This event provides an opportunity to share and learn about the successes and challenges of river restoration and be a part of the revival of rivers in Europe.
The Conference will provide :
Exciting examples of practical…
The First Workshop convened in the International Year of Water Cooperation aims to highlight opportunities and inspire effective practices/solutions in advancing the legal and institutional frameworks and tools for transboundary water…
The workshop will offer a platform for exchanging experience on adaptation strategies, best practices, success factors and lessons learned, with a particular focus on transboundary climate change adaptation serving multiple purposes. It will build…
This meeting will be the key step in the preparation process of an assessment of the water-food-energy-ecosystems nexus in selected transboundary basins under the Water Convention, following up to a decision of the Meeting of the Parties in November…
Drought is widely recognized as a slow creeping natural hazard that occurs as a consequence of the natural climatic variability. In recent years, concern has grown world-wide that droughts may be increasing in frequency and severity given the…
The third meeting of the core group of the pilot projects on adaptation to climate change in transboundary basins under the UNECE Water Convention and the first meeting of the global network of pilot projects took place in the Palais des…
This side event will be an opportunity to discuss lessons learnt by the international river, lake and aquifer commissions in developing cooperation of riparian countries on the management of transboundary surface and ground waters.
In particular…
The 2012 scientific programme of the 5th Ouranos symposium is an opportunity to review the progress made in recent research efforts within Ouranos and its network. The symposium will feature a number of top-ranked speakers, and will also provide a…
10th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE« EUROPE INBO 2012 »
ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE
European Group of Basin Organizations EUROPE-INBO
Istanbul – Turkey – 17 to 19 October 2012
at the Istanbul…
The objective of the Conference is to secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development, assess the progress to date and the remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development, and…
In July 2010, the United Nations recognized the right to universal access to water. Currently, nearly 900 million people worldwide lack access to improved water sources, over 300 million of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa.
As it did…
The UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP) together with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) has initiated a new Project on "Groundwater Governance" financed by the…
Brief summary of the Symposium
The objective of the 6th International Symposium of the European Water Resources Association, co-organized with the Department of Civil and Enviromental Engineering of Catania University and with the Italian…