January, 2025.
LEGMC and AKTiiVS has started implementation of a project to improve knowledge base for socioeconomic evaluation of obstacles on rivers and their management In Latvia.
The project entitled “Implementation of data collection studies and development of a national methodology for socioeconomic evaluation of measures to reduce pressures from obstacles on rivers and for justifying cost-effective measures” (No 1-08/65/2024) is implemented by the Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre (LEGMC) together with AKTiiVS with funding from the Latvian Environment Protection Fund. The work will run by September of 2026 and will fill substantial national data gaps on societal benefits and costs of obstacles on rivers and their management in Latvia, and will provide national methodology and assessments for socioeconomic evaluation and setting cost-effective measures to reduce the pressures, created by the obstacles on river ecosystems. The project’s results will contribute to updating the national River Basin Management Plans, which plan to be prepared in 2026.
Read more about the project in the section Projects and publications.
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