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A Europe-South America network for climate change assessment and impact studies in La Plata Basin (CLARIS - LPB)

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The CLARIS LPB Project aims at predicting the regional climate change impacts on La Plata Basin (LPB) in South America, and at designing adaptation strategies for land-use, agriculture, rural development, hydropower production, river transportation, water resources and ecological systems in wetlands. The project is coordinated with, and contributes to, the objectives of the LPB Regional Hydroclimate Project, an international project on La Plata Basin that has been endorsed by the CLIVAR and GEWEX Panels of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). General objectives of the CLARIS-LPB project are
· To provide an ensemble of regional hydroclimate scenarios and their uncertainties for climate impact studies.
· To project possible scenarios in land-use evolution for 2010-2040 and design adaptation strategies in terms of rural development for the most vulnerable areas.
· To design strategies to adapt to the possible hydrological scenarios and their consequences (hydropower, floods, river transportation and ecological systems in wetlands) over 2010-2040.
· To ensure wide dissemination of the project results to stakeholders, to the scientific community and to the public through the project web site, the production of reports, brochures, information sheets and scientific papers, and the organization of training activities for stakeholders.
· To foster long-term collaborations between European and South American Partners (sustained beyond the project lifetime).

Project information

Lead

INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT (FR)

Partners

INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT (FR), University of East Anglia (UK), Leibniz-Zentrums fur Agrarlandschaftsforschung (DE), Max-Planck Gesellschaft Institut (DE), Centro euro-Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici (IT), Università di Bologna (IT), Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (ES), Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SE), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espacias (BR), Universidade de Sao Paulo (BR), Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (BR), Universidade Federal do Parana (BR), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (AR), Universidad de Buenos Aires (AR), Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria (AR), Instituto Nacional de Agua (AR), Universidad de la Republica (U), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR), CESI RICERCA SpA (IT), University of Geneve (CH)

Source of funding

FP 7 - ENV

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Published in Climate-ADAPT Jun 07 2016   -   Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Dec 12 2023

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