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Alp-Water-Scarce
Water Management Strategies against Water Scarcity in the Alps
- AS priority area: Competitiveness and Attractiveness
- Duration: 01/10/2008 - 31/10/2011
- Project webpage no longer accessible
Project Partners
- Lead partner: Université de Savoie, Institut de la Montagne (FR) Contact person: Nancy Westrelin, Tel.: +33 479 75 8470, nancy.westrelin[at]univ-savoie.fr
- Regional Government of Carinthia (A) Contact person: Iris Speiser, Tel.: +43 (0)5 0536 31571, iris.speiser[at]ktn.gv.at
- Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics (A) Contact person: Klaus Wagner, Tel.: +43 1 877 3651 7428, klaus.wagner[at]awi.bmlfuw.gv.at
- Government of the Province of Styria, Department of Water management and urban water management (A) Contact person: Gunther Suette, Tel.: +43 (0)316 877 3662, gunther.suette[at]stmk.gv.at
- Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Centre for Geoinformatics (A) Contact person: Hermann Klug, Tel.: +43 (0)662 8044 5261, hermann.klug[at]sbg.ac.at
- Federal Office for the Environment, Federal Department for the Environment, Transport, Energy an Communication (CH) Contact person: Ronald Kozel, Tel.: +41 (0)31 324 77 64, ronald.kozel[at]bafu.admin.ch
- Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (CH) Contact person: Christopher Robinson, Tel.: +41 (0)44 823 5317, robinson[at]eawag.ch
- Local Government of Savoy (FR) Contact person: Christian Mourembles, Tel.: +33 (0)4 79 96 75 29, christian.mourembles[at]cg73.fr
- Society of Alpine Economics of Upper Savoy (FR) Contact person: Sandrine Bottollier, Tel.: +33 4 50 88 37 74, sea74[at]echoalp.com
- Autonomous Province of Trento - Department for Territorial Planning and Environment (I) Contact person: Fabio Scalet, Tel.: +39 0461 493200, dip.urbambiente[at]provincia.tn.it
- Development Agency Gal Genovese (I) Contact person: Angela Rollando, Tel.: +39 0108683242, info[at]appenninogenovese.it
- Regional Agency for Prevention and Protection of the Environment of Veneto - Department for the Safety of Territory (I) Contact person: Giacomo Renzo Scussel, Tel.: +39 0437 098203, gscussel[at]arpa.veneto.it
- UNCEM Piemont Delegation (I) Contact person: Nuria Mignone, Tel.: +39 0348 5161554, uncem[at]provincia.torino.it
- Geological Survey of Slovenia (SI) Contact person: Mihael Brenčič, Tel.: +386 (0) 1 2809 788, mbrencic[at]geo-zs.si
- National Institute of Biology; Department for Freshwater and Terrestrial Ecosystems Research (SI) Contact person: Anton Brancelj, Tel.: 00 386 59232731, anton.brancelj[at]nib.si
- Slovene Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry, Institute of Agriculture and Forestry Maribor (SI) Contact person: Stanislava Klemencic-Kosi, Tel.: +386 (0) 2 228 49 54, stanka.klemencic[at]kmetijski-zavod.si
Project summary
“The main challenges of this project are to create local Early Warning Systems against Water Scarcity in the Alps based on sound and perennial monitoring and modeling and anchored strongly and actively within a Stakeholder Forum linked across comparative and contrasting regions across the Alps. The Early Warning System is based on the linkage and improvement of field monitoring and assemblage of qualitative and quantitative data derived from anthropogenic water use in selected pilot regions in France, Italy, Austria, Slovenia and Switzerland. The aims are to implement water management at the short term (annual) scale as well as the long term (future scenarios) scale based on modeling under climate change and anthropogenic scenarios. Future water shortages should be prognosed and prevented by innovative measures of mitigation and adaptation. Awareness raising and stakeholder interaction will form an important part of problem identification, participation in the project, dissemination of results and implementation of new approaches.” Source: Alp-Water-Scarce project summary
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Results
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Outputs
| Output | Category | Language(s) | Target group | Remark |
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| Handbook “Water Management in a Changing Environment” | Report | EN | Decision makers, Civil servants / administration | The handbook offers an overview of the main outputs of the project. In the first sections, a definition of ‘water scarcity’ and different stakeholder perspectives on the term are presented. An overview of water scarcity problems in different sectors and the legal aspects of water governance at different levels are then provided. In the last section, recommendations to address water scarcity are proposed. This “Case-Study-Based Recommendations for Water Managers and Policy Makers” is the critical and largest section of the handbook. |
| Recommandations for Water Resources Managers and Policy-makers | (Policy)Recommendations | EN, DE, FR, IT, SI | Decision makers, Civil servants / administration | Easy-to-read summary of the projects' recommendations for Water Managers and Policy-makers |
| A short Guideline on "Monitoring and Modelling of Mountain Water Resources" | Guidelines | EN | Civil servants / administration | Technical guidelines divided into three parts. The first part considers monitoring issues that arise in quantifying the meteorological, hydroecological and anthropogenic components of the water cycle. The second part deals with numerical hydrological modelling issues. The third part explains how monitoring and modelling efforts should be combined together. |
| Climatic scenarios guidelines | Guidelines | EN | Scientists | This methodological and technical guideline proposes a common methodology to calculate future climatic scenarios for Pilot Sites within the Alp-Water-Scarce project. |
| Summary of a stakeholders survey on the perception of water scarcity | policy oriented summary | EN, DE, FR, IT, SI | Decision makers, Civil servants / administration | In order to collect information on the perception of water scarcity a stakeholder questionnaire has been developed and translated into 5 different languages (EN, FR, DE, IT, SI). The analysis of 91 questionnaires collected by the Alp-Water-Scarce consortium identified the complexity of problems resulting from water scarcity at different levels. |
| Report on "Generalisation of drought effects on ecosystem goods and services over the Alps" | Report | EN | Scientists | The report concentrates on some of the most relevant ecosystem goods and services regarding agriculture, forestry, water resources and tourism. A list of ecosystem goods and services is presented, and the probability of future droughts in the Alps is shortly discussed. For each group of services, a review of worldwide trends is given, followed by a discussion of drought effects in Europe and especially in the Alps. Finally, an overview of adaptation options is given. |
Outcomes and Impacts
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