With rivers to the sea : interaction of land activities, fresh water and enclosed coastal seas : proceedings seventh Stockholm Water Symposium, 10 - 15 August 1997, Stockholm, Sweden

The proceedings are organized in the following way. It starts with the Stockholm Statement. Part 1 contains the summary and conclusions from The Joint Conference / 7th Stockholm Water Symposium / 3rd International Conference on the Environmental Management of Enclosed Coastal Seas (EMECS) as a whole, and the contributions of keynote and plenary speakers. Part 2 contains the conclusions from the Chairmen and Rapporteurs of the individual workshops, followed by the written contributions of invited workshop speakers, a report from the poster session, and, finally, lists of workshop speakers, posters and participants. Twelve workshops (workshop 9 was cancelled), were organized along five different tracks: Track 1: Understanding land/sea interactions : workshops 1-5; Track 2 : Minimizing pollutants from land-based sources : workshops 6-8 (Co-convenor UNEP); Track 3 : Policies for overcoming barriers in governance : workshop 10; Track 4 : Citizen involvement : workshops 11-12; and Track 5 : Global information exchange : workshop 13. Six water systems were highlighted in particular at the conference: the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, Chesapeake Bay, Lake Victoria, the Gulf of Thailand and the Seto Inland Sea.