Towards a common core set of indicators of the National System for Environmental Protection

In the “Three-year plan 2014-2016”, the National System for Environmental Protection (SNPA) established a Working Group, coordinated by ISPRA, aimed at the realization of a methodological comparison of all the indicators used by System (ISPRA–ARPA–APPA), to create a core set of indicators to describe the state of environment, characterized from a methodological convergence within the SNPA.

The report describes the methodological activities of the Working Group finalized to:

• the definition of a final common core set indicators containing 109 indicators, of which 60 indicators to be populated "immediately" and other 49 indicators developable from all in the near future after appropriate methodological or structural insights within the SNPA and beyond;
• the definition of a common factsheet indicators (Metadata), sufficiently concise and immediate, but containing all the information more important and significant;
• the identification of the minimum contents that a newly-formed common IT Platform (Showcase-web) should have, to communicate to the wider public with a "unique voice" the environmental indicators of the SNPA, which help to photograph the state of environment in an ever more sharper and wider both at regional and at national level.

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