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General Publications

Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC) 2006 Progress Report
This report describes activities and outputs throughout entire 2006.


The Environment and Security Initiative
An international partnership for managing conflict and risk

ENVSEC brochure.


Advisory Board Meeting Report
Report of the Advisory Board Meeting held in Vienna, Austria,
31 October 2006.


Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC) 2005 Progress Report
This report describes activities and outputs throughout entire 2005.


ENVSEC Half year report 2005
The half year report 2005 covers highlights of the ENVSEC activities and outputs between January and July 2005.


Advisory Board Meeting Report
Report of the Advisory Board Meetingheld in Bratislava, Slovakia 29–30 September 2005.


environment and security - a summary of the UNEP-UNDP-OSCE initiative. UNEP, 2004.
Also available in russian UNEP, 2004.


Play the ENVSEC introductory video
This brief presentation by Television Trust for the Environment (TVE) highlights the linkages between environment and security in the regions of South Eastern Europe and Central Asia, outlining how the ENVSEC Initiative seeks to harness these linkages to promote cooperation and mutual understanding.
Year: 2003, Duration: 7'40'', Language: English.


Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC) 2004 Progress Report
This report is the second in the series of the ENVSEC Initiative Progress Report. It describes activities and outputs throughout entire 2004.


Addressing Environmental Risks and Promoting Peace and Stability: The post Kiev process
This paper describes the structure and aspirations of the ENVSEC initiative following the Kiev 'Environment for Europe' Ministerial in May 2003.


Environment, Conflict and Cooperation exhibition
Visualizes the dramatic impacts of global environmental change. It was conceived and realized by Adelphi Research, Adelphi Consult and Weltformat.Design at the initiative of the German Foreign Ministry. Co-financed by envsec. 2005.

 

Central Asia Publications

Environment and Security: Transforming risks into cooperation - The case of the Eastern Caspian Region. UNEP, UNDP, UNECE, OSCE, REC, NATO, 2008.
Also available in russian


ENVSEC Work Plan for Central Asia in RUSSIAN


ENVSEC Work Plan for Central Asia in ENGLISH


Meeting summary, Upper Amu Darya River Basin (Kabul 20-21 November 2007)


Meeting summary - East Caspian and Amu Darya consultations (17-18 September 2007 in Ashgabat)


Fifth Regional meeting of Oblast Environment Protection Departments on “Environment and Security Programme” in Ferghana Valley (Hotel “Dostuk”, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 19 June 2007)
Also available in russian


Regional Workshop on Natural Disasters Preparedness in Ferghana Valley (Hotel “Dostuk”, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 20 June 2007)
Also available in russian


Third Regional meeting of Local Environmental Authorities from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan (Ala-Archa Residence, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 13 February 2006) - SUMMARY REPORT. UNEP, 2006.
Also available in russian


Ferghana Valley Environmental Media Tour - 5 - 10 June 2005. UNEP, 2005.


Environment and Security: Transforming risks into cooperation - Central Asia - Ferghana / Osh / Khujand area. UNEP, 2005.
Also available in russian


Ferghana Valley assessment and regional workshop (Osh, Kyrgyzstan, 3-7 December, 2004) - Ferghana-Osh-Khudjand area - INTERIM REPORT. UNEP, 2004.


Environment and Security Initiative: Transforming Risks into Co-operation - Central Asia - Ferghana Triangle - BACKGROUND PAPER ( 5.54 Mb). UNEP, 2004.
Also available in russian


Environment and Security - Transforming risks into cooperation. The Case of Central Asia and South Eastern Europe. UNEP, 2003.
Also available in russian


Addressing Environmental Risks in Central Asia: Risks, Conditions, Policies, Capacities. UNDP, 2003.
This report assesses major environmental risks related to security and describes the socio-economic context and the institutional and policy framework available to address these in the five Central Asian countries.
Also available in russian


Background Paper - Environment & Security in Central Asia
A brief introduction to the links between environment and security, and a discussion of the issues of greatest relevance in Central Asia. Saule Ospanova, Alexander Carius, and Jason Switzer.


Meeting Summary: Defining Environment & Security in Central Asia (366 kb)
1st Regional Consultation, C Asia
Ashgabad, January 20-21, 2003

 
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Eastern Europe Publications

Work programme. ENVSEC, 2008.


ENVSEC April 2008 information bulletin. ENVSEC, 2008.


ENVSEC November 2007 information bulletin. ENVSEC, 2007.


ENVSEC July 2007 information bulletin. ENVSEC, 2007.


Environment and Security - Transforming risks into cooperation - The Case of Eastern Europe. ENVSEC, 2007. (russian version)


Poster - Environment and Security - Transforming risks into cooperation - The Case of Eastern Europe. ENVSEC, 2007. (russian version)


Field study of the Beloozerskaya water-feed system of the Dnieper-Buh canal (June-July 2008) (english summary)


State of the environment of the Donetsk region of Ukraine (in Ukrainian, Donetsk; launched at the 6th Ministerial Conference 'Environment for Europe', Belgrade, October 2007).


Background paper for consultations in Chisinau – Kyiv – Minsk (Russian only), UNEP, 2006.
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Republic of Belarus: Environment and Security (russian version)
Background paper for UNEP, 2006.


Identification and description of key environmental and security problems in the Republic of Moldova (russian version)
Background paper for UNEP, 2006.


Ukraine country chapter for ENVSEC
Background paper for UNEP, 2006.


Identification and review of key environmental and security problems in the Transnistrian region, Republic of Moldova (russian version)
Background paper for UNEP, 2006.

 
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South Eastern Europe Publications

blanckInnovative Techniques and Technologies for Contaminated Mine Waters Assessment, Management and Remediation. Technical Workshop Report. March 26 – 29, 2007; Brestovacka Spa, Bor, Serbia. ENVSEC, 2007.pdf

Balkan Vital Graphics. ENVSEC, 2007.
Frontmatter (0.2mb), BACKGROUND (12mb), MINING (24mb), WATER (12mb), NATURE (23mb), References (5mb).


Technical workshop on innovative techniques and technologies for contaminated mine waters assessment, management and remediation
March 26 – 29, 2007; Brestovacka Spa, Bor, Serbia. Workshop summary report
. ENVSEC, 2007.


Improving regional cooperation for risk management from pollution hotspots as well as the transboundary management of shared natural resources” - a short summary of the project. ENVSEC, 2006.


Draft of the refined assessment of the South Eastern European mining-related risks: Identification and verification of “environmental hot spots” for Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. Prepared as a part of the UNEP Vienna coordinated ADA project: “Improving regional cooperation for risk management from pollution hotspots as well as transboundary management of shared natural resources”. UNEP, 2006.


Mining for Closure - policies, practices and guidelines for sustainable mining and closure of mines
UNEP, 2005.
See also explanatory summary


Final Report from the sub-regional conference "Reducing Environment and Security Risks from Mining in South Eastern Europe and the Tisza River Basin", 11-13 May 2005, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
OSCE, UNDP, UNEP, NATO, 2005.


Desk Assessment on Reducing Environment & Security Risks from Mining in South Eastern Europe (SEE) - Rapid Environmental Assessment of the Tisza River Basin (TRB) (Explanatory summary)
OSCE, UNDP, UNEP, NATO, 2005.


Rapid Environmental Assessment of the Tisza River Basin. UNEP, 2004.
Almost five years after a cyanide spill from a gold mine in northern Romania travelled down the Tisza river in Hungary, leaving a trail of ecological destruction in its wake, local communities in the region remain at risk from floods and industrial pollution.


Reducing Environment & Security Risks from Mining in South Eastern Europe
Desk-assessment study for the Environment and Security Initiative Project
November 2004
See also EXECUTIVE SUMMARY


Environment and Security Consultations in South Eastern Europe
Skopje, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
23-24 September 2004
 


Environment and Security - Transforming risks into cooperation. The Case of Central Asia and South Eastern Europe. UNEP, 2003.
Also available in russian
 


Meeting Summary: Defining Environment & Security in SE Europe (182 kb)
1st Regional Consultation, SE Europe
Belgrade, December 3-4, 2002

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Southern Caucasus Publications

Regional South Caucasus Meeting, Hotel Ambasadori, Tbilisi, Georgia, 17-18 January 2007
Meeting report.


OSCE-led Environmental Assessment Mission to fire-affected territories in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Report to the OSCE Chairman-in-Office from the Coordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities
October 2-13, 2006. ENVSEC supported and participated in the mission mandated by a UN General Assembly Resolution. The report was submitted in a letter dated 20 December 2006 from the Permanent Representative of Belgium to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General.


Environment and Security - Transforming risks into cooperation - The Case of the Southern Caucasus. UNEP, 2004.
Also available in russian

This report presents through maps and graphics the linkages between environmental stress, potential social tension and areas of particular vulnerability in the Southern Caucasus, as identified by stakeholders from the countries.


Poster: Environment and security priority areas in the Southern Caucasus. UNEP, 2004.
Also available in russian

 
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