Proiecte
SosWATER: Water Resources System Safe Operating Space in a Changing Climate and Society
Acronim: SosWATER
| Responsabil: | Dr. Sabin Rotaru, CSIII |
| Coordonator: | Internationales Institut für Angewandte Systemanalyse (IIASA), Austria |
| Beneficiar: | GeoEcoMar |
| Finanțator: | European Commission |
| Schema de finanțare: | Horizon Europe |
| Durata: | 48 months |
| Data începerii: | 01.10.2022 |
| Data finalizării: | 30.09.2026 |
SosWATER: Water Resources System Safe Operating Space in a Changing Climate and Society
Acronim: SosWATER
SOS-Water is a multi-disciplinary project that aims to create the foundation for a holistic and participatory assessment framework of the SOS for the entire water resources system, accounting concurrently for all relevant water dimensions across multiple sectors and spatial scales under the influence of socio-economic, policy, technological, and climatic changes. This framework will help to operationalise and downscale the global freshwater SOS to the continental and river basin levels and to ultimately streamline water planning and management at local to regional levels and beyond such that the allocation of water among societies, economies, and ecosystems will be economically efficient, socially fair, and resilient to shocks.
- To close the gap between theory and practice of the water system Safe Operating Space (SOS). SOS-Water aims to link water modelling tools with local water values (e.g., food and energy production, drinking water supply, biodiversity conservation), directly informing the identification of water system indicators, the monitoring process, and scenarios with stakeholder knowledge and preferences.
- To model the water system SOS. SOS-Water aims to advance water system models (WSMs ) needed to assess the climate and human impacts on water resources and to establish much-needed links between WSMs and impact models (IMs)to create an integrated modelling system (IMS).
- To benchmark the modelling system. SOS-Water aims to capitalize on available monitoring techniques and data to identify discrepancies between available environmental information services and information needs for water system SOS assessments, to develop several innovative approaches to address these discrepancies, and to infer, from these assessments, how critical shifts can be identified using Earth Observation (EO).
- To understand the boundaries of the water system SOS. SOS-Water aims to explore the spatiotemporal space, parameters, and information sources covered by state-of-the-art water indicators; to co-design innovative indicators that cover the gaps identified; and to build a system of indicators and meta-indicators to improve assessments of water resources.
- To define the water system SOS. SOS-Water aims to develop, both methodologically and practically, and through application to the different case studies and beyond, the concept of the SOS as a multi-dimensional space of policies and water management pathways evaluated across a broad set of scenarios by means of the indicators identified.
Parteneri:
Internationales Institut für Angewandte Systemanalyse - IIASA (Austria), Universiteit Utrecht - UU (Olanda), Universitat Politècnica de València - UPV (Spania), Politecnico di Milano – POLIMI (Italia), Forschungsverbund Berlin EV – IGB (Germania), Eidgenoessische Anstalt Fuer Wasserversorgung Abwasserreinigung und Gewaesserchutz - EAWAG (Elvetia), FutureWater SL - FW (Spania), Institutul Național de Cercetare-Dezvoltare pentru Geologie și Geoecologie Marină - GeoEcoMar (România), Southern Institute for Water Resources Planning - SIWRP (Vietnam), Eutema Research Services GMBH - EUTEMA-RS (Austria)