Projects

Braganca - Portugal

Association of Rivers Trusts is directly involved with the following projects:

Living North Sea
Living North Sea brings together representatives from every North Sea Interreg partner country in a programme which will make long lasting changes to the way that economically, environmentally, and socially important migratory fish species, whose stocks are shared between nations, are managed in the region. Further details here

Pinpoint
PINPOINT is a joint project between Association of Rivers Trusts and The England Catchment Sensitive Farming Delivery Initiative (ECSFDI) to provide training for Rivers Trusts staff, support and advice materials so that they can better advise farmers in England on how to reduce diffuse water pollution from agriculture. Further details here

Celtic Sea Trout
The Celtic Sea Trout Programme aims are:
• To understand and describe sea trout stocks in the Irish Sea and thereby to enhance sea trout fisheries and strengthen their contributions to quality of life, to rural economies and to national biodiversity.
• To explore the use of sea trout life history variation as atool to detect and understand the effects of climate change. Further details here

ALFA
ALFA stands for ‘Adaptive Land use for Flood Alleviation’. It is an EU-funded project (INTERREG IVB NWE) which aims to protect citizens in the North West Europe region against the effects of the risk of flooding due to climate change. Further details here

WATER
Water quality within the Channel and the Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) areas is dominated by the water quality of the numerous rivers that discharge into the Cross Border area on both the English and French sides. Water quality (and quantity) within these rivers have common problems and all have deteriorated over recent history due to the management of their catchments and the large scale loss of wetted land (including wetlands, reedbeds, wet woodlands and floodplains), which buffer the river from the land. Further details here

Blueprint for Water
ART has been involved with The Angling Trust, National Trust, RSPB, Salmon & Trout Association, Waterwise, Wildlife Trusts, WWF, and Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust in the preparation and, on 28 November 2006, the launch nationally of a manifesto for water under the title “Blueprint for Water” - 10 steps to sustainable water by 2015. A summary and the links for Blueprint for Water can be accessed by clicking on the menu on the top left of your screen. Since then the Blueprint Coalition has reviewed progress against the initial targets and, in 2010, is producing a further update on policy and targeting work.

Salmonid 21c
Salmonid 21C is an initiative to develop agreement on how we manage and conserve wild salmon, trout and sea trout stocks in the UK and Ireland in the twenty first century. By clicking on the menu on the top left of your screen, the Salmonid 21c mini-site will open in a new window.

Union des Terres de Rivieres
Part funded by the EU Interreg IIIC Programme, Union des Terres de Rivieres (U.TdR) is an ambitious networking project of 24 partners across 10 States.

The partners share two main objectives that they seek to develop through the following strategies:
1). "Water is an inalienable common heritage and its use is a fundamental human right."

2). " Europe will take a long time to construct but we, Europeans, will collaborate day after day." This means a bottom-up citizen approach to the construction of Europe .

U.TdR concerns water management and development of the fluvial landscapes. The Project includes five component task groups whose aims are the following:

• component 1. Administrative management of network data, development of a structured and sustainable network; the transformation of a network in a European Group of Transnational Cooperation;
• component 2. Water element , source of life: Resource management of water, treatment of pollution and improving water quality, desalinisation, purification;
• component 3. Water, factor of socio-cultural and economic development; Protection and development of fluvial landscapes.
• component 4. Capitalization of the knowledge and know-how for exchange, transmission and sustainability, with transversal actions of the expert groups:
• a. to be able to propose a scientific approach to a problem;
• b. to define a procedure for transnational cooperation between the local communities and the expert groups;
• c. develop the knowledge and training, to provide decision makers with decision making tools;
• component 5. Communication; to develop and improve the communication and skills both inside and outside the network.

ART is leader of Component 5 and a participant in Component 1.

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