International river basin management under the EU water framework directive: An assessment of cooperation and water quality in the Baltic Sea Drainage Basin

Ambio

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 304-311

  Nilsson, Susanna ^a   Langaas, Sindre ^b,c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Royal Institute of Technology ^*  (Sweden)

^c County Administrative Board of Stockholm ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN MANAGEMENT; DRAINAGE BASIN; EUROPEAN UNION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; RIVER BASIN; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUROPE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; RIVER; SEA; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EUROPE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; OCEANS AND SEAS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER PURIFICATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; KALININGRAD [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; NEMUNAS DELTA; POLAND; PREGOLYA BASIN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; VISTULA BASIN;

EID: 33845345260     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/06-A-128R.1     Document Type: Article

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46. We thank the Swedish national member organization of IIASA, FORMAS, and the BSR Interreg IIIB Programme for financial support.
47. First submitted 12 Jan. 2006. Accepted for publication 16 June 2006.