Integration of Environmental Information in Federal States’ Environmental Portals

Abstract

With the citizens being entitled to be provided with environmental information, the quantity of the latter increased as did the efforts needed to find the desired information on the many distributed websites and other data and information sources. The Environmental State Portals of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia presented here shall serve as a central access platform that facilitates search by offering a thematically structured approach and various search options to the user. They all are instances of a pragmatic approach to the construction of environmental portals for the public.