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Preparatory inventory and activities for the designation of marine IBA and SPA site for Phalacrocorax aristotelis desmarestii in Slovenia (SIMARINE-NATURA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2016,

Background The Slovenian sea is home to a significant portion (11.4 % or around 2 000 individuals in non-breeding period) of the biogeographical population of Mediterranean shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis desmarestii). Other seabirds, such as the Mediterranean shearwater (Puffinus yelkouan) and Mediterranean gull (Larus melanocephalus) can also be found h ...
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Capitalising Climate Change Knowledge for Adaptation in the Alpine Space (C3-Alps)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

C3-Alps will synthesize, transfer and implement in policy and practice results of previous Alpine Space projects on climate change adaptation. The capitalisation approach aims at a) generating new and directly usable forms of state-of-the-art synthesis adaptation knowledge in the Alps, harmonised across sectors and useful to adaptation decision-makers, b) its effective and tailor-made communicatio ...
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Sustainable Integrated Management of International River Corridors in SEE Countries  (SEE RIVER)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

Rivers in SEE region are often threatened by unsustainable use, increasing human pressure, and problems of increased floods and droughts driven by climate change. Inhabitation of floodplain areas, hydropower utilization, navigation, gravel and sand extraction, unsustainable tourism etc. lead to changes in morphology, increased pollution, degradation of aquatic habitats, as well as land use conflic ...
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Establishment of a transnational ESPON training programme to stimulate interest to ESPON2013 knowledge (ESPONTrain)

Start date: Sep 30, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

The ESPONTrain Project is aiming at making ESPON2013 knowledge operational in a coordinated and transnational way for practical use at regional and local level, and translating ESPON Europe-wide information and findings to the regional/local level. Specifically, the project is aiming at: •Stimulating a transnational educational and training ESPON activity facilitated by both an e-learning procedur ...
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Climate Change and Impacts on Water Supply (CC-WaterS)

Start date: Apr 30, 2009, End date: Apr 29, 2012,

Climate change (CC) affects fresh water resources and may have significant influence on public drinking water supply. Land use activities exert pressure on water resources and will change according to CC. It is crucial for safeguarding future water supply to anticipate these climate and land use changes and to assess their impacts on water resources. Transnational action is needed to prepare SEE f ...
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ESPON in Integrated Territorial Strategies (INTERSTRAT)

Start date: Jan 31, 2010, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

The aim of this project is to encourage and facilitate the use of ESPON findings in the creation and monitoring of integrated territorial development strategies and to support transnational learning about the actual and potential contribution of ESPON to integrated policy-making. Its focus is active learning, using ESPON analysis and related data in the development of integrated territorial develo ...
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Climate Change Adaptation by Spatial Planning in the Alpine Space (CLISP)

Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Aug 30, 2011,

Climate change impacts, esp. growing risks from natural hazards, increasingly threaten settlements, infrastructure, lives and future development in the Alpine Space. CLISP aims at preventing increasing climate change-related spatial conflicts, vulnerability, damages and costs by providing "climate proof" spatial planning solutions as a substantial basis for future sustainable territorial developme ...
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MANAGING NATURAL ASSETS AND PROTECTED AREAS AS SUSTAINABLE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES (NATREG)

Start date: Mar 31, 2009, End date: Jul 30, 2011,

The aim of NATREG project is to acknowledge, realise and promote the potentials of natural assets and protected areas (PA) (e.g. Natura 2000, IBA, parks, nature reserves etc.) as drives rather than obstacles for sustainable regional development. This aim will be achieved through the establishment of trans-national and multi-sectorial cooperation network which will develop the "Joint Strategy for I ...
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Restoring and conserving habitats and birds in Skocjanski Zatok N.R. (DOPPS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2001, End date: Jun 30, 2007,

Background Situated between the harbour and the centre of the city of Koper, the third largest city in Slovenia, the Skocjanski zatok nature reserve is the only large brackish wetland in the country. Thirty years ago the brackish lagoon, with its shallow water areas and mudflats, its reed beds and meadows, provided food and shelter for 41% of all amphibia ...
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Establishing long-term protection of Crex crex in Slovenia (Crex Slovenia)

Start date: Jan 1, 2004, End date: Mar 31, 2007,

...d wet grassland birds in priority Natura 2000 sites. This scheme falls within the Rural development Programme for the Republic of Slovenia 2007- 2013 and was introduced in cooperation with the Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry and Food. The new scheme offers new incentives to farmers for Corncrake habitat management in key Natura 2000 sites. To increase the potential habitat for Crex crex, plots ...
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Spatial Information Systems for Transnational Environmental Management of Pro-tected Areas and Regions in CADSES (SISTEMaPARC)

Start date: Dec 31, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2006,

Protected cross-border regions in the CADSES area face similar problems. Often frontiers divide one region of cultural and natural heritage into more than one national park, biosphere reserve, nature reserve or protected landscape area and they are situated in two or more countries. As a consequence, two or more administrations, management structures and - if existing - spatial information systems ...
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Disaster Information System of ALPine regions (DIS-ALP)

Start date: Jun 30, 2003, End date: Jun 29, 2006,

The management of natural risks in a mountainous environment and the prevention of disasters requires a broad and accessible information basis about former disasters, which is important for interdisciplinary and interregional research and for decisions to prevent disasters and deal with natural risks. But the information needs - defined by the practitioners of spatial planning, risk prevention and ...
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IPAM-Toolbox: Integrative Protected Area Management in the Alps-Adriatic-Region (IPAM)

Start date: Mar 31, 2003, End date: Mar 30, 2006,

The protection of areas and sites is one of the most important instruments of modern, anticipating strategies in nature conservation and planning for sustainable spatial development. Therefore, an enormous increase of number and acreage as well as the number of categories of sites has been registered. The management of these sites has become a challenge for conservation and other sectors, mainly r ...
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River Basin Agenda Alpine Space (River Basin Agenda)

Start date: Apr 30, 2003, End date: Feb 27, 2006,

The risk potential in river basins has risen sharply throughout Europe due to the enormous pressures of utilization in the narrow valleys. In order to improve safety for the valley populations, increased, sustained inter-regional and transnational commitment is required. The Alpine River Basin Agenda thereby makes innovative contributions in 10 selected river basins: - from working focussed on the ...
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