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Sustainable water management under climate change is an urgent challenge for the Euro-Mediterranean region. Future climate change projections estimate an increase in water scarcity and droughts in the region, causing substantial socioeconomic losses and environmental impacts.In this context, efforts are needed to strengthen public participation and embed a sense of responsibility within the societ ...
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Background The natural environment and biodiversity on Skyros are some of the best preserved in the region. The landscape is characterised by steep slopes, wet meadows, and seasonal wetlands, scrublands and pasturelands of high quality. The island includes many endemic plants, passerines, birds of prey, migratory water-foul, bats, terrapins, and endemic s ...
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The overall objective of the project is to foster cross-border partnership for the development of harmonized policy and utilization of scientific studies relevant to monitoring and addressing environmental threats in the Black Sea Basin in the field of land-based sources of pollution. ...
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The OrientGate project will foster concerted and coordinated climate adaptation actions across the SEE region. The project will explore climate risks faced by coastal, rural and urban communities; contribute to a better understanding of the impact of climate variability and change on water regimes, forests and agro-ecosystems; and analyse specific adaptation needs in the hydroelectricity, agro-ali ...
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...ter ""the project"") will establish an effective collaboration network among key role players in Mediterranean and Black Sea fisheries research and management. The participants in the project include national research institutes from Mediterranean and Black Sea countries with a long history and active participation in fisheries research and assessment, who provide advice to national, regional and ...
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Energy Efficiency in Low-income Housing in the Mediterranean (ELIH-Med)

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

...eps for the projectFollowing the selection of companies realising the refurbishment, partners will launch workings in their pilot projects, most of them between January and March 2013. After the international conference in Malaga in October, partners will meet again in Malta in January 2013. Regarding capitalisation activities, after a first presentation of the policy paper made with MARIE in Brus ...
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...oping territorial management plans for the startoff of M2RES;implementing demonstrative M2RES pilot projects proposals; establishing a Road Map for the permanent transfer and implementation of M2RES. National agencies will spread knowledge concerning M2RES through a wide sensitization programme (location & extension of marginal areas; connected problems; preservation of environment; returns (econo ...
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...to protect the historical buildings in order to preserve the individual characteristics and therewith the attractiveness and competitiveness of the cities around the Baltic Sea. Besides this the international and the EU CO2-reduction targets have to be fulfilled. After the first wave of technical improvements like modern heating systems, especially thermal insulations of the outer walls produced i ...
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Monitoring and Evaluation of Spatially Managed Areas (MESMA) (MESMA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

...count. MESMA will supply innovative methods and integrated strategies for governments, local authorities, stakeholders and other managerial bodies for planning and decision making at different local, national and European scales. This will also comprise an easy accessible information system to gain support from politicians, stakeholders and the public in general for difficult (inter)national decis ...
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Baltic COMPASS project has grown out of a large number of international projects in the field of landuse, agriculture, water and environment related to the protection of the Baltic Sea. Specifically, Baltic COMPASS is a response to the need for a transnational approach to reduce eutrophication of the Baltic Sea and contribute in adaption and implementation of the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSA ...
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The Danube River is one of the most important natural axes in South-East-Europe. It links most of the countries in the SEE area. Thus the improvement and good examples of transnational cooperation of all countries at this river will be a brilliant signal for the whole region. This project has a far reaching strategic focus beyond risk management and could become a flagship project for the SEE prog ...
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...action of needs in water is met together with preservation of environmental systems. At the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) held in Johannes-burg during August-September 2002, the international community recognized that to achieve our goal of sustainable development we have to revisit, reorient and enhance our efforts at the international, regional and national level to promote peac ...
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Regional Cooperation in Waste Management (RECO)

Start date: Jan 12, 2005, End date: Jan 11, 2008,

...the development of efficient Institutions for management of municipal waste in the BSR in order to minimize negative environmental effects, lower life cycle costs for waste management and meet EU and national legislation and targets etc. This is to be achieved by:Institution building thru the development of Regional Waste Management Institutions (RWMIs)Supporting of cross-border and cross-sectoral ...
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Background The world's water resources are under increasing pressure as a result of a growth in demand. The EU defines water, not as a commercial product, but as a heritage that must be protected, and water is a critical development factor in many countries. For example, the overuse of water supplies can result in desertification in some areas. A recogn ...
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The need to enhance collaborative planning of natural resources has been recognised in many international conventions and reflected in the evolving legislation of the EU and the Member States. E.g. a new type of strategic planning approach has been launched. This “program-based planning of natural resources” (PBPNR) approach requires taking into consideration local level actors and stake-holders. ...
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