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The challenge of irrigation water pricing in the Water Framework Directive
Water Alternatives, 2020 The scarcity and degradation of water resources is an important environmental challenge in Europe, which is being addressed by the Water Framework Directive, the Urban Waste Water Directive, and the Nitrates Directive.
José Albiac +3 more
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The Water Framework Directive [PDF]
Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2010 Proceedings of a conference on "Integrated River Basin Management under the Water Framework Directive", held at Le Nouveau SiÞcle, Lille, France on 26th-28th April 2010. The book reviews technical challenges faced by EU Member States, stakeholder organisations and scientists while developing the first River Basin Management Plan under the Water ...
Surridge, Ben, Watson, Nigel
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Public opinion survey as a form of public participation in the implementation of water framework directive: Case study - Leskovac field irrigation [PDF]
Facta Universitatis. Series: Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2005 The adoption of the Water Framework Directive is a turning point in the development of European water resources management. For the first time in the history of Europe, a uniform strategy for environment protection and water resources management was ...
Trajković Slaviša +2 more
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Use of seasonal epilithic diatom assemblages to evaluate ecological status in Irish lakes
Ecological Indicators, 2021 Periphyton is increasingly used to assess the biological condition of lakes. The predominance of relatively shallow exposed waterbodies in Ireland implies that epilithic diatoms should have a prominent role as bioindicators for the WFD; but epilithic ...
Bryan Kennedy, Yvonne M. Buckley
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Moravian Geographical Reports, 2022 The necessity of plural valuation of costs for flood risk management is widely acknowledged, but practical case studies are still scarce. We developed a GIS-based plural valuation framework to determine spatially explicit priority categories for flood ...
Ortmann-Ajkai Adrienne +6 more
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Cross compliance of the Water Framework and Nitrate directives in Slovenia
Acta Agriculturae Slovenica, 2006 We describe the first characterisation of the Slovene waters and show cross compliance of the Nitrate and Water Framework Directives in Slovenia. Point and disperse sources of pollution are identified, hydrological and morphological pressures to surface ...
Lidija GLOBEVNIK +2 more
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Biomarkers based tools to assess environmental and chemical stressors in aquatic systems
Ecological Indicators, 2021 The quality of aquatic systems is threated by the huge amount of chemicals dispersed in the environment. Anthropogenic activities are one of the main causes of pollution by metals, water sewage, pesticides, pharmaceutical drugs and other contaminants ...
Silvia Lomartire +2 more
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Hydrology Research, 2022 The European Union (EU) Water Framework Directive is of paramount importance for water management. According to the legal text, coordination with other directives like the Floods Directive is imperative and motivated by potential synergy effects. In this
Rolf Larsson +6 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 A huge variability exists in nutrient concentrations boundaries set for the water (WFD) and the marine strategy framework directives (MSFD), as revealed by a survey to EU member states (MS).
Fuensanta Salas Herrero +2 more
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Water quality modeling role in implementation of the Water Framework Directive [PDF]
Facta Universitatis. Series: Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2010 Regarding the complexity of the issue, the mathematical models become increasingly important for implementation of Water Framework Directive, particularly in terms of pollution control and management of water resources quality in river basin areas.
Milićević Dragan +2 more
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