Clean Rivers — Clean Sea! NGO actions for environmental protection within Black Sea area

Data

This section is dedicated to Best Practices in water management in the Black Sea region identified and arranged in a database by the project partners.

The expression Best Practices in the environmental sphere is associated with the most suitable combination between control measures and strategies for protection of the environment. When the choice of a practice is associated with a specific example, the measures below have to be considered:

• informing and educating the public and the users of the natural resource about the consequences for the environment from their activities and their choice of certain products, their use and disposal
• development an application of well known and accepted rules of good practices regarding the environment covering all aspects of the use and disposal of a given product
• labeling and indication of risks
• economy of resources and energy
• avoiding the use of substances associated with risks to the environment
• processing, reuse and restoration
• application of market instruments related to products and groups of products along with licensing and limitations or bans if necessary.

Database of Best Practices

The Best Practices are structured in the following way:

• General project info
• Location
• Descriptions
• Centre-information
• Administration

Public Involvement in Water Management. Best Practices Database (PDF, 4.38 MB)

BSNN 1 – Best Agricultural Practice (PDF, 138 KB)

BSNN 2 – Public Involvement in the implementation of the MSFD (PDF, 104 KB)

BSNN 3 – Best Practices in Agriculture Related to Quality of Waters and Nitrates Directive Implementation (PDF, 103 KB)

BSNN 4 – Best Practices in Public Support to the Establishment of Natura 2000 Sites (PDF, 88 KB)

ECCG 5 – Best Practices in Cross Border Cooperation in River Basin Management (PDF, 108 KB)

ECCG 6 – Information Campaign and Public Debates (PDF, 264 KB)

ECCG 7 – Best Practices in Cross Border Youth Involvement (PDF, 137 KB)

ECCG 8 – Best Practices in Identification and Monitoring of Land Based Sources of Pollution (PDF, 155 KB)

ECCG 9 – Best Practices in Environmental Education (PDF, 147 KB)

ECCG 10 – Best Practices in Solid Waste Reduction (PDF, 130 KB)

BSNN 11 – NGO Involvement in Policy Making and Citizen Science (PDF, 82 KB)

BSNN 12 – NGO Representation at the Black Sea Basin Council (PDF, 87 KB)

Case study 13 DYKD – Best Agricultural Practice (PDF, 72 KB)

Case study 14 DYKD – Best Environmental Education Practice (PDF, 91 KB)

Case study 15 DYKD – Improvement of the ICZM (PDF, 68 KB)

Best Practice 16 REC Caucasus – Participatory Water Resource (PDF, 135 KB)

Best Practice 17 REC Caucasus – Environmental Protection of International River Basins (PDF, 158 KB)

Best Practice 18 REC Caucasus – Sustainable Land Management (PDF, 138 KB)

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