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UNDP country offices in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia FYR, Montenegro, Serbia and the UN-administered Province of Kosovo have developed a regional demonstration programme around demand-driven projects in nine locations in the Western Balkans suffering from the legacy of polluting industries and requiring industrial renewal, environmental cleanup and new economic initiative. The approach of the 30-month, approximately 15 million USD programme is to achieve improvement of the environmental situation and quality of life for citizens living in and around polluted areas through least-cost measures, improved local and national policy dialogue and supply of domestic professional services in the environmental management sector. While the main focus will be on physical works required to mitigate ecological problems, institutional strengthening and capacity-building will be important subjects throughout the programme.
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Environmental Security Initiative.
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This intervention can be compared with another on a much larger scale, the KEK energy supply in Kosovo, also being supported by the Netherlands Regional Environmental Program for the Western Balkans.
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Although most environmental legislation is in place, implementation has been slow and therefore progress in protecting the environment and managing natural resources is not yet evident throughout the region.
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UNDP Montenegro programme team, 2007. “Strengthening capacities in the Western Balkans countries to address environmental problems through remediation of high priority hot spots”. Programme document.
ENVSEC Report: Draft of the refined assessment of the South Eastern European mining related risks: Identification and verification of “environmental hot spots” for Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, 2006.
UNEP Technical Report: From Conflict to Sustainable Development, Assessment of Environmental Hot Spots, Serbia and Montenegro, April 2004.
UNEP Final Report: Strategic Environmental Policy Assessment - FYR of Macedonia; UNEP Final Report: Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment-Albania, 2000.
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I would like to thank the UNDP Montenegro Western Balkans Environmental Programme team for its generous support in preparation of this paper.
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Williams, S., Maslać, S. (2010). Strengthening Capacities in Western Balkan Countries to Address Environmental Problems Through Remediation of High Priority Hot Spots. In: Alexandrov, V., Gajdusek, M., Knight, C., Yotova, A. (eds) Global Environmental Change: Challenges to Science and Society in Southeastern Europe. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8695-2_22
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