ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

BSU – Belarus State University;

BELNITs EKOLOGIA – Belarus Scientific research Center “Ekologia” affiliated with the Ministry of Natural resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus;

GGEMOO – Gomel City Youth Environmental Public Association;

GIS – geographic information system;

Goskomgidromet – State Hydrometeorology Committee of the Republic of Belarus (subsequently renamed into the Hydrometeorology Department of the Ministry of Natural resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus);

GU – public institution;

GEF – Global Environment Facility;

IPIPRE NANB – Institute for the Study of Problems Related to Natural Resources Utilization and Ecology affiliated with the Belarus National Academy of Sciences;

CIDA – Canadian International Development Agency;

KPR – natural resources committee (of the Russian Federation);

IAEA – International Atomic Energy Agency;

MGOO – Minsk City Public Association;

Minzhylkomkhoz – Housing and Communal Services Ministry of the Republic of Belarus;

Ministry of Natural Resources – Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus;

Ministry of Ecology – Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine;

MOO – youth public association;

MEU – International Environmental University;

NAS (Belarus) – Belarus National Academy of Sciences;

NII – scientific research institute;

NGO – nongovernmental organizations;

NAP – National Action Plan;

NEMS – National Environmental Monitoring System (Republic of Belarus);

OAO – open joint-stock company;

ÎÎ – public association;

UN – United Nations;

PO – production association;

EU TACIS Program – EU technical assistance program for the Commonwealth of Independent States;

UNDP – United Nations Development Program;

SC – Steering Committee;

RUP – republican unitary enterprise;

RTsGE – Republican Hygiene and Epidemiology Center affiliated with the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus;

SMI – mass media

SAP – Strategic Action Program;

TDA – transboundary diagnostic analysis;

UP – unitary enterprise;

IDRC – International Development Research Center, Canada;

TsNIIKIVR – Republican Unitary Enterprise “Central Scientific Research Institute for Integrated Use of Natural Resources affiliated with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus;

TsRKM – Public Institution “Republican Center for Radiological Control and Environmental Monitoring”, Hydrometeorology Department, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus;

UNEP - United Nations Environment Program;

UNIDO – United Nations Industrial Development Organization.

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