Protecting Danube River Basin Resources
Subtitle: Ensuring Access to Water Quality Data and Information
By: edited by Irene Lyons Murphy
Series: NATO ASI Series, Series 2: Environment -- 24; NATO ASI Series, Series 2: Environment -- 24
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9789048147854; 9789401728058
Subjects: Environmental management; Geography; Social sciences; Data structures (Computer science); Hydraulic engineering
Other titles: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on an International Data-Sharing Programme for the Effective Management of Danube River Basin Resources, Budapest, Hungary 27-30 May 1996
Description: Eastern and Western, NATO partner and member country specialists discuss recent accomplishments in the sharing of timely, accurate data and information to protect the water resources of the Danube Basin, a strategic region shared by two Western and 11 former Communist countries. An International Commission, continuing the work of an ad hoc environmental management programme, is expected to take over in 1997 and may well adopt the recommendations of this timely workshop. These recommendations include the establishment of a central source of water quality data and information on levels of pollution, government standards and their enforcement, NGO environmental groups, and other programmes and policies. The editor, Dr. Irene Lyons Murphy, received support from the United States Institute of Peace during 1995- a study of the cooperative management of Danube River resources which began with the end of the Cold War. It analyzes the development and ratification of the Danube River Protection Convention and other aspects of joint pro-environment activities from 1991 to 1996. Its title The Danube: A River Basin in Transition is to be published in early 1997. Users, investors in new and/or joint business ventures, national and international governments, research scientists, the media, NGOs and the general public will be served on the Internet and through the distribution of CD-ROM and diskettes.
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