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Large Rivers Symposium
Second International Symposium on the Management of Large Rivers for  
 
The objectives of the symposium will be to:

-provide for people working on the management and development of rivers a forum to review and synthesize the current status of large rivers systems including their ecology, fisheries, environmental impact assessments, multiple uses of resources and associated socio-economic considerations

-raise the political, public and scientific awareness of the importance of river systems, the living aquatic resources they support and the people that depend upon them

-contribute to better management, conservation and restoration of the living aquatic resources of large rivers.

 

Web address http://www.lars2.org/main.htm

from 11-02-2003 to 14-02-2003

Region covered No particular region
Venue Hotel Le Royal, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Organizer(s) Mekong River Commission (MRC), the Cambodian Department of Fisheries (DOF), FAO
Contact email info@lars2.org



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