Hidrológiai Közlöny, 2017 (97. évfolyam)
2017 / 3. szám - MANAGING WATER QUALITY (ONGOING PROJECTS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES) - Siegel, Hubert: CAMARO-D - a Danube basin approach to land use management
Hubert Siegel: CAMARO-D - a Danube basin approach to land use management 49 INFO BOX: Number of partners: 14 financing partners, 9 associate partners Project Budget: 2,588,138.36 EUR Project Duration: 1st January 2017 - 30th June 2019. (30months) Project Lead Partner: Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management Project Manager: Mr Hubert Siegel Contact Details: hubert.siegel@bmlfuw.gv.at Funded by: ERDF, IPA Official website of the project: http://www.interreg-danube.eu/approved-proiects/camaro-d CONCLUSIONS To sum up, it may be concluded that the CAMARO-D project consortium, comprising institutions from Austria, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Romania and Serbia aims at: • Setting the frame for a harmonized transnational land-use management system, taking into account the requirements for water resources protection and flood prevention. • • Harmonizing and improving the protection of water resources against negative impacts of land use and climate change as well as the reduction of flood risk. • Bringing life to the project outcomes by developing a transnational “Land-use Development Plan” as a driving force for transnational land use management. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to thank my colleagues at the PRISMA Solutions Project management for their help sharing their special knowledge on the subject of this paper with me. I much appreciate their support on gathering information about the proposal phase of the first Danube Transnational Call for this paper. REFERENCES Koeck, R., Hochbichler, E., Siegel, H., Kuschnig, G., Hochleitner, M., Gerhardt, E. (2017). Trinkwasser schützen. Forstzeitung, 128. Jahrgang, 05/2017, Österreichischer Agrarverlag, Wien. THE AUTHOR HUBERT SIEGEL graduated from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna. He has gained a lot of experience in state administration working for the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management. From 1995 to 2002, he worked as a Technical Director of the Austrian Torrent and Avalanche Control Service. Now he is a Director at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management at the Special Field of Land Use Planning and Risk Prevention.
