Duration 2004 - 2007
"Global Change Impacts on the Water Cycle in the Elbe River
Basin - Risks and Options" GLOWA-Elbe II
The environmental quality and socio-economic capability
of the Elbe region is influenced to a substantial extent by factors
that either depend on water or themselves have an impact on water.
Building on the first phase of the GLOWA Elbe project we investigate
how the potentially conflict-laden fields of surface water availability
and quality of surface water are affected by structural economic
change and/or global climate change, and, on a longer-term planning
horizon, whether the region has the potential to adapt . Scenarios
of the future development of critical driving forces (climate, social
development) and alternative policy strategies are used as a basis
to carry out numerical simulations of water-dependent sectors. The
results are analysed for both water availability and water quality,
as well as for some areas where availability and quality interconnect,
and are drawn together to give an integrated assessment of the overall
impact. This forms a basis for deriving long-term policy options
which may serve as guidelines for policy and economy in the region.
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Flyer GLOWA-Elbe II
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German / English
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