The UNESCO Chair/International Network of Water-Environment Centres for the Balkans (INWEB) on "sustainable management of water and conflict resolution" was established in July 2003 at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Department of…
Many towns and villages in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia are under the water, while in areas so far spared there is a bitter struggle against further flooding. Large population have been evacuated and all available resources in the…
1. Context and objectives The "EUROPE-INBO" group, created in Valencia, Spain, in 2003 by the European Basin Organisations of INBO for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD), aims at enriching the implementation of water…
In the report "Water Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean: a Multi-level Approach", OECD calls for more integrated water policies through the adoption of context-specific, flexible and multi-level governance mechanisms including at…
"Mr. Teodoro Estrela Monreal, Head of the Hydrological Planning Office of the Júcar River Basin Authority (CHJ) in Valenica (Spain), was appointed new Permanent Technical Secretary of MENBO by Ms. María Ángeles Ureña, President of the CHJ. CHJ…
The China Europe Water Platform was launched in March 2012 at the 6th World Water Forum as a new working group of the EU Water Initiative, with Denmark and Portugal co-leading the work. The specific purpose of the CEWP Work Programme 2012-2015…
OECD Regional Development Working Papers 2012/04 This report attempts to shed some light on the governance of water policy in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. It argues that public governance of water in most LAC countries is…
The present paper builds on the proceedings of a NARBO seminar in Malang, East Java, in June 2011, where a discussion was held about 'secrets' of successful RBOs. The 'secrets' include, in random order, • political support; • good stakeholder…