North 🌿 Environmental Change & Legacy Contaminants

Our ecosystems are dynamic carriers of resilience, yet sensitive to long-term stressors and gradual transformations. The northern zone of the Geo-Resilience Compass is designed to focus on processes that are often overlooked or underestimated: legacy contamination, creeping environmental change and early stress indicators that may compromise long-term stability.

Earth Observation (EO) plays a central role in this context—not merely as a monitoring tool, but as a strategic lever for closing systemic gaps. Through targeted concepts and new linkages, EO is repositioned within this framework as part of a forward-looking resilience architecture: one that identifies risks early, enables cross-sectoral interoperability and expands operational room for manoeuvre.

In this domain, existing gaps are not to be criticized, but transformed — strategically reoccupied to strengthen environmental foresight and systemic coherence.

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This contribution was authored by Birgit Bortoluzzi, strategic architect and certified Graduate Disaster Manager. The content reflects original interdisciplinary synthesis developed within the framework of the Geo-Resilience Initiative.