Participatory evaluation of water management options for climate change adaptation in river basins

Anabel Sánchez Plaza, Annelies Broekman, Javier Retana Alumbreros, Adriana Bruggeman, Elias Giannakis, Sihem Jebari, Aleksandra Krivograd-Klemenčič, Steven Libbrecht, Manca Magjar, Nicolas Robert, Pieter Johannes Verkerk

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Climate and other human-induced changes will increase water scarcity in world areas such as in the Mediterranean. Adaptation principles need to be urgently incorporated into water management and stakeholder engagement needs to be strengthened at all steps of the management cycle. This study aimed to analyse and compare stakeholder-preferred water management options (WMOs) to face climate change related challenges and to foster adaptation in four Mediterranean river basins. The challenges and WMOs of the four river basins identified by stakeholders were analysed examining to what extent the WMOs tackled the identified challenges. The impact of the WMOs resulting from a participatory modelling method was included in a comparative analysis of the stakeholders' WMOs preferences. The results indicate the participatory approach that was applied allowed local priorities and real-world challenges to be defined with adequate detail as well as the definition of tailored responses. The participatory impact analysis provided an integrated view of the river basin as an interrelated system. The participatory evaluation of the WMOs was able to consider a wide range of elements and was able reflect the combined preferences of the stakeholders. Moreover, it allowed groups of basin actors with highly diverse profiles and concerns to further promote sets of these WMOs as input into decision making processes.
Idioma originalAnglès
RevistaEnvironments - MDPI
Volum8
Número9
DOIs
Estat de la publicacióPublicada - 2021

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