In RISKBASE, leading European    
scientists and representatives of major, European    
stakeholder groups will review and synthesise the    
outcome of EC RTD Framework Program projects,    
and other major initiatives, related to integrated risk    
assessment-based management of the    
water/sediment/soil system at the river-basin scale.    
The synthesis will lead to the development of    
integrated risk assessment-based management    
approaches enabling the prevention and/or reduction    
of the negative impacts caused by human activities    
on that system. 
            

The 1st public General Assembly (GA), entitled 'Towards Risk-Based  
Management of European River Basins' was successfully held in Seville,  
Spain at 24-26 January 2007. The GA presentations  
http://www.riskbase.info/content.php?p ...  
set the scene in risk-based management related science, policy and management issues,  
and are publicly available through the RISKBASE website  
http://www.sednet.org/component/option ... 
 
  
This 1st GA revealed a lot of lot of enthusiasm and motivation, in and  
OUTside the consortium, for RISKBASE. However, the GA also revealed the  
need for more focus, e.g. related to 'risk to what?'. Therefore the  
RISKBASE consortium   
http://www.riskbase.info/content.php?p ...  
and advisory panel   
http://www.riskbase.info/content.php?p ...  
concluded in a meeting at 19 march 2007 to focus the 'risk to what?' to  
risk to 'goods and services provided by the soil-sediment-water  
ecosystem'. Furthermore it was concluded that the 'target audience' of  
RISKBASE are: river basin managers responsible for the drafting of WFD  
River Basin Management Plans and also stakeholders (industry, water  
companies, NGOs, etc).  
  
With a more clear focus RISKBASE can now continue to further organize  
its activities, such as the thematic workshops. Thus we would like to  
draw your attention to the public, 1st thematic workshop entitled  
'Monitoring river pollutants: a step forward in the implementation of  
risk based management plans' (Case studies of Portuguese river basins).  
This workshop is held in Lisbon at 17 and 18 May 2007. More information  
on this workshop, a.o. on how to register, is here  
http://www.riskbase.info/content.php?_ ... 
            

Deliverables: 1) An overarching concept, generic    
approach and guiding principles to integrated risk    
based management of river basins, 2)    
Recommendations towards evolution and    
implementation of risk based management in national    
and community policies and towards implementation    
in management, and 3) A proposal for the European    
research agenda related to risk based management. 
            

Addresses topic II.2.1 “Integrated risk based 
management of the water-sediment-soil system at 
river-basin scale”. This is a topic under the thematic 
sub-priority area “Global Change and Ecosystems” in 
the 4th FP6 call for proposals, call identifier: FP6- 
2005-Global-4.