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ECODEFENSE!inform bulletin * issue 22-23 * Part B
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JULY-AUGUST 1994
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MONEY NEWS
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* In last week of July MAGATE specialists was working in
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Ministry on the Environmental Protection and Regional
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Development of the Republic of Latvia. They help to organize
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governmental control system for transport of radioaktive
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materials, also Latvia will receive about 200-300.000 USD for
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it.
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* Polish-Russian border (Mamonovo 1) will expand by the
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end of autumn 1994. Before this time Mamonovo 1 was opened for
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Polish and Kaliningrad citizens only. After the expansion all
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russians will be use this punkt. In perspective, Mamonovo 1
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will be the punkt of expensive new road project "Via Baltica"
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which will go from Berlin to Kaliningrad, Riga and
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St.Petersburg.
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* Experts of International Monetary Fund work in
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Lithuania from last week of July'94. The visit of IMF is in
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the plan of 17-monthes IMF program in Lithuania, also experts
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work on the project of new economical memorandum between IMF
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and Lithuania. Possibly, the memorandum will work from the
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beginning of 1995.
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Business and the Baltics nr.61 (161)
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WWF CONFERENCE ON 14th INTERNATIONAL COASTAL DAY 1994
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(continuation)
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PROGRAMME - WEDNESDAY,14th SEPTEMBER,1994
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PRESS TRIP on the River Elbe, arrival of the National Park
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Information Centre "lightship Borkumriff" at Hamburg Harbour,
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press conference on the lightship
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ARRIVAL OF PARTICIPANTS, REGISTRATION
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INFORMAL GET-TOGETHER
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THURSDAY,15th SEPTEMBER,1994 OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE &
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WELCOMING SPEECHES
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MAIN SEMINAR PAPERS
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* Untamed Natural Forces - Photographic Impressions of
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Undisturbed Natural Estuaries
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* Life Between Fresh and Salt Water - Ecology of Estuaries,
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Prof. Dr. Wim Wolff (Ministry of Agriculture, Nature
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Protection and Fisheries, Wageningen, Netherlands)
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* Ecological Status of the North and Baltic Sea Estuaries - an
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Overview, Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoepner (Institute of Marine
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Chemistry and Biology, University of Oldenburg) PRESS
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CONFERENCE
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WORKSHOP I: NATURE PROTECTION IN ESTUARIES - FROM PATCHWORK TO
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INTER-RELATED SYSTEMS
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Topics:
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* Estuaries as an Element in Riverine and Marine Protection
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* Protected Areas in Estuaries -Status quo, Deficits and
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Perspectives
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Part 1: The Wadden Sea Area
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* Trilateral Cooperation in the Wadden Sea and Estuaries - the
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Esbjerg Declaration and its Implementation
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* Protected Areas in Estuaries - Status quo, Deficits and
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Perspectives
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Part 2: The Southern Baltic Sea Area
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* Nature Conservation in a Dynamic Habitat - Models and Basic
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Questions
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WORKSHOP II: TOWARDS NEW PERSPECTIVES - COASTAL PROTECTION AND
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AGRICULTURE
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Topics:
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* How much Coastal Protection is Needed in Estuaries?
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* How much Coastal Protection is Tolerable in Estuaries?
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* Renaturalization of the Foreshore - Ruin or Opportunity for
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Agriculture?
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* A Return to Former Variety - a Realistic Vision for
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Estuaries?
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WORKSHOP III: CONTAMINANT INPUT AND POLLUTION - THE END OF THE
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RIVER?
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Topics:
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* Estuaries as Contaminant Sinks - Potential Starting Points
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for a Reduction in Industrial Inputs
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* Diffuse Sources in the Hinterland - Potential for a
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Reduction of Contaminants from Agriculture
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* Contaminant Loading from Underground Sources - What to do
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with Harbour Silt?
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* Protection of Rivers from Contaminants - Enforcement
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Problems and Legislation Gaps at the Regional Level
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WORKSHOP IV: FAILURE OR OPPORTUNITY? ECOLOGICALLY ORIENTATED
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STRUCTURE PLANNING IN COASTAL AREAS IN NORTHERN GERMANY
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Topics:
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* Estuaries: Economic or Natural Environment? - Scope for
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Environmental Development Planning
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* Harbour Economics in Northern Germany -Competition or
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Cooperation?
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* Development of Related Maritime Industries -Environment
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versus Employment?
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* Economic Development and Protection of Natural Resources
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from a County Perspective - a Soluble Conflict?
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WORKSHOP V: A BURNING ISSUE: DEVELOPMENT AND DEEPENING OF
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RIVERS ALONG THE GERMAN COAST
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Topics:
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* Desire for Development - Current Perspectives of the German
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Harbour Industry
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* Transport along New Paths - River- and Landscape-friendly
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Traffic Planning in the German Coastal Region
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* Never-ending "Adaptability"? - Ecological Consequences of
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River Development and Deepenig
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* River Conversion - 100 Years against the Stream
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RECEPTION, TALK by and DISCUSSION with the Environment
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Ministers and Senators of the Coastal Federal States
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FRIDAY, 16th SEPTEMBER, 1994
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REPORTS - PART 1: ESTUARIES - DESTRUCTION, PROTECTION AND
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MANAGEMENT - NATIONAL EXAMPLES
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* The Ems - A River at its Limits, Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoepner
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(University of Oldenburg)
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* The Lower Elbe - Industrialization of an Estuary, Andreas
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Ahrens (Institute of Ecology and Politics, Hamburg)
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* Riverine Ecosystems Cut off from the Sea - the River Eider
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as an Example, Prof. Dr. Berndt Heydemann (Research Unit for
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Ecosystem Research and Ecotechnology, University of Kiel)
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* The River Weser - Chances for Regeneration? Dr. Michael
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Schirmer (University of Bremen) * The Odra Mouth - Assured
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Future as an Integral Conservation Area? Dr. Hartmut Mueller
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(National Park "Unteres Odertal", Schwedt)
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RESULTS OF THE WORKSHOPS / ADOPTION OF THE RESOLUTION
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PRESS CONFERENCE
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REPORTS - PART 2:
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ESTUARIES - DESTRUCTION, PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT -
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INTERNATIONAL EXAMPLES
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* Still without a Dyke - the Estuary of Varde, Hans-Jorgen
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Olesen (to be confirmed), (Vadehavssekretariatet, Esbjerg,
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Denmark)
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* Restoring the Delta - Rhine and Schelde Estuaries, Drs.
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Carla Bisseling (Information and Knowledge Centre for Nature
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Conservation, Wageningen, Niederlande)
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* Integrated Estuarine Management in the United Kingdom, Dr.
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Duncan Huggett (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds,
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Sandy, Beds., Great Britain)
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* Estuarine Management in the Baltic Sea Area - Nemunas,
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Vistula and Daugava (Memel, Weichsel, Duena), Dr. Bertil
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Haegerhaell (WWF International Baltic Programme, Solna,
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Sweden)
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* Turning the Tide - Cooperative Efforts to Save Chesapeake
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Bay, Dr. Bill Matuszeski (U.S. Environmental Protection
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Agency, Chesapeake Bay Program, Washington, USA)
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FINAL PLENARY SESSION
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SATURDAY, 17th SEPTEMBER, 1994
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FIELD TRIPS
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* Lower Elbe: A combined long-boat and bus trip during which
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some ecological problems of the Lower Elbe will be explained,
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local conservation areas and their management plans will be
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illustrated. * Nature Conservation Area Haseldorfer Binnenelbe
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including the Elbe Foothills: The nature conservation site
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belongs to the "Important Bird Area Pinneberg - Elbmarschen".
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Following the controversial dyke construction on the
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Haseldorfer and Wedeler Marsh, it was promoted as a
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conservation site of national importance, now to be maintained
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and developed as a wetland area. * Hamburg Wadden Sea National
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Park / Neuwerk Island: The marsh island Neuwerk is part of the
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Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park. Extensive salt-flats spread
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out from the island's central point (which is surrounded by a
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dyke); the western part of the island is a protected area for
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birds and is managed by the "Verein Jordsand". * The Elbe
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above Geesthacht: Above Geesthacht through to the border of
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Czechoslovakia, the Elbe remains one of the least restructured
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rivers in Europe. Thus just as major comprehensive plans are
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afoot to revitalise and protect the river, wide-ranging
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widening and extension plans also exist. Hence the future of
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the Elbe remains unknown.
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TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
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Conference Fee: DM 80,00 (DM 40,00 reduction) excl. excursions
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Location: Zoological Institute and Zoological Museum at the
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University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther King Platz 3, D-20146
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Hamburg Conference language(s): German / English There is a
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large exhibition area available Accomodation: via the tourist
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information service in Hamburg City Funded by: The German
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Federal Ministry for the Environment, Environmental Protection
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and Reactor Safety, Bonn - Senator for Environmental
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Protection and Town Development of the Free Hanseatic Town
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Bremen - Environmental Protection Agency, Hamburg - Holsten
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Brewery Ltd., Hamburg
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FURTHER INFORMATION, FULL VERSION OF THE PROGRAMME AND
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APPLICATION FORM available from WWF-Germany, Coastal & Marine
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Unit, Am Guethpol 11, D- 28757 Bremen, Tel. +49 421 65846-10
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ECODEFENSE!inform bulletins get more than 150 env.NGOs of EARTH
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Editorial Board thanks for financial help from "Sowing the
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Seeds of Democracy: A project for Environmental Grant-Making
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in tha NIS" program, which realize by ISAR.
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Editorial Board: Alexandra Koroleva, Vladimir Sliviak
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From: ecodefense (Vladimir Slivyak)
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For Love and Freedom on Clean Mother-Earth!
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"ECODEFENSE!inform"environmental inform-bulletin * number 22-23
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.........................................* JULY - AUGUST 1994 *
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"ECODEFENSE!"
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Moskovsky prospekt 120-34
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236006 Kaliningrad/Koenigsberg
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Russia
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telephone +7 0112 437286
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E-mail: ecodefense@glas.apc.org
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CONTENT
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News on:
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- PUBLICATIONS
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- MEETINGS
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- ENVIRONMENT
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Document
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IPPNW PRESS-RELEASE ON HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI DAY
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Meetings
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WWF CONFERENCE ON 14th INTERNATIONAL COASTAL DAY 1994
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Various
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MONEY NEWS
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- publications
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Published the ECOLOGIA newsletter issue 28 by US NGO Ecologia
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from Pennsylvania. Content: environmental consultant - what's
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in the name?; your right to know: a progress report on the
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EBRD; ECODEFENSE! statement about nuclear incident etc. The
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newsletter available in Russian, English, Lithuanian from
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office in Lithuania. Contact: Giedre Donauskaite, Zemynos
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43-57, Vilnius 2022, Lithuania, e-mail: root@jt.aiva.lt
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The newsletter of the Working Team on Renewables will be
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published in second half of August. Content: any kind news on
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energy. Available in English only; contact: Vladimir Sliviak
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ECODEFENSE!inform.
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Published "Zielone Brygady" (Green Brigades) issue 6 (60)
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1994 in Polish. Content: news from environmental, alternative
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activists in Poland. Contact: Andrzey Zwawa editor,
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greenbri@alpin.gn.apc.org
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- meetings
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Conference on Environmental Education in Europe, CEEE'94
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"European Environmental Future" will be held on 11-16 October
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1994 in Latvia. Organized by University of Latvia Ecological
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Centre in collaboration with Faculty of Education of the
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University of Strathclyde, Scotland UK, Noordelijke Hogeschool
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Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, Mid Sweden University, Sweden,
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Gaia Educational Centre, Thessaloniki, Greece. Contact:
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Ecological Centre, University of Latvia, 19 Rainis Blv., Riga,
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LV-1586 Latvia
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A conference "Strategic planning in environmental education
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for school system" of European Committee for Environmental
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Education to be held in Jurmala (Latvia), by 17-19 October
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1994. Organized by CESAMS in collaboration with Ministry on
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the Environmental Protection and regional development of the
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republic of Latvia and Republic of Latvia Ministry of
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Education, Culture and Science. Contact: Ecological Centre,
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University of Latvia, 19 Rainis Blv., LV-1586 Riga, Latvia
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- environmental
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PAP News Wire August 2, 1994 HEAT WAVE CAUSES FOREST FIRES,
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BOOST FRIDGE SALES WARSAW, AUG. 2: THE UNUSUAL HEAT WAVE THAT
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HAS PREVAILED IN POLAND SINCE JULY RESULTED IN AN EXCEPTIONAL
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DEMAND FOR REFRIGERATORS. A FACTORY MANUFACTURING
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REFRIGERATING
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GERMANY TO TAKE BACK PESTICIDES FROM ALBANIA By Katerina
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Syrimi BONN, Aug 3 (Reuter) Germany, bowing to pressure from
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environmentalists, has agreed to take back more than 400
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tonnes of toxic pesticides it donated to Albania, Environment
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Minister
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BOLIVIA: GERMANY DENIES PATACAMAYA-BONN, (Aug. 3) IPS -
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Germany's Ministry of Environment says that the controversial
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German chemical shipment that triggered a violent
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confrontation in a Bolivian mountain town over the weekend was
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neither "toxic"
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MAJOR DAM CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS CRITICIZED STOCKHOLM, (Aug.
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3) IPS Dam construction industry lobbies in the North and
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supporters of high tech projects in the South are working
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together to keep the general public ignorant of the social and
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environmental damage
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08/05 Greenpeace protests German nuclear waste dump BERLIN,
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Aug. 5 (UPI) Activists from the environmental group Greenpeace
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on Friday blocked the entrance to a nuclear waste storage
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facility in the eastern German town of Morsleben, claiming it
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is unsafe
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Polish News Bulletin August 5, 1994 Warning Against Ozone
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SOURCE: Rzeczpospolita No.181, 5 August 1994 p.1 The basic
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symptoms of ozone contamination are eye irritation, head and
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throat aches, coughing, tiredness and breathing difficulties.
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FOOD CHEMICAL NEWS June 20, 1994 GREENPEACE ASKS FOR PHASEOUT
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OF PVC DUE TO DIOXIN CONCERNS Citing testing done by Swedish
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researchers, Greenpeace has called for the phaseout of
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polyvinyl chloride (PVC) by the year 2001.
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IPPNW PRESS-RELEASE
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Physicians demand the immediate elimination of nuclear weapons
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Berlin, In memory of the 49th anniversary of the atomic
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bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the German Section of the
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The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
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(IPPNW) call on the nuclear powers to finally eliminate the
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48,000 nuclear weapons still in existence, with an explosive
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power eqivalent to 900,000 Hiroshima Bombs. Michael Roelen,
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Executive director of IPPNW Germany states: "Either we get rid
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of nuclear weapons or they will get rid of us". In Europe
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alone, including the American bases in Germany, there are more
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than 700 American nuclear warheads, as well as a secret number
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of French and British. Since the first nuclear test "Trinity"
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on July 16th 1945 in Alamorgodo in the desert of New Mexico,
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the five nuclear powers - USA, the United Kingdom, France,
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China and the former USSR - have conducted 1,936 nuclear tests
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over 49 years, in the atmosphere and underground. The total
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explosive power of all tests up to now is equivalent to over 1
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billion tons of TNT. These tests spread radioactivity all over
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the globe that will continue to exist for many thousands of
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years. These and other radionuclides create great health
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problems. According to IPPNW estimates, the radioactivity
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breathed in by humans will have produced 430,000 fatal cancer
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cases by the end of the century. If the next century is added
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on then the sum rises to 2.4 million. Nuclear tests are a sign
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of contempt for health and the environment. From a health
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point of view, the worst affected have been minorities, rural
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people; people deprived of their rights, because the
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government wanted to erect their testing facilities on their
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land. The International Physicians for the Prevention of
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Nuclear War supports the initiative of member countries of the
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WHO and the UN to ask the International Court of Justice to
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declare nuclear weapons illegal. The physicians call on all
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the member states of WHO and UN to adopt this initiative. The
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Executive Director of IPPNW Germany states: "It is now time,
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49 years since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that the
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people force the nuclear powers to reduce their nuclear
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arsenals to zero."
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Michael Roelen
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14th INTERNATIONAL COASTAL DAY 1994
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"WATER BETWEEN LAND AND SEA - ESTUARIES UNDER PRESSURE"
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International Conference from 14th to 17th September,1994 at
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the Zoological Institute and Zoological Museum University of
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Hamburg
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organized by:
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*WWF-Germany, Coastal & Marine Unit
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*Norddeutsche Naturschutzakademie
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*Verein Jordsand zum Schutze der Seevoegel und der Natur e.V.
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BACKGROUND
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The North and Baltic Sea Coasts often stand in the front line
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of attack - from nature and economics. In our river estuaries,
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the conflicts between economics and nature conservation are
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clearly illustrated.
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As many large harbours are situated there, estuaries are
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directly influenced by the effects of all developments in
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maritime operation and harbours. Extended deepening of the
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river-bed will be continued in the rivers Elbe, Weser and Ems,
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the same fate may await the Odra. Efforts costing millions are
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employed to channel the lower reaches of rivers and huge
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amounts of sediments - sometimes heavily contaminated - are
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moved around every year in order to make the river-mouths
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"suitable" for shipping companies. Some rivers have to cope
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with enormous contaminant loadings. Dykes and dams uncouple
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estuaries from the ecologically-important influence of the sea
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and have also contributed to the drastic change in the once
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vital river landscape. Just a few examples of the diverse uses
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which are required of river-mouths. Until now, however, their
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ecological value has been either underestimated or hardly
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considered. This will also be one of the themes of the Coastal
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Day.
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To develop estuaries in an environmentally sensitive manner is
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a complex process and requires a fine-tuned approach rather
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than forcing it into stone and steel corsets. How can
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estuaries be integrated into conservation concepts for
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protection of the Wadden Sea? What new schemes are necessary
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for coastal protection and agriculture? Is there still a
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chance for ecologically-oriented planning in the coastal
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region? What possibilities are there to achieve a reduction in
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shipping activities and contaminant loads in rivers? Are not
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the shipping and harbour industry undermining their own basis
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if they continue to set their sights on river deepening and
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unrestrained competition? What management plans should be
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adopted for estuarine development in the future? In order to
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answer these questions accurately and com-prehensively,
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national and international experience must be drawn together:
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from organisations, management, science, politics, from theory
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and practice. You are warmly invited to share in this
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discussion, to gather information and to take part in further
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steps towards possible solutions.
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continuation in the end of part B
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