Environmental Monitoring and Governance in the East Asian Hydrosphere

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Environmental Monitoring and Governance in the
East Asian Hydrosphere

• Project Relevance
• This project has a thematic focus on
• Water pollution monitoring in coastal and river
  systems
• Protection, restoration and management of coastal
  resources
• Follows
• Chapter 17 of Agenda 21
• Section 30 of WSSD Plan of Implementation
• Elements
• 9-Country Pollution Monitoring in East Asia
• Partnership with Japanese institutions (ORI of U
  Tokyo, Iwate Gov.)
• Coastal Ecosystem Management (with UNESCO, ISME)
• It is a UNU-INWEH and UNU ESD partnership project
• Funded by ESD, UNU-INWEH, Shimadzu Corp, Iwate
  Prefecture, UNESCO

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Planned Project Activities

• Monitoring and database development to continue
  through 2005
• Annual International Symposia
• 2004 Beijing (May 23-25) POPs in Urban Areas
• 2005 Bangkok (April) lttopic to be decidedgt
• International Conference September 2005 in Tokyo
• Electronic Newsletter
• UNU, ORI and Iwate Workshops (Otsuchi on 11-15
  Feb. 2004)
• Cooperation with ASPACO
• Development of a database on ecotourism in
  coastal ecosystems.
• Development of Revised Mangroves Atlas
• Partnership between UNU, ITTO, International
  Society for Mangrove Ecosystems (ISME),
  UNESCO-MAB, UNEPs World Conservation Monitoring
  Centre (WCMC), and FAO