| Title: |
Consultation on River Basin Planning Guidance Volume 2
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| Resource Type: |
document --> guidance / decision support
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| Country: |
United Kingdom
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| Year: |
2008 |
| Availability: |
February 2008
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| Author 1/Producer: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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| Other Authors/Producers: |
Welsh Assembly Government
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| Author / Producer Type: |
Agency, regulator or other governmental or inter-governmental body
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| Publisher: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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| Publisher City: |
Nobel House
17 Smith Square
London SW1P 3JR, UK
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| Format (e.g. PDF): |
PDF
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| Size: (e.g. 20mb) |
800
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Water resources and their management -->River basin management
Water resources and their management -->River basins
Water resources and their management -->Stresses, quality and ecological status
Water resources and their management -->Water resources and their management Overview
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| Short description: |
The guidance outlines the role of environmental quality standards in implementing the Water Framework Directive (WFD), explains the range of new standards that have been developed by the UK environment agencies, and considers the way in which the Directive’s costs and benefits should be balanced. This complements the first volume of guidance, which was published in September 2006 after similar consultation, and which covers the content of the plans.
The WFD is a challenging Europe-wide plan which considers water not just in terms of individual rivers, lakes or estuaries, but acknowledges its inextricable relationship with ecosystems as a whole. A key consideration in implementing the Directive is whether measures will incur disproportionate cost and the Directive offers welcome flexibility on this point.
The guidance focuses on the nine river basin districts in England and Wales, and one of the two cross-border river basin districts in England and Scotland, each of which is required to have a River Basin Management Plan (RBMP).
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 28/02/2008
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