17 Jan. 2014, Kyiv — UNENGO “МАМА-86” has uploaded to YouTube the fifth lecture of the online course “Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) under Conditions of Climate Change: Ukraine’s Experience” “E-learning Module on IWRM: Implementation of IWRM. Part 2”.

The lecture is presented by Dr. Andriy Demydenko, Ukrainian Centre for Environmental and Water Projects (UCEWP).

The lecture is devoted to the key principles of the integrated water resources management and issues of the strategic planning in this sphere.

The online course has been founded by the Global Water Partnership (GWP)-Ukraine under support of the GWP of Central and Eastern Europe in May 2013. It is aimed at advancing of the IWRM theory and practice under conditions of adapting to extraordinary natural phenomena in Ukraine and demonstration of achievements of Ukraine’s water sector professionals in order to spread their experience in Ukraine and abroad, first of all, to GWP colleagues in the regions of Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia. That is why the course is presented in Russian with English subtitles.  

Previous four lectures of the module include an introductory lecture of GWP-Ukraine’s expert Andriy Demydenko “Specifics of Transition to the Integrated Water Management in post-Soviet Countries;” lecture of Dr. of Biology Serhiy Afanasyev, Institute of Hydrobiology of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine (NASU) “EU Water Framework Directive: Joint Principles and Methodology of the Environment Status’ Evaluation,” lecture of Professor Oleksandr Obodovskiy, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, “Hydromorphologic Evaluation of the River Water Objects” and a lecture of Dr. of Phisics and Mathematics Mark Zhelezniak, Institute of Mathematical Machines Problems of NASU, “Mathematic Modeling for Support of the Decisions in the Sphere of Water Resources Management.” (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeJ1Ix5jTF2gnnTBGmMd5PEFjaw-9dj_F).

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