Kranz, N., E. Interwies, R. Vidaurre (2005): Transboundary Regimes in the Orange Senqu Basin, Contribution to Deliverable 1.3.1 of the NeWater Project, Berlin.

All companies which dispose of IPPC installations must meet the requirements of the Directive by the 30 October 2007.  The central purpose of the event is to provide the entrepreneurs concerned with the basic knowledge which is necessary for the fulfilment of the requirements of the Directive.

Dworak, Thomas et al. 2005: Deliverable 3 – WFD and Agriculture linkages at the EU level. Final Report about Rural Development Programmes. Ecologic/Warsaw Agricultural University, Berlin/Warsaw.

Herbke, Nadine; Jessica Ward; Rodrigo Vidaurre 2005: Wastewater Treatment and Reuse. Background Paper. Integrated Water Resources Management: Course for North Africa. November 28 – December 03, 2005. Rabat, Morocco.

Interwies, Eduard; Eleftheria Kampa; Benjamin Görlach 2005: Economic Instruments and Water Rights. Background Paper. Integrated Water Resources Management: Course for North Africa. November 28 – December 03, 2005. Rabat, Morocco.

Kranz, Nicole; Antje Vorwerk 2005: Participatory Management: The Rhine Basin Case. Background Paper. Integrated Water Resources Management: Course for North Africa. November 28 – December 03, 2005. Rabat, Morocco.

Marsden, Katrina; Thomas Dworak; R. Andreas Kraemer 2005: Managing Floods and Droughts. Background Paper. Integrated Water Resources Management: Course for North Africa. November 28 – December 03, 2005. Rabat, Morocco.

The protection and management of water resources at the river basin scale is gaining in importance world-wide. Only through careful and sustainable management can the current water problems be addressed, particularly in developing countries. The Nile River with its ten riparian states is like no other basin faced with specific challenges in terms of reaching integrated water resource management. On invitation of the German Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (gtz) and the German Ministry for Development and Co-operation, experts and decision-makers from the Nile riparian states visited several German and European water management institutions on 23 November 2005 and came together with Ecologic staff to exchange thoughts and ideas on experiences with the water management challenge in Europe and Africa.

Debates and discussions are still taking place on the aims of the European Commission as regards the strengthening of competition in the water sector. The question is: What would the consequences be for the German water and wastewater sector, if water provision was to be increasingly subjected to competition, public procurement and internal market rules?

Müssner, Rainer; Stephanie Schlegel; Floor Brouwer et al. 2005: Deliverable 4 – CROSS-COMPLIANCE Facilitating the CAP reform: Compliance and competitiveness of European agriculture – Specific Targeted Research or Innovation Project (STREP) – Integrating and Strengthening the European Research Area. Ecologic – Institute for International and European Environmental Policy/Wageningen University & Research Centre, Agricultural Economics Institute, Berlin.

Herbke, Nadine; Thomas Dworak and Zbigniew M. Karaczun 2005: Deliverable 2.2 - WFD and Agriculture - Analysis of the pressures and impacts. Broaden the problem's scope. Ecologic/Warsaw Agricultural University, Berlin/Warsaw.

Brink, Patrick ten; Andrew Farmer; David Wilkinson et. al. 2005: Exploration of Options for the Implementation of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) for Environmental Policy.

U.S. and European views on a number of environmental issues, such as climate change or genetically modified organisms, are frequently viewed as irreconcilable. Interestingly, there seems to be more mutual understanding and agreement on the sub-national level. In recent years, a number of transatlantic partnerships between regional and local institutions have evolved in order to exchange information and best practices in the environmental policy area. Senior Fellow Markus Knigge presented his research on the role, functioning and the effectiveness of transatlantic environmental partnerships at an AICGS workshop on 19 October 2005 in Washington, D.C.