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The first contribution to IHP-V Projects 2.1 and 2.2, which are devoted to vegetation, land use and erosion processes (2.1) and to sedimentation processes in reservoirs and deltas (2.2), was an International Symposium on Erosion and Sediment Yield: Global and Regional Perspectives, held from 15-19 July 1996, at the University of Exeter, UK. It was organized by the International Commission on Continental Erosion (ICCE) of IAHS and co-sponsored by IHP.
The objectives were:
The programme included sessions on:
For further information please contact:
Professor Des Walling
Department of Geography
University of Exeter
Amory Building
Rennes Drive
Exeter EX4-4RJ
United Kingdom
ICEP.3, an IHP conference which addressed inherently multidisciplinary environmental issues and problems was held in Budapest from 15-19 April 1996.
More than 200 participants from 20 different countries participated in the different sessions, workshops and plenary sessions. The importance of water-related problems was made clear by the number of papers presented . Several sessions were devoted to water issues.
Two of them focussed directly on water problems: Water pollution-policy and management and water pollution-scientific issues. A parallel workshop on Water Quality Management, which focussed on eutrophication problems in Hungary was also held.
Papers and key notes presented at the Conference were published in two volumes and are available from the Conference Organizers:
ICEP Conference Office
253 Kilburn Lane (Unit 5)
London W10 4BQ
UK
Tel: +44-181-960-6823
Fax: +44-181-960-1597
FRIEND
(Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data)
FRIEND/NW EUROPE
The Fourth Steering Committee meeting of the FRIEND/NW Europe project will take place in UNESCO, Paris, on 17 and 18 October 1996. Representatives from participating countries in the FRIEND Northern and Western Europe project have been invited to attend, together with representatives from other international organizations such as WMO and GRDC. Representatives from other FRIEND projects will present progress reports on their projects to their European colleagues.
INTAS (International Association for the promotion of co-operation with scientists in the independent states of the former Soviet Union). In July 1996 the State Hydrological Institute (SHI), St. Petersburg hosted the second project meeting of the INTAS funded initiative to set up a Regional Data Centre of the FRIEND European Water Archive for the states of the former Soviet Union. During the first year of the three year project, INTAS funds were used to purchase new modern computer equipment in Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine.
Valuable hydrometric data have been loaded on to the computers at the SHI and will soon be transferred to the European Water Archive at Wallingford, UK and be generally available to researchers of the Northern European FRIEND project. Over the next two years, activities within the project will focus on acquiring additional time-series and spatial data for the FRIEND project.
As the closing activity of the project, the manual << Integrated Water Management in Urban and Surrounding Areas >>, issuing from the IHP-sponsored 1994 Gelsenkirchen, Germany workshop on the topic, is being readied for publication.
This project, an IHP-V contribution to the IDNDR (International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction), started Fifth Phase activities with a meeting in the month of June 1996 in Paris. Prof. Benedito Braga, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Rapporteur of IHP-V Project 7.1, and Prof. Cedo Maksimovic, Director of the International Research and Training Centre on Urban Drainage (IRTCUD) of Belgrade met with IHP Secretariat staff to discuss the work plan of the project.
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