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Environmental Research Center (ERC)

Environmental Research Center (ERC) is dedicated to research, education and public outreach on the environment for over 23 years and implemented 33 projects. ERC aims to contribute to the efforts to protect the environment through applied research and studies, services and consultations.

Environmental Research Center works on the following program directions:

  • Water management;
  • Drought management;
  • Disaster risk reduction;
  • Environmental pollution;
  • Ecosystem services, land management, integrated basing management.

List of selected implemented projects:

  • “Integrated Water Management Study for the Greater Baku Area, Azerbaijan: Economic Assessment”. This study aims to develop a comprehensive analysis of water use and non use values in the Great Baku Area (GBA), with a vision of integrated water management, including potable water, waste water treatment and storm water at the basin level. 2011–2012, World Bank supported to the Government of Azerbaijan in the formulation of an Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) Strategy;
  • “Toxic Site identification program/ Identification of toxic sites in Azerbaijan. Creation of database for toxic site pollutants”, 2012–2017, Pure Earth (Blacksmith Institute), European Commission and the project “Mitigating Toxic Health Exposures in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Global Alliance on Health and Pollution” UNIDO;
  • “Sumgait remediation Project in polluted beach close to the town”, 120,000 EUR, European Union, UNIDO, Pure Earth, the site owner Azerkimya Joint Stock Company (Azerkimya), and co-funded by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources (MENR) of the Republic of Azerbaijan, 2015;
  • “Desk Study on Ecosystem Services provided by Freshwater Networks in the Kura-Aras River Basin (and the Black Sea Catchment Basin)”. It is part of a regional study that includes Armenia and Georgia, which was implemented in the framework of the regional project — “Promoting Sustainable Dam Development at River-Basin-Scale in the Southern Caucasus” financially supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway and led by WWF Caucasus Programme Office, WWF Armenia and WWF Azerbaijan, 2013–2014.