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MEPIELAN E-Bulletin is a digital academic and practitioner newsletter of the MEPIELAN Centre, launched in 2010.  It features insight articles, reflective opinions, specially selected documents and cases, book reviews as well as news on thematic topics of direct interest of MEPIELAN Centre and on the activities and role of MEPIELAN Centre. Its content bridges theory and practice perspectives of relational international law, international environmental law and participatory governance , and international negotiating process, thus serving the primary goal of Centre: to develop an integrated, inter-disciplinary, relational, context-related and sustainably effective governance approach creating, protecting and advancing international common interest for the present and future generations. Providing a knowledge- and information-sharing platform and a scholarly forum, the Bulletin promotes innovative ideas and enlightened critical views, contributing to a broader scholarly debate on important issues of international common interest. The audience of the Bulletin includes academics, practitioners, researchers, university students, international lawyers, officials and personnel of international organizations and institutional arrangements, heads and personnel of national authorities at all levels (national, regional and local), and members of the civil society at large.

List of 2015 Thematic News

Public Participation in Environmental Governance

Blue Plan Reports on Participatory Governance for the Multifunctional Management of Mediterranean Woodland Areas

On 30th June 2015 Blue Plan, a UNEP/MAP Regional Activity Centre, published a very interesting and stimulating report about participatory governance in Mediterranean woodland areas called “Participatory governance for the multifunctional management of Mediterranean woodland areas.

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Environmental Governance Regimes

MEDITERRANEAN SEA – The Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable Development (MCSD) Endorses the Revised Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development in Marrakech, Morocco and Recommends its New Composition

The Mediterranean Commission for Sustainable Development (MCSD) held its 16th meeting from 9 to 11 June 2015, in Marrakesh, hosted by the Government of the Kingdom of Morocco in collaboration with United Nations Environment Programme/Mediterranean Action Plan (UNEP/MAP) and Plan Bleu.

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International Environmental Negotiation Process

Third World Conference Adopts New International Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

The Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction took place from 14 to 18 March 2015 in Sendai City, Japan. The World Conference was attended by over 6,500, including 2,800 government representatives from 187 governments as well as representatives of intergovernmental organizations, UN entities, NGOs, national platforms for disaster risk reduction, local governments.

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