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<td><span style="color: #808080;"><em><strong>Title:</strong></em> </span>Responding to the Environmental Challenge? Spatial Planning, Cross-Border Cooperation and River Basin Management</td>
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<td><span style="color: #808080;"><em><strong> Publication Date: </strong></em></span>September 2011</td>
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<td><span style="color: #888888;"><em><strong>Team</strong></em>: </span><span style="color: #000000;">Caroline Creamer, Cormac Walsh, John Driscoll, Jim Hetherington, Linda Shi, Justin Gleeson &amp; Neale Blair</span><span style="color: #000000;">
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<td><span style="color: #808080;"><strong><em>Funding: </em></strong></span>CroSPlaN Initiative, an INTERREG IVA funded-project which is being administered by the SEUPB.</td>
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<td><span style="color: #888888;"><strong><em>Summary:</em></strong></span> This report recognises that environmental assets do not adhere to man-made boundaries and considers the challenges and opportunities in integrating environmental management and development strategies at national, regional and local-policy level. Building on two international case studies, the report puts forward a number of strategic options for the effective implementation of river basin plans in Ireland on a cross-border basis.<a href="http://iclrd.org/2012/02/21/responding-to-the-environmental-challenge-spatial-planning-cross-border-cooperation-and-river-basin-management/"> <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Read more</span></strong></a>
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