Developing a collaborative platform for resilience to extreme hydrological events in Europe
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Project summary
The main goal of this project is to
provide the organizational and administrative framework that will support the
gathering and consultation work of a group of recognised experts from academic
research, public regulatory organisations and the business community with well
established experience and deep knowledge in the area of numerical modelling
and policy gap in water resources management. The focus of the consultation
work to be performed by the proposed group of experts will be:
- Assess the
impact, or lack of it thereof, of numerical models on management and policy
processes (especially models developed in EC funded projects including FP(s) 5
and 6);
- Development of a comprehensive research agenda to address the
aforementioned lack of uptake or effective use of research products to guide
sustainable development,
- Use the example of an eminent increase in the
frequency of extreme hydrological events i.e. floods and droughts in Europe as
a mega case study to analyse the problem of poor impact of models in
decision-making processes including policy formulation;
- Provide a platform of
social scientists and numerical modeller for water resources management to
propose better ways of profiting from a vast repertoire of tools, and models developed
by past EC funded projects;
- Development of a framework to use products from
past and ongoing EC funded projects addressing flooding to advise a process
expected to culminate in proposals towards the management and containment of
extreme hydrological events in Europe with a focus on droughts;
- Use
state-of-the-art techniques to record and study the project including its main actors as a built-in
evaluation process that documents and critically analyses successes and
difficulties with our chosen approach.
The project will narrow the disconnect
between numerical models and the policy domain using development of resilience
to extreme hydrological events as a backdrop. The project is undertaken within NMPI European Taskgroup.
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| Principal Investigator
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. rer.nat. András Bárdossy, University of Stuttgart, Institute of Hydraulic Engineering, Germany
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