 2) –Layer ((maps &statistics) theme...n) SS: Sociocultural system –Layer ((maps &statistics) theme 1) –Layer ((maps &statistics) theme 2) –Layer ((maps &statistics) theme...n) 11 November 2015EFGS conference 2015 Vienna16

17. Reduce complexity – scale Six levels of public authority from local to global: 1.10000 km window/100km grids (Global scale) 2.1000 km window/10km grids (International (macro) regions) 3.100 km window/1km grids (National regions) 4.10 km window/100m grids (Communes and urban districts) 5.1 km window/10m grids (Urban neighbourhoods) 6.100 m window/1m grids (Urban blocks and localities) 11 November 2015EFGS conference 2015 Vienna17

18. Reduce complexity – scope 11 November 2015EFGS conference 2015 Vienna18

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20. In summary – the GEOSTAT Vision The goal: sustainable development Real user needs from government Spaceship Earth as a man-environmental system of systems to be described with appropriate scale and scope information An information system made of objects and structured according to the ecological method A point based foundation for statistics Concrete projects – GEOSTAT A network of Excellence – the EFGS 11 November 2015EFGS conference 2015 Vienna20

21. The GEOSTAT GGIISS and the Post-2015 Agenda

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24. Different monitoring levels based on a core set of global indicators harmonised to common global standards predominantly taken from official data applicable to all countries 24 11 November 2015EFGS conference 2015 Vienna

25. The 3 tiers of SDG indicators ? Targets can be measured now Targets feasible to measure but requiring investments Targets not feasible to measure in the medium term Official Statistics enhanced Data revolution 25 11 November 2015EFGS conference 2015 Vienna

26. The spatial dimension in the SDGs 26 11 November 2015EFGS conference 2015 Vienna

27. From white to green to 10 points A European statistical-geospatial framework

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32. Source illustration: Hermanni Backer