INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON 

PARTICIPATORY PROCESSES IN WATER MANAGEMENT

Budapest, 28 - 30 June 1999



Satellite Conference to the 

WORLD CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE 

Science for the Twenty-First Century: A New Commitment



Organizers: 	VITUKI (Water Resources Research Centre Plc.), 

		IAP2 (International Association for Public Participation), 

		IWRA (International Water Resources Association), 

		UNESCO IHP (International Hydrological Programme)

Venue:  VITUKI, Kvassay J. út 1 Budapest IX. Hungary

Mailing address: H-1453 Budapest 92. Pf. 27, Tel/Fax: +361 2153043, E-mail: 

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Sponsors: 

UNESCO Venice Office, Hungarian National Water Authority, Hungarian National Committee 

for Technological Development



Conference Committee

Janos Bogardi, UNESCO, Paris, France

Jozsef Gayer, VITUKI, Budapest, Hungary

Istvan Ijjas, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary

Miklos Nemeth, National Water Authority, Hungary

Jerry Delli Priscoli, US Army Corps of Engineers

Douglas Sarno, IAP2, Alexandria, Virginia, USA

Uri Shamir, UNESCO IHP, WG 4.1. Technion, Haifa, Israel

Slobodan Simonovic IWRA, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Odon Starosolszky, VITUKI, Budapest, Hungary

Marta Szabo, UNESCO Hungarian National Committee, Budapest 

Jozsef Tichy-Racs, VITUKI, Budapest, Hungary

Anna Vari, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Sociology, Budapest



DESCRIPTION OF THE CONFERENCE



The conference is based on keynote lectures, followed by plenary discussion. Next to the 

keynote lectures, the conference will rely extensively on panel discussions, where both the 

panelists and the participants can refer to specific case studies. Participants are encouraged 

to submit contributions as “working documents" of the conference, but no formal oral 

presentations are foreseen. There will be opportunities to display posters. Likewise, 

professional facilitators are invited to join the poster exhibition with their exponates 

demonstrating their techniques and services (mini-exhibition). Deadline for submission of 

working documents (up to maximum 8 pages), abstract of posters (one page) and application 

for mini-exhibition is 1 May, 1999.

	Working materials will be copied and distributed among the participants of the 

conference just as the lecture texts will be made available. The Conference Committee retains 

the right to decide which contributions will be included in the post-conference publication. 

The Conference is organized along the following main sessions:

-Participatory processes in transboundary river basin management.

-Public involvement in river basin management planning.

-Public involvement in the decision processes: planning, realization, operation.

-Tools and methods of public participation: a perspective for the future.

     A half-day-long excursion will be organized to meet participants of  public participation 

     (PP) processes at a close-by location (Szentendre Island).

     It is intended that PPWM Conference will be interlinked with the World Conference on 

     Science taking place in the same time in Hungary, reflecting to its declarations and action 

     programme.



Further details: www.datadet.hu/hydroinfo/vituki/training/satconf.htm