Danube Watch 1/2013
Owner/Publisher: ICPDR – International Commission for the
Protection of the Danube River, Vienna, icpdr@unvienna.org;
Executive Editor: Benedikt Mandl; Editor: Kirstie Shepherd;
Design: Agentur 7, Sylvia Kostenzer; Cover photo: Ralf
Reinartz; Print: Druckerei Janetschek, Vienna
Danube Watch is the official magazine of ICPDR, the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River. Danube Watch enhances regional cooperation and information sharing on sustainable water management and environmental protection in the Danube River Basin. It reports on current issues affecting the Danube Basin, and on action taken to deal with challenges in the river basin. Striving for scientific accuracy while remaining concise, clear and readable, it is produced for the wide range of people who are actively involved in the Danube River Basin and are working for the improvement of its environment.
The ICPDR accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to information or opinions of the authors of the articles in this issue.
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- Dear Readers, Sturgeons are ancient fish of the northern hemisphere, which have thrived for more than 200 million years on this planet. They have survived several climate changes more
- Platina Manual: Sustainable waterway planning in Croatian A Croatian version of the Platina Manual has been published, aiming to provide practical guidance to sustainable waterway
- A century ago, six species of sturgeon were native to the Danube River Basin. Today, five of them are critically endangered and one is already extinct, and action plans to conserve their
- Efforts to curb overfishing are under way across the Danube River Basin to restore dwindling sturgeon populations – which will ensure sustainable sturgeon fishing for future generations
- As most sturgeons are confined to the Lower Danube by dams and other structures, their populations are mere remnants of what they once were. One of the most urgent tasks now is to link the
- The ICPDR’s Accident Emergency Warning System has been improved and upgraded to provide better information to countries about dangerous pollution in the event of an emergency. In
- Last December, the ICPDR adopted its climate change adaptation strategy for how Danube countries will respond to future trends in temperature, precipitation and other climate-related
- The groundbreaking international framework agreement on transboundary freshwater became a global water instrument just in time for the UN International Year of Water Cooperation. The
- In its continuing series, Danube Watch presents portraits of the leaders whose passion and commitment help determine the future of our river basin. In this issue, we speak to the ICPDR
- One of the most important environmental projects in Romania is providing wastewater treatment for the tenth largest city in Europe, thus solving one of the major pollution sources in the Danube
- In December 2010, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2013 as the United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation. The objective of this International Year is to raise awareness,
- For final dates, please consult the ICPDR calendar, available at www.icpdr.org/calendar. 4-5/4/2013 VIEnnA, AUStRIA Joint Programme of
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