CABRI - Cooperation Along a Big RIver: Institutional coordination among stakeholders for environmental risk management in the Volga basin

Objective

CABRI-Volga is an international coordination action to facilitate cooperation and to coordinate research in environmental risk management in river basins in the EU, Russia & the NIS. It focuses on the Volga basin for which environmental risk manageme nt is fundamental for protecting the environment, improving socio-economic conditions and promoting agricultural and industrial economies as well as the health of the Caspian Sea. Deficiencies in governance and civil society involvement as well as low le vels of cooperation between academic and policy-making institutions have led to a situation of significant ecologic, social and economic risks in the basin. CABRI strategic objectives are, inter alia, to mobilise existing, isolated human and institutiona l resources, increase the research potential on environmental risk management in river basins as well as strengthen links between scientific communities and policy-making processes. A scientifically and institutionally complementary consortium of 18 partn ers from Russia and the EU is following an elaborated workplan to achieve the project objectives. For three series of parallel working group meetings, Russian and EU experts (~70 per series) from various scientific and institutional backgrounds will be re cruited from the extensive network of CABRI stakeholder organisations to discuss and exchange knowledge and expertise in the CABRI thematic areas, namely environmental rehabilitation, vulnerabilities & human security, natural resources & their sust ainable use, connecting goods & people (transport and mobility), and institutional coordination & cooperation.CABRI will achieve a number of concrete outcomes to be widely disseminated via the CABRI website, incl. case studies, State-of-the-Art Review, Good Practices Report, Policy Recommendations, Action Plan & Research Agenda, an established networks of experts and stakeholders from Russia/NIS & EU as well as coordination mechanisms such as the Volga

Fields of science

• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › hydrology
• social sciences › social and economic geography › transport › sustainable transport
• medical and health sciences › health sciences › public and environmental health
• social sciences › other social sciences › social sciences interdisciplinary › sustainable development
• social sciences › political science › political policy › civil society
• social sciences › sociology › governance › crisis management
• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › water treatment processes › drinking water treatment processes

Programme(s)

• FP6-INCO - Specific measures in support of international cooperation: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Topic(s)

• INCO-2003-D1 - Environmental protection

Call for proposal

FP6-2003-INCO-RUSSIA+NIS-1
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Funding Scheme

CA - Coordination action

Coordinator

RUPPRECHT CONSULT FORSCHUNG UND BERATUNG GMBH

Address

Waltherstrasse 49-51
Koeln
Germany

Participants (18)

INDEPENDENT NON-COMMERCIAL ORGANISATION ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY RESEARCH AND CONSULTING

Russia

Address

B.ordynka St., 7-1
Moscow

UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION HEADQUARTERS

France

Address

Paris

NIZHNY NOVGOROD STATE UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND CIVIL ENGINEERING

Russia

Address

Iljinskaya, 65
Nizhny Novgorod

SARATOV STATE SOCIO-ECONOMIC UNIVERSITY

Russia

Address

Radishcheva, 89
Saratov

CASPIAN MARINE SCIENTIFIC AND RESEARCH CENTER OF ROSHYDROMET

Russia

Address

Ulitsa Shiryaeva, 14
Astrakhan

INDEPENDENT NONCOMMERCIAL ORGANIZATION THE RESEARCH INNOVATION PROJECT INSTITUTE "CADASTRE"

Russia

Address

Respublikanskaya Str., Build. 42
Yaroslavl

ECOLOGICAL PROJECTS CONSULTING INSTITUTE

Russia

Address

Shchepkina Street 22
Moscow

OPEN JOINT-STOCK COMPANY "AMMOPHOS"

Russia

Address

Cherepovec

UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN SECURITY

Germany

Address

Goerrestrasse 15
Bonn

WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY

Netherlands

Address

Costerweg 50
Wageningen

ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI

Greece

Address

Administration Building-university Campus
Thessaloniki

CENTRO DI CULTURA SCIENTIFICA "A. VOLTA"

Italy

Address

Via Cantoni 1
Como

UNIVERSITAET KARLSRUHE, TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE

Germany

Address

Kaiserstrasse 12
Karlsruhe

COMPAGNIE NATIONALE DU RHONE

France

Address

2 Rue A-bonin
Lyon

THE REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

Hungary

Address

Ady Endre Ut 9-11
Szentendre

INTERNATIONAL OCEAN INSTITUTE

Malta

Address

P.O. Box 03 Gzira

AUTONOMOUS NONCOMMERCIAL ORGANISATION (ANO) INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND NATURAL RESOURCES ACCOUNTING "CADASTER"

Russia

Address

Respublikanskaya Str., Build.42
Yaroslav

KOSTROMA CITY ADMINISTRATION

Russia

Address

1 Sovietskaya-str.
Kostroma