Report of the Second Expert Group Workshop on River Basin Approaches to Environmentally Sound Management of Water Resources: Focus on Policy Responses to Water Resources Management Issues and Problems

This report presents the result of the Second Expert Group Workshop on River/Basin Approaches to Environmentally Sound Management of Water Resources: Focus on Policy Responses to Water Resources Management Problems and Issues which was held in Bangkok and Hat Yai, Thailand from 16-25 January 1988 under the joint sponsorship of the International Lake Environment Committee Foundation (ILEC), the United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP), the United Nations centre for Regional Development (UNCRD), the Office of the National Environment Board (ONEB) and the Prince of Songkla University (PSU). In 1987, a project on river/lake basin approaches to water resources management was jointly launched by ILEC, UNEP and UNCRD. For ILEC and UNEP this was an integral part of the project entitled "Promotion of Environmentally Sound Management of Lakes" The project aims at producing, on the basis of the output of a series of workshops, training materials useful to water resources in a river/lake basin context. The first workshop was held in 8-19 February 1988 at Otsu and Nagoya, Japan, and three categories of papers were presented and discussed at the workshop.