GLOWA Elbe III 2007 - 2010 - Impact of global change on the water cycle in the Elbe region --

Collaborative Project

Project code: 01 LW 0603 A2
Contract period: 01.01.2007 - 31.12.2010
Coordinating institution: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Target of the BMBF GLOWA research program is to develop science based proposals for ensuring the availability, quality and distribution of water resources. For the third phase the GLOWA-program is oriented to 'help decision makers in the catchment areas to examine and assess the impact of various decisions . These systems should be designed so that they are transferable to other comparable river basins'(BMBF 2005). Building on the programme by the consortium GLOWA-Elbe for the final third research phase, the following objectives are pursued: * Provision and dissemination of the instruments and results of the investigation GLOWA-alliance (to adjust the water management in the Elbe region to the challenges of global change) to the practice; for this purpose substantive, technical and organizational requirements are to be created, and * Demonstration of the developed instruments in policy-use cases for the whole Elbe region.

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Collaborative Projects

Project I (Integration and coordination, project management, knowledge transfer)

Leading institution: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Project II (Regionalization)

Leading institution: Institute for Landscape and Environmental Planning

Research projects

GLOWA Elbe III - Subproject 5: Socio-economic analysis of the water management

Project III (Water availability)

Research projects

GLOWA Elbe III - Subproject 7: Use case \'Integrated Low water and flood management\' - memory management and use of groundwater

Project IV (Water quality)

Leading institution: Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries

Research projects

GLOWA Elbe III - Subproject 8: Development of a tool for simulation of management options for improving water quality in the Elbe river system

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