Building on the successful work of the first phase (2002-2004), the Pilot River Basins (PRBs) have continued to work closely also in the second phase (2005-2006) within the Common Implementation Strategy of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The objectives of Phase II of the PRB exercise were:...

From a broad perspective, the LOICZ (Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone) approach attempts to evaluate coastal change from a system perspective and assumes that the effects taking place are due to pressures within the whole basin. The LOICZ methodology was applied to the Mediterranean...