Main problems addressed by the best practice
The mitigation of water stress at regional scale depends not just on technological innovations, but also on the development of new integrated water management tools and decision-making practices.
Specify the objectives of the best practice
Development of new integrated water management tools and decision-making practices, in order to achive mitigation of water stress impacts. In this line, AquaStress is an EU funded integrated project (IP) contract n°511231-2 - 6th Eu Framework Programme for RTD (http://www.cordis.lu) - deliverates interdisciplinary methodologies enabling actors at different levels of involvement and at different stages of the planning process to mitigate water stress problems.
|Scientific innovations on the diagnosis and characterisation of sources and causes of water stress;
|Scientific innovations on the assessment of the effectiveness of water stress management measures and development of new tailored options. Development of a participatory process to implement solutions tailored to environmental, cultural, economic and institutional settings.
|Development and dissemination of guidelines, protocols, and policies;
