Despite being located at a threefold border junction, Prespa forms a unitary region with rich shared natural and cultural heritage. It is an area of global importance for its biological diversity, best known for the impressive populations of rare water birds; the world largest breeding colony of the Dalmatian pelican being the most noteworthy (Crivelli […]
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Sub-watershed analysis has become a strategic approach in assessment of the natural resources. The guiding principle of this approach is to maximize the benefits of water resources and ecosystems management. This article will present the authors experience in evaluating couple of projects within the UNDP developing program in Prespa region that deals with hydrological analysis […]
Les pressions exercées sur les ressources en eau mettent en lumière l’interdépendance hydrologique, sociale, économique et écologique dans les bassins de fleuves, de lacs et des aquifères. Elle rend nécessaire une plus grande intégration en terme de développement et de gestion des ressources en eau et des sols. Il existe une relation dynamique entre les […]
This Handbook addresses a large number of stakeholders involved in integrated management of transboundary water resources, from national governments to regional organizations, managers and users in the field. They all are invited to work together to face the many current and future challenges. The Handbook offers guidance for the integrated management of transboundary water resources […]
Global Water Partnership, (GWP), established in 1996, is an international network open to all organisations involved in water resources management: developed and developing country government institutions, agencies of the United Nations, bi- and multilateral development banks, professional associations, research institutions, non-governmental organisations, and the private sector. GWP was created to foster Integrated Water Resources Management […]
The world is undergoing a historic transformation with the explosion of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) which have drastically changed methods of international cooperation through the development of intra and inter-electronic networks. The use of new web-basedtechnologies for regional networking and distance cooperation presents an opportunity to face challenges in a new way…/…
EMWIS is an initiative of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. It provides a strategic tool for exchanging information and knowledge in the water sector between and within the Euro Mediterranean partnership countries All the countries involved in the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) are concerned: The 27 EU member states of the EU The 16 Mediterranean Partner […]
This chapter deals with major transboundary rivers discharging into the Mediterranean Sea and some of their transboundary tributaries. It also includes lakes located within the basin of the Mediterranean Sea…/…
The Drin-Buna river basin is located in the South Western Balkans. The river basin is shared between Albania, Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosovo. Sub-basins are formed by the Black Drin, the White Drin, the Buna (Bojana), as well as the lakes Prespa, Ohrid, and Shkodër. In addition to these natural lakes, the Drin water basin includes several reservoir […]
At first sight, the connection between the weather and climate and the terrestrial water cycle appears fundamental, and it is thus obvious that a high level of synergy should exist between the disciplines involved. However, perhaps surprisingly, the opening statement of the report on the Expert Meeting on Water Management Need for Climate Information in Water Resources Planning (Ref. […]