Socio-Ecological Union (SEU)

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Socio-Ecological Union (SEU) serves as an umbrella group for over 250 independent non-governmental organisations and groups from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and the United States of America.

The Socio-Ecological Union operates without a vertical administrative structure. Its associated members are organisationally and financially independent. There are no membership fees. The supreme body of SEU is the Conference. A council, elected at the annual conferences, is not a governing body, but an assembly of persons entrusted to represent the SEU and act on behalf of the SEU in between conference gatherings. The SEU operates a centre for Coordination and Information in Moscow which collects and disseminates information and coordinates working groups. A number of centres have been organised around specific topics such as biodiversity and nuclear ecology.

The SEU's activities include:

• Environmental monitoring:
• Protection of biological diversity and the management of protected areas:
• Non-governmental environmental-impact assessments of several energy projects were managed by SEU experts.
• The SEU is also active in environmental education, sustainable development issues, environmental aspects of local self-government, development of new environmentally sound technologies, and military conversion issues, among others.

Last updated:    January 1997

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