Year of publication
1997
Excerpt
A two year project on Mapping of Soil and Terrain Vulnerability in Central and Eastern Europe (SOVEUR) was signed between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of The Netherlands, within the framework of the FAO/Netherlands Government Cooperative Programme. The project is being implemented by FAO in cooperation with the International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC)
under a Contractual Service Agreement which included Letters of Agreement with National Collaborators within the frame of their National Institutes representing their countries in the project (13 participatory countries). The project calls for the development of an environmental information system for the region in close collaboration with soil survey institutes in Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania,
the Russian Federation, Slovak Republic and the Ukraine. Using this system and auxiliary information on climate, land use and the type of soil pollution, the status of human-induced soil degradation and the areas considered vulnerable to defined pollution scenarios will be identified and mapped (scale 1:2.5 million).Target beneficiaries are ministries and planning bodies in the collaborating countries who can
use the databases and derived maps for policy formulation at the regional and national level, for instance by identifying areas considered most at risk. The project also contributes to strengthening of the capabilities of national "environmental" organizations in Central and
Eastern Europe.
under a Contractual Service Agreement which included Letters of Agreement with National Collaborators within the frame of their National Institutes representing their countries in the project (13 participatory countries). The project calls for the development of an environmental information system for the region in close collaboration with soil survey institutes in Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania,
the Russian Federation, Slovak Republic and the Ukraine. Using this system and auxiliary information on climate, land use and the type of soil pollution, the status of human-induced soil degradation and the areas considered vulnerable to defined pollution scenarios will be identified and mapped (scale 1:2.5 million).Target beneficiaries are ministries and planning bodies in the collaborating countries who can
use the databases and derived maps for policy formulation at the regional and national level, for instance by identifying areas considered most at risk. The project also contributes to strengthening of the capabilities of national "environmental" organizations in Central and
Eastern Europe.