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Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency

LMO Description
Organisation: 
Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency
Proposed role in INSPIRE development
  • submit reference material as input to the Drafting Teams
    • yes
  • submit reference material as input to the Drafting Teams
    • yes
  • contribute to awareness raising and training
    • yes
  • be kept informed
    • yes
    Details
    Level of authority: 
    National
    Formal Mandate: 
    <p>The objective of the Swedish Civil Contingency Agency (MSB) is<br /> to strengthen society’s ability to prevent and handle accidents<br /> and severe peacetime emergencies. Society can learn from<br /> past experience by evaluation and follow-up in a continuous<br /> process where experience is being used to organise and<br /> develop tasks for the actors in the civil emergency planning<br /> system. Evaluation and learning from accidents and disasters,<br /> supervision and monitoring, need for new research and<br /> support for civil emergency planning activities are important<br /> tasks in order to strengthen societal security and to support<br /> prevention, preparedness, response and recovery throughout<br /> the disaster management cycle. For instance, Sweden has several systems for informing and alerting the<br /> public. </p>
    Main Activities: 
    Working groups, technical specifications development projects, GIS support, co-ordination and distribution of geographical information.
    URL: 
    http://www.msb.se/
    Area of work/experience
    Geographic Domain:: 
    National
    Nationwide
    Societal Sector: 
    Central government
    Specific Expertise: 
    Metadata
    Network Services
    Monitoring and Reporting
    Data Specifications
    Data and Service Sharing
    Previous Experience relevant for INSPIRE development: 
    E.g. MSB is responsible for mapping of stability and floods. Development of a user-friendly geographic information centre for internal use (database with geo data/information), accessible via the intranet. The development of the geo centre started with purpose to increase the knowledge and interest of geo data as well as to co-ordinate the use of geodata at our agency.
    Primary Business: 
    Public safety
    Environmental application domains: 
    E.g. man-made hazard management, floods & extreme weather prevention, management landslide prevention, forest fire prevention and management
    INSPIRE Data Themes
    Coordinator
    Human health and safety, Utility and governmental services, Production and industrial facilities, Natural risk zones, Atmospheric conditions
    Producer
    Human health and safety, Utility and governmental services, Production and industrial facilities, Natural risk zones, Atmospheric conditions
    Theme User
    Geographical names, Administrative units, Addresses, Cadastral parcels, Transport networks, Hydrography, Protected sites, Elevation, Land cover, Orthoimagery, Geology, Statistical units, Buildings, Soil, Land use, Human health and safety, Utility and governmental services, Environmental monitoring Facilities, Production and industrial facilities, Agricultural and aquaculture facilities, Population distribution and demography, Area management / restriction / regulation zones & reporting units, Natural risk zones, Atmospheric conditions, Meteorological geographical features, Oceanographic geographical features, Sea regions, Bio-geographical regions, Habitats and biotopes, Coordinate reference systems, Geographical grid systems