Information Management and Public Participation in Transboundary Water Cooperation Worshop
8th - 10th June 2005 - St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
The Workshop on information management and public participation in transboundary water cooperation was held in St. Petersburg on 8–10 June 2005. The workshop was prepared through UNECE Water Convention in cooperation with the Center for Transboundary Cooperation – St.Petersburg and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) International Waters Learning Exchange and Resource Network (IW:LEARN). IW:LEARN, the World Bank Institute and the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency funded the workshop.
Workshop Evaluation
CWC project objective and outcome of the first workshop on the legal basis for transboundary water cooperation
Experience of the Finnish-Russian cooperation over more than 40 years
Lake Peipsi/River Narva basin – working together on the new Eastern border of the EU
Trends in information exchange in the Finnish-Russian cooperation
Information and transboundary cooperation – challenges and responses
Information obligations arising from the Aarhus Convention and its protocol
Tailor- made information in transboundary water management
Information as a basis to establish transboundary cooperation: the experience of the Bug pilot project
Hydrological information exchange in Central Asia
Interstate Dnipro Basin Environmental Data Base
Using web technology: the Information Portal for Water and Environmental Issues in Central Asia
Automatic information and measuring system in the Tisza river
Public participation in transboundary water management: trends in the EECCA
The Aarhus Convention as a legal basis for public participation activities
“Ecodom”, “Partnership with NGOs”
Public participation experience in Central Asia: experience from the Chu Talas basin
Baltic States: Participatory approaches towards environmental management
Innovative methods for public involvement in water management decision making: Focus groups, citizen's juries and open space method
Public participation in the Danube Basin: approaches, activities, challenges
Stakeholder analysis and public participation strategy: the lessons learned from the Caspian Environment Programme