Climate & river basin management symposium 2011

The symposium aims to be a forum in the context of which exchanges between policy-makers, stakeholders, and scientists will take place, on issues that are closely related to the implementation of EU water policies. A particular emphasis is on the impacts of climate change within the context of other multiple stressors such as agriculture and eutrophication.

Themes

-Integrated modelling as a part of river basin and groundwater management
- Using Water Framework Directive (WFD) for mitigation of climate effects
- The influence of climate change scenarios on the processes of WFD implementation
- Research on groundwater and dependent ecosystems for Groundwater Directive (GWD)
- Climate change effects on hydrology and water availability
- Land use and climate change impacts on groundwater and dependent ecosystems
- Methodology on climate change scenarios and land use in European case studies
- Interactions between climate, hydrology and ecosystems
- Assessing land use and climate effects on water quality and water security
- Institutional issues in climate integration in river basin planning
- Socio-economic analysis for assessment and adaptation to climate change
- Participatory methods for integrated and adaptive water resources management