Change in water management policy, environmental policy. 22 institutions, top universities of Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, France, Germany: change needed. The scientific arguments for the change: a series of publications including: Polyfunctional role of biodiversity in water purification; Top universities, institutions involved: Uppsala, Ghent, Universite catholique de Louvain, K U Leuven, Universite libre de Bruxelles, University of Antwerp, Maastricht University, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, and others.

Change in water management policy, environmental policy. 22 institutions, top universities of Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, France, Germany: change needed. The scientific arguments for the change: a series of publications including:  Polyfunctional role of biodiversity in water purification;  
Top universities, institutions involved: Uppsala, Ghent, Universite catholique de Louvain, K U Leuven, Universite libre de Bruxelles, University of Antwerp, Maastricht
University, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, and others.
#policy #water management  #environmental. institutions #Belgium Netherlands, Sweden, #France #Germany #change needed: http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2013/06/change-in-water-management-policy.html
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The paper was published which was cited recently:
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This paper was based on a series of serious research results and publications. This paper  formulated in a crystal clear form the following statement:
aquatic biodiversity (the entire biological community of organisms which live in water bodies and streams) function together as a hi-tech biomachinery to clean water, to maintain water quality.
This fundamental scientific result leads to an urgent practical conclusion.
The conclusion is: it is impossible to maintain water quality (in other words, water safety, water sustainability, proper water supply) without protecting the entire biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems (water bodies and streams).
This conclusion calls for a serious change in water management.
This conclusion means a call for serious changes in policies on environmental management.
Biodiversity protection is no longer a matter of  being humane. It is a matter of having proper water supply.
22 scientific institutions including  top universities as Ghent University (Belgium; the university is associated with 5 Nobel Laureates), Uppsala University (Sweden; the university is associated with 15 Nobel Laureates), Universite libre de Bruxelles (associated with 5 Nobel Laureates),  and others supported this fundamental concept. This paper was also cited by scientists of the U.S.A., Germany and other countries.

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Europe, universities: #citation of paper: #aquatic_ecosystems. Polyfunctional role of #biodiversity in #water_purification:  http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2013/06/good-universities-scientists-of-which.html
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more comment on this paper see:
Citation of.Polyfunctional role of biodiversity in processes leading to water purification.Current conceptualizations. Citation of. Polyfunctional


http://www.citeulike.org/user/ATP/article/10517397

http://alsuyus.blogspot.ru/2012/12/polyfunctional-role-of-biodiversity-in.html
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The article  (authored by scientists of 22 European institutions) that cited the abovementioned paper:
Keune H., Kretsch C., De Blust G., Gilbert M., Flandroy L., Van den Berge K., ... & Bauler T. (2013). Science–policy challenges for biodiversity, public health and urbanization: examples from Belgium. Environmental Research Letters, 8(2), 025015.
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Change in water management policy, environmental policy. 22 institutions, top universities of Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, France, Germany: change needed. The scientific arguments for the change: a series of publications including: Polyfunctional role of biodiversity in water purification;
Top universities, institutions involved: Uppsala, Ghent, Universite catholique de Louvain, K U Leuven, Universite libre de Bruxelles, University of Antwerp, Maastricht
University, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, and others.
#policy #water management #environmental. Institutions #Belgium Netherlands, Sweden, #France #Germany #change needed:

http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2013/06/change-in-water-management-policy.html

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