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

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

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.

• Language: English
• Keywords: adaptation, climate change, stakeholder engagement, river basin, water management
• Work type: Scientific work
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FGG - Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Author Accepted Manuscript
• Submitted for review: 31.07.2021
• Article acceptance date: 08.09.2021
• Publication date: 10.09.2021
• Publisher: MDPI
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: [18] str.
• Numbering: Vol. 8, iss. 9
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-131007
• UDC: 502/504:556
• ISSN on article: 2076-3298
• DOI: 10.3390/environments8090093
• COBISS.SI-ID: 76535811
• Publication date in RUL: 21.09.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Environments
• Shortened title: Environments
• Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute - MDPI
• ISSN: 2076-3298
• COBISS.SI-ID: 524156441

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 31.07.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: prilagajanje, klimatske spremembe, vključevanje deležnikov, porečje, upravljanje voda

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: FP7
• Project number: 612385
• Name: Making society an active participant in water adaptation to global change
• Acronym: BEWATER