GAIA Case Studies

GAIA incorporates a number of case studies from the participating institutions. Each case study is meant to illustrate a set of issues, related to the structure of Agenda 21 Using the same structure for the presentation of the case studies (as defined in a set of guidelines ) , supports comparison across regions and across issues becomes straight forward.

The initial set of Case Studies includes:

	Communicable Diseases in Urban Centers Buenos Aires		Urban Air Pollution Buenos Aires
	Urban Air Pollution Mexico City		Sustainable Urban Development Guilin
	Deforestation and Land Degradation SE-Asia		Deforestation and the Politics of Land Ownership Venezuela
	Landuse in Dry Tropical Savannas Zimbabwe		Coastal Zone development and Climate Change Egypt
	Sustainable Urban Development India

Additional case studies from several subsequent projects have been summarized in the GAIA framework:

ECOSIM: Berlin, Germany Gdansk, Poland Athens, Greece SIMTRAP Milano, Italy Berlin, Germany SUTRA: Buenos Aires, Argentina Geneva, Switzerland Thessaloniki, Greece Genoa, Italy TelAviv, Israel Gdansk, Poland Lisbon, Portugal ISIREMM: Tomsk, Russia AIDAIR/WEBAIR: Izmir, Turkey Geneva, Switzerland Limassol, Cyprus Seoul/Gyeong-ge, South Korea Tehran, Iran EIAxpert: Mekong, South-East Asia

SMART: Gediz, Turkey Abou Ali, Tripoli, Lebanon Abu Kir, Egypt Aqaba, Jordan Hammamet, Tunisia OPTIMA: Dhiarizos, Cyprus Gediz River, Turkey Lower Litani, Lebanon Zarqa, Jordan WadiZeimar/Alexander, Palestine/Israel Melian, Tunisia Martil, Morocco WaterWare: Lerma/Chapala, Mexico Kelantan, Malaysia Yangtze, China Nile Basin, Eastern Africa AirWare: Vienna, Austria Pisa, Italy Morioka, Japan Vitoria, Spain Helsinki, Finland