European Fundend Projects

  • ID:
    projects-577
  • fiwar:
    LIFE98 ENV/FIN/000573
  • Project_Acronym:
    Boreal river basins
  • Project_Name:
    A cost-effective decision support system for management of boreal river basins
  • Funding Authority:
    LIFE
  • Call for proposals:
    Environment
  • Focus Area:
    River basin management
  • Begin Date:
    1998-09-01
  • End Date:
    2001-09-01
  • Status:
    Completed
  • Budget:
    No data
  • Description:
    The main purpose of the project was to create a new, cost-effective, practical tool for sustainable river basin management: an interactive computer-based decision support system. This interactive computer-based system Decision Support System (DSS) would help local decision-makers in the private and public sectors to integrate environmental considerations into land-use planning and management practices. The tools developed would be tested and demonstrated in pilot projects on three rivers. This would aid the project to mark the gaps on existing knowledge on water pollution control of rivers and river status assessment and to draw up guidelines for cost-effective and adequate monitoring procedures according to the WFD. The information gained would be used to promote more effective pollution control, and ecological land-use by various target groups from decision-makers to school children through an accessible web site. The objectives would be delivered through 2 key tasks: 1) The development and dissemination of environmental information packages on the project web site. 2) The improvement of river basin management through: - Automatic monitoring - Decision Support system - Diffuse pollution and point source pollution of target rivers - Guidelines for general level river basin management - Guidelines for cost-effective river status assessment and monitoring The computer-based tools would be developed in three languages (Finnish, Swedish and English) and would be designed to be easily transferable to other EU countries.
  • Resource:
    https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/life/publicWebsite/project/LIFE98-ENV-FIN-000573/a-cost-effective-decision-support-system-for-management-of-boreal-river-basins
  • Inland water types:
    Rivers and estuaries'