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Background Ireland’s waste management performance suffers as a result of insufficient planning of future treatment capacity, an absence of waste prevention on the political agenda, insufficient use of economic and legal instruments, and inadequate municipal waste recycling. The generation of municipal waste peaked in Ireland in 2007 at 3 397 683 tonnes ...

The project concerns four regions which have been severely hit by flooding over the past years: the Neckar catchment area (one of the tributaries of the Rhine), the Dublin region, the River Enrick and through Glen Urquhart in Scotland, and Swiss areas. The main objective of the project is to go beyond a purely technical and defensive approach (i.e. further extension of protection works) to focus o ...