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Zaragoza luxury hotels According to its main focus, this research project addresses the specific programme "Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development", sub-programme “Environment and Sustainable Development”, Key Action 1 “Sustainable Management and Quality of Water”, priority 1.1.3 “Operational management schemes and decision support systems”.
The main objective of this research is the development of an operative, integrated and comprehensive Decision Support System for management of water resource systems in transboundary regions and thus perfectly fits the objectives under RTD Priority 1.1.3. It will contribute importantly to the sustainable development of these regions. Five pilot sites encompassing different climatic, topographic, environmental and socio-economic conditions will be studied thus allowing the development of a DSS able to cope with the complexity of the water resources systems and the uncertainty of decision making.
The DSS system developed in this project will contribute to help protecting the quality of water in EU by reducing the threats posed by continuously evolving economic, social and cultural pressures on freshwater resources. It will be a valuable tool to assist in the implementation of the Water Framework Directive.
By focusing on the problems arising in catchments across border areas, the project will also contribute to increase the political and social cohesion of the EU since the application of the DSS system will require the collaboration of stakeholders and general public of both sides of the frontier to solve common problems in the best way for all.
Border areas are special regions in almost every country with,
• less information,
• worse social/economical situation,
• low interests for management authorities,
• infrastructure disadvantages.
Combination of the countries on both sides of the border moves the disadvantaged regions to the centre of interest, which as a result could strengthen their position.
Water has a strategic value for economic, environmental and social point of view. This work is dedicated to a better use of the Earth in general and of water in particular. Results of this work must permit to predict the influences on water (in quantity and quality) with various landscape-use scenarios in order to give a preference for the choices in land planning which are compatible with a sustainable development of the trans-boundary regions.
The choice has been made of working on very different regions of Europe in order to have a very general model, which could be applied to other areas, located or not in Europe. Various simulations will take place in this work in order to test the sensitivity of the studied trans-boundary regions to different modifications (demographic, industrial, agricultural). Climatic changes are not the topic of the work but can be studied with different hypotheses.
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