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The purpose of the presented paper is to foster a conscience about the need for an added policy dimension within the environmental datacollecting and modeling community. To this end, the need for defining the ultimate goal of data management is stressed, and the policy process by which “raw” data are transformed into knowledge is described.
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Mayda, J. (1997). Policy and Decision Making as a Focus for Integrated Data Management. In: Harmancioglu, N.B., Alpaslan, M.N., Ozkul, S.D., Singh, V.P. (eds) Integrated Approach to Environmental Data Management Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5616-5_7
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