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Water Scenarios for Europe and for Neighbouring States (SCENES)

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Description:

Main objectives and deliverables:

1. To evaluate different methodologies for developing scenarios of Europe's waters with the aim of improving these methodologies, involving different pan-Europe, regional and pilot area scale modelling efforts.
2. To develop and analyse a set of comprehensive scenarios of Europe's fresh waters up to 2025. These scenarios will provide a reference point for long-term strategic planning of water resource development in Europe, alert policymakers and stakeholders to emerging problems related to water use (e.g. new water quality and ecological problems, new regions of water scarcity); and allow river basing managers to test their regional and local water plans against uncertainties and surprises which are inherently imbedded in a longer term strategic planning process.
3. To evaluate the socio-economic, environmental and ecological impacts of the different water scenarios. This is accomplished by analysing and assessing the complex relationships between water availability, water demand, water use, and water quality to provide a basis for strategic planning and technological alternatives.
4. To help launch an on-going process in Europe of scenario-development. We will also devise a plan for institutionalising the on-going development of water scenarios in Europe.

Main Results: Policy Drivers, Storylines, Quantification of Scenarios, Participatory process, and Regional case studies.

Project information

Lead

Finnish Environment Institute (FI)Prof. Juha KämäriUniversity of Kassel, Center for Environmental Systems Research (DE)Prof. Joseph Alcamo

Partners

* International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA)
* Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM)
* WL Delft Hydraulics (WL Delft)
* Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (NERC-CEH)
* ALTERRA B.V. (Alterra)
* Warsaw Agricultural University (WAU)
* Baltic Environmental Forum (BEF)
* Tallinn University of Technology (TUT)
* Ecole Nationale du Genie Rural, des Eaux et Forets (ENGREF)
* Centro Internazionale di Alti Studi Agronomici Mediterranei - Istituto Agronomico
Mediterraneo di Bari (CIHEAM-BARI)
* Middle East Technical University (METU)
* Technical University of Crete (TUC)
* Budapesti Muszaki es Gazdasagtudomanyi Egyetem (BUTE DSEE)
* Research Institute for Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (RISSAC)
* Institutul National de Cercetare - Dezvoltare Pentru Protectia Mediului (ICIM Bucharest) * South Russian Regional Centre for Preparation and Implementation of International Projects (CPPI-S Ltd)
* Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Land Reclamation (IHELR) * Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP)
* Wageningen University (WU)
* NATURAL RESOURCES CENTRE (NRC)
* KIWA Water Research B.V. (KIWA)

Source of funding

FP 6

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

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