Genève, le 13 novembre 2013 – Selon l’Organisation météorologique mondiale (OMM), l’année 2013 est en passe de devenir l’une des dix années les plus chaudes depuis le début des relevés modernes, en 1850. Les neuf premiers mois de l’année, janvier à septembre, caractérisés par une température moyenne à la surface des terres et des océans supérieure d’environ […]
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The International Association for Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) Prediction in Ungauged Basins (PUB) initiative had the goal of decreasing the uncertainty in hydrological prediction. The 4th biennium of the PUB decade culminated in a 2011 workshop to summarize progress on sharing and consolidating efforts to maximize the use of new knowledge and techniques for prediction in ungauged basins in practice. The […]
The Working Group I contribution to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) considers new evidence of climate change based on many independent scientific analyses from observations of the climate system, paleoclimate archives, theoretical studies of climate processes and simulations using climate models. It builds upon the Working Group I contribution to the IPCC’s Fourth […]
This paper is the result of a broad technical consultation process among UN‐Water Members and Partners, as well as a range of other stakeholders. It proposes a set of potential targets and indicators to support a dedicated global goal for water and is conceived as a contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) consultation process as well as […]
This thesis explores the available water resources and related data that there is in Albania, and also in the European and Global level. The thesis provides some recommendations as to a way of establishing a water resources geodatabase for Albania focusing on some relevant guidelines from the European Commission and the World Meteorological Organization. In the second part of […]
Water resources information in Albania is very scarce. The country does not have a consolidated monitoring network to collect hydrological and other related data and the quantity and quality of the carried out measurements carried out is limited. The water institutions are very fragmented and the monitored and collected data are being stored in different databases, and non-standardized […]
In Eastern and Southern Europe, where the economies are characterized by intensive agriculture, one of the main environmental issues is the high consumption of water resources for irrigation, the low efficiency of water distribution networks and the pollution of groundwater caused by the massive use of fertilizers of organic origin…/…
Le Vardar est un des fleuves les plus importants de la partie méridionale de la Péninsule Balkanique. A travers sa vallée passent les principales voies de communication reliant l’Europe Centrale et Occidentale au Proche et au Moyen Orient…/…
This report forms part of an awareness-raising campaign by the United Nations Environment Programme and the Environment and Security initiative on the effects of climate change. Representatives of governments, international organizations, civil society organizations and research institutions and other experts from the region have compiled this booklet with the objective of revealing and explaining the linkages between people and the environment in the Balkans…/…
According to the statistics, the countries of the Western Balkan region are among the richest with clean water in Europe. However the water resource management and trans-boundary management is not on the highest level of management and control. Due to this in the region have been encouraged different acts of corruption and undermining the public […]