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GLOWA Elbe II 2004 - 2007 - Global Change Impacts on the Water Cycle in the Elbe River Basin - Risks and Options
Collaborative Project
Project code:
01LW0304A
Contract period:
01.01.2004
- 31.12.2007
Coordinating institution:
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
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.
Collaborative Projects
Project I (Integration and Coordination)
Leading institution:
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Project II (Regionalisation of Global Change)
Leading institution:
Institute for Landscape and Environmental Planning
Research projects
Project III (Area of conflict - Surface Water Availability )
Research projects
Project IV (Area of conflict - Surface Water Quality)
Leading institution:
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
Research projects
- GLOWA Elbe II - Subproject 2: regionalisation of socio-economic development paths / cost-effectiveness analysis of strategies to reduce nutrient entries / economy of land use in wetlands
- GLOWA Elbe II - Project 8: Effects of Global Change on nutrients and pollutants and chemical restraint in the Elbe region and the ecological status of surface waters
Project V (Cross conflict field - Scenario Analysis)
Leading institution:
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
