Climate change and water management: managing European water resources in an uncertain future (ENRICH)
1999-2001
Sponsored by European Commission DGXII: Joint Call for Proposals on Environment-Water
Introduction
The aim of this proposed project is to examine how water resources could and should be managed in the face of global climate change, given the type and magnitude of all the pressures on water management in Europe, the uncertainties inherent in estimating the future, and the characteristics of the many different water management institutions involved.
Objectives
The broad objectives of the proposal are:
- To undertake, through catchment case studies, reviews of the pressures facing water resources and water management in Europe, over the medium to long term, and their relative importance. These studies will involve simulation of future hydrological and water resources characteristics in the study catchments, focusing in the implications of uncertainty in these future pressures
- To identify a range of potentially appropriate water management strategies and evaluation procedures, suiting different institutional environments, which can cope with climate change and other pressures
- To present guidelines to water managers (at utility, national and European scale) on the assessment of medium and long-term strategies for water management in the context of uncertain climate change
The project will evaluate and develop efficient and cost-effective ways of coping with climate change in water management in Europe. It is not concerned specifically with the development of management tools (such as software packages), but with how water resources should be managed.
| Partners
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| Coordinator |
University of Southampton |
UK |
| Partners |
National Technical University of Athens |
Greece |
| Ruhr-Universitat Bochum |
Germany |
| Institute of Hydrology |
UK |
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