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HYDROLOGY AND THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE IN IRELAND [PDF]

open access: yesBiology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 2009
The Water Framework Directive (WFD) has been the catalyst for a considerable amount of data collection, analysis and research, covering a wide range of physical and biological characteristics and involving a wide range of scientific, social and management-related disciplines. This paper starts with a short description of the discipline of hydrology and
Bruen, Michael
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Water and spatial development: the implementation of the Water Framework Directive in the Netherlands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper discusses how water managers and spatial planners could co-operate on local level in combination with the implementation of the Water Framework Directive and the Birds and Habitats Directives in the Netherlands. Recent evaluations of the European Commission show that implementation of environmental directives prove to be a challenging task ...
van der Knaap, W.G.M., Pijnappels, M.
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Water Framework Directive Article 7, The Drinking Water Directive and European Pesticide Regulation: impacts on diffuse pesticide pollution, potable water decision making and catchment management strategy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) promotes increased awareness of catchment processes and challenges the established dependence on a ‘treatment-led approach’ for the supply of European Drinking Water Directive (DWD) compliant potable water. In
Dolan, Tom
core   +7 more sources

Biomarkers based tools to assess environmental and chemical stressors in aquatic systems

open access: yesEcological 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
doaj   +1 more source

Coordination of water policies for quality and quantity: experiences from Nordic and Baltic countries

open access: yesHydrology 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
doaj   +1 more source

A Novel Approach for Deriving Nutrient Criteria to Support Good Ecological Status: Application to Coastal and Transitional Waters and Indications for Use

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Water quality modeling role in implementation of the Water Framework Directive [PDF]

open access: yesFacta 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
doaj   +1 more source

THE MONITORING OF SURFACE WATER BODIES (RIVERS) FROM TISA CATCHMENT AREA - MARAMUREŞ COUNTY IN 2014 [PDF]

open access: yesAerul şi Apa: Componente ale Mediului, 2016
This study is focused on the monitoring and evaluation of river’s water bodies from Maramureş County, using the methodology associated with the EU Water Framework Directive 60/2000.
GABRIELA ANDREEA DESPESCU   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multiple indices on different habitats and descriptors provide consistent assessments of environmental quality in a marine protected area

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2023
In the last decades, climate change and human pressures have increasingly and dramatically impacted the ocean worldwide, calling for urgent actions to safeguard coastal marine ecosystems.
Alice Oprandi   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mollusk assemblages as records of past and present ecological status

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2016
AMBI and Bentix are widely used benthic indices for guiding remediation decisions under two major pieces of environmental legislation in Europe — the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD).
Gregory Dietl   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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