Proceedings of the European Symposium of Spatial Planning Approaches towards Sustainable River Basin Management, May 14-15.2007, Rovaniemi, Finland

On behalf of the Baltic Sea Region INTERREG III B project Watersketch partners, the organising committee organised its final event European Symposium on Spatial Planning Approaches to Sustainable River Basin Management. The symposium took place at the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi , Finland , on 14-15 May 2007.

The overall aim of the symposium was to present and discuss some of the cross-cutting issues on spatial planning approaches to sustainable river basin management and to present the results of the Watersketch project. The symposium welcomed river basin managers, environmental and spatial planners and researchers.
Main themes presented and discussed in the symposium were:
European legislation on water courses and spatial planning
Approaches to sustainable river basin management
Decision-support tools and systems related to river basin planning
Public participation and the Water Framework Directive
Environmental data management
GIS in river basin management and planning