Transboundary Water Resources in the Balkans: Initiating a Sustainable Co-operative Network: 74 (NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 2, 74) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0792365577 ISBN 13: 9780792365570

Publisher: Springer, 2000

Synopsis

A source of up-to-date information on current water resources, their quality and quantity, in every country in the Balkans. Institutional structures, water management issues and water monitoring problems are analyzed, with special reference to international waters, using characteristic case studies, including the Sava River, Lake Ohrid, The Nestos/Mesta River, the Neretva River estuary, and coastal waters in Turkey. Contributions written by experts from France, the UK and the USA demonstrate state-of-the-art electronic networking and the management of distributed water databases.
The protection of water resources in the Balkans has become a high profile issue since the collapse of communism in the area, the break up of former Yugoslavia, and ethnic tensions in Kosovo. Transboundary river pollution and the development of international water basins call demand urgent regional co-operation, which will be facilitated by the International Network of Water-Environment Centres for the Balkans, the initiation of which is described in the final conclusions of the book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792365577
• ISBN 13: 9780792365570
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 265
• Editor: Ganoulis Jacques, Murphy I.L., Brilly Mitja