Abstract
Governmental authorities are forced by law to make decisions within the framework of European, national and regional directives in the fields of spatial planning, groundwater and environmental protection. These tasks can be supported by a decision-support system, which integrates data from various sources and helps to make decision processes more effective and transparent. Basic work for such a decision support system has been done in a transnational and interdisciplinary project (Interreg II C: KATER), including metadata definition, metadata system, cartographic tools and GIS tools. The direct integration of these tools and information in the decision process will be implemented in the next few years (project KATER II).
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The work described in this paper was funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDP).
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Kollarits, S., Kuschnig, G., Veselic, M. et al. Decision-support systems for groundwater protection: innovative tools for resource management. Environ Geol 49, 840–848 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00254-006-0179-3
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