Michal Hejč's research while affiliated with CZECH-IN and other places

The paper introduces the research project No SPII2/F1/30/07, which is solved by SITA CZ and ECO-Management with the collaboration of the Masaryk University. The main goal of the project is the devel-opment of information, manager and economic tools supporting an integrated waste management system of the Czech Republic in compliance with the EU waste legislation, the Thematic Strategy on the preven-tion and recycling of waste and further connected EU standards. The paper focuses on analysis of informa-tion tools support of this project.

There is presented a model for the evaluation of cost and price relationships in the municipal waste management in the Czech Republic (CZ), created by the authors solved the project for the Ministry of Environment. The model was developed based on appropriate input macroeconomic variables and it enables to simulate the development of variant waste landfill fees and the inclusion or exclusion of certain equipment in preparation for energy recovery (ER) or mechanical-biological treatment (MBT) of waste in selected locations and the prescribed annual capacity. Based on data from annual reports municipalities (if available) on the production of municipal waste and estimate its quantity by using a sophisticated model, including demographic and socio-economic impacts. The model is based on an analysis of factors determining the costs for landfills, ER and MBT facilities and calculates the price for waste management for each municipality in CR, including its foreseeable development by 2020. The article gives a detailed description of the model and its outputs in relation to changes in modeling fees in accordance with the implementation of the European Waste Framework Directive into Czech legislation.

There is the short overview of the terms data quality and environmental information, following up the model definition in the paper. It introduces one such prototype of model - easy to implement, covering all modelling niches in environmental informatics and promising easy model knowledge sharing - it will be suitable to make a basis for appropriate model library. There is also discussed the use of the model and its role in the process of measurement of data quality. The concept is illustrated by the case study of the South Moravian region waste management data evaluation (realized by authors) and compared with the approach of the Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic. Short conclusion suggests the future exploitation of possible new ways of dealing with the primary data uncertainty.

Imprecision of data and their inequality are important characteristic features of Environmental Systems monitoring and investigation. When making evaluations, conclusions and the decisions from collected environmental data, processed information and developed indicators one has to be very careful not to make fatal decision mistake. The important task of computing indicators is to deal with the inequality data and using appropriate Data Quality models and methodologies to reduce the risk of mistake. The paper presents general Data Quality model for computer systems processing environmental data, information and indicators to support organizations that acquire, manipulate and use data with the necessary quality characteristics to achieve their objectives. These characteristics are described for any computer system application (e-Environment, e-Government) and each characteristic may vary in importance depending on specific requirements of the applications of the computer system. It is taken into account all environmental data types, assigned data values and relationships between data in the paper. The case study of the assessment of quality of regional waste management data, information and indicators is presented.

Imprecision of input data is an important characteristic feature of environmental monitoring. When making evaluations, conclusions and the decisions from collected data, one has to be very careful not to make fatal mistake. The important task of computing and current information and communication technology is to deal with the primary data uncertainty and thus to reduce the risk of mistake. At present new approaches and methodologies to handle environmental data uncertainty are explored as opposite to standard. The paper presents comparison of such new approach against European Environment Agency and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards in the several cases of the assessment environmental management indicators in the Czech Republic. The new approach brings more modular way of dealing with uncertainty and is supposed to bring better results and less workload then standard approach. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

SITA CZ a.s. 1 PROJEKT VAV "INTEGROVANÉ SYSTÉMY NAKLÁDÁNÍ S ODPADY" V závěru roku 2007 byly zahájeny práce na projektu VaV "Výzkum integrovaného systému nakládání s odpady a nových podpůrných nástrojů pro jeho zavedení", číslo projektu SPII2F1-30-07. Na řešení projektu se podílí společnosti SITA CZ a.s. jako řešitel a ECO – Management, s.r.o. jako spoluřešitel. Cílem projektu je návrh optimálního systému nakládání se základními odpadovými proudy z produkce obcí včetně drobných živností. Biologicky rozložitelné odpady jsou i vzhledem k cílům stanoveným předpisy EU a ČR jednou z nejvýznamnějších oblastí zaměření projektu. V této oblasti byly v úvodní části řešení projektu zpracovány rešerše domácích zdrojů a zdrojů vybraných evropských zemí.