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  • To identify key areas of impact and vulnerability in GEO Societal Benefit Areas based on existing analysis and through dialogue with relevant stakeholders.
  • To provide in-depth analysis of vulnerability based on interactive models.
  • To identify policy responses and adaptation options focused on key vulnerabilities based on quantitative model results and consultations with stakeholders.
  • To assess sustainability based on criteria and indicators and the analysis of inter-linkages among key emerging pressures and vulnerabilities using modeling results and stakeholder validation.
 

This WP involves the analysis of the impacts of the climate, land use and demographic scenarios on river catchment processes, primarily water quality and quantity. Based on this analysis the impacts of all these changes will be assessed on selected Societal Benefit Areas in the present and the future. The emphasis will be on impacts on ecosystems, biodiversity, agriculture, health and energy sectors.
WP5 methodologies will be grounded in integrated environmental assessment (IEA) and the analysis of impacts in the context of the Driving force-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework, as applied in UNEP’s GEO-4 report (UNEP 2007) at the global scale and as subsequently translated into sub-global applications. In order to ensure the analysis reflects policy priorities and stakeholder perspectives, participatory methods in the form of stakeholder dialogues will be embedded throughout the process, from the identification of major impact areas to the mapping of impact pathways. Analysis of projected vulnerability will be synthesized based on the relevant results of WP3 and 4, including projected impacts through the analysis of thematic scenarios.
A key goal of WP5 is to build a solid analytic foundation for the identification of adaptation options at multiple scales, which will firmly connect the project to actual users of the information where real life positive impacts can be realized. Adaptation options will be developed at thematic, place based and at higher region-wide levels. The development of policy and management responses will build on the adaptive management and resilience school of thought. While it will respond to the challenges arising from climate change, it will go beyond that and reflect a more synthetic reality where impacts and adaptive responses emerge in the context of a wider range of interacting forces of local and global change that includes, but that is not limited to climate change (Leichenko and O’Brien 2006).

 

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D5.2 Baseline analysis of agri-environmental trends, impacts and vulnerabilities


D5.3 Integrated water resource sustainability and vulnerability assessment



D5.5 Crop yield model for Ukraine and Romania



D5.6 Assessment of the wind and solar energy potential, and improved policy for their promotion


D5.7 Report on impacts of water quality and quantity change on public health


D5.8 Synthesis of vulnerability and adaptation issues



D5.10 Illustrated pilot case studies for the Black Sea Catchment Disaster Early Warning System


D5.11 Report on the Biodiversity societal benefit area