Bücher der Reihe NATO Science Series IV

The NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) held in Nice in October 2003 was designed to: provide a discussion forum for the developments in the field of environmentally-conscious strategic management of marine environments. This book includes papers submitted by the ASI lecturers and participants.

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Advanced Renewable Energies for Central Asia Countries: Economic-Environmental and Social Impacts, held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 15-17 November 2004

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Flood Risk Management - Hazards, Vulnerability and Mitigation Measures, Ostrov, Czech Republic, from 6 to 10 October 2004

Book derived from the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Seasonal to Interannual Climate Variability: its Prediction and Impact on Society, Gallipoli, Italy, 23 May - 3 June 2005

As urban areas keep growing, water infrastructure ages, and the requirements on environmental protection become more rigorous, there is a continual need for upgrading water pollution control facilities and restoring degraded urban waters.

The book contains private views of experts from various countries on the role of geological mapping in sustainable development.

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Regional Climate Variability and its Impacts in the Mediterranean Area, Marrakech, Morocco, 1 September 2006

This book presents the proceedings and the outcomes of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on Integrated Technologies for Environmental Monitoring and Information Production, which was held in Marmaris, Turkey, between September 10- 14, 200 I. With the contribution of 45 experts from 20 different countries, the ARW has provided the opportunity to resolve the basic conflicts that tend to arise between different disciplines associated with environmental data management and to promote understanding between experts on an international and multidisciplinary basis. The prevailing universal problem in environmental data management (EDM) systems is the significant incoherence between data collection procedures and the retrieval of information required by the users. This indicates the presence of problems still encountered in the realization of; (1) delineation of objectives, constraints, institutional aspects of EDM; (2) design of data collection networks; (3) statistical sampling; (4) physical sampling and presentation of data; (5) data processing and environmental databases; (6) reliability of data; (7) data analysis and transfer of data into information; and (8) data accessibility and data exchange at local, regional and global scales. Further problems stem from the lack of coherence between different disciplines involved in EDM, lack of coordination between responsible agencies on a country basis, and lack of coordination on an international level regarding the basic problems and relevant solutions that should be sought.