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BALLERINA: GLIN's first 'sister' is born...
Stockholm, 29/4 1997
A BALLERINA ENTERS THE BALTIC ENVIRONMENTAL STAGE
(http://www.baltic-region.net/)
Today, the web site BALLERINA (Baltic Sea Region
on-line environmental information resources for Internet
access) was officially launched in Stockholm.
BALLERINA is designed to guide to a broad spectrum of information
resources and ways to communciate on environmental and natural
resource issues and sustainable development issues in the
Baltic Sea Region.
The Great Lakes Information Network - GLIN - is the 'model' for
BALLERINA. The GLIN Director Carol Ratza, who was in the Baltic
Region for a month in 1996 supporting its development, is by many
considered the 'mid-wife' of BALLERINA.
The target audience is the 'environmentally concerned' audience
in the Baltic Sea Region - and elsewhere - ranging from students
in high schools, to the professional environmental management
community and scientists.
BALLERINA is the result of a co-operative effort to
provide comprehensive information on-line.
BALLERINA is financially supported by the European Environment
Agency, the Ministries of Environment in Norway and Sweden, and the
Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.
Acting lead parties are UNEP/GRID-Arendal and Stockholm Marine
Research Centre (SMF).
For further information:
Visit BALLERINA (http://www.baltic-region.net/)
or contact
Dr. Sindre Langaas, UNEP/GRID-Arendal, BALLERINA network co-ordinator
Phone: +46-8-161737. E-mail: langaas@grida.no
or contact
Ms. Britt Hagerhall Aniansson, SMF
Phone: +46-18-469966. E-mail: ballerina@smf.su.se