Objectif To investigate the problems of managing land and water resourcesuse in regions suffering from desertification in a changingsocial and economic as well as physical context. To establishthe conditions for and constraints on land and water managementboth in a regional and physical context.The project will involve a number of tasks:An examination of cultural, historic and socio-economicconstraints on change by means of time series analysis, toinvestigate trends in yield levels, interannual variability ofyields and crop yield correlations. This will give input topolicy decisions.An evaluation of the regional economic dimensions of change in aCommunity context. It will involve analysis of existing trendsin land-use management caused by developments and changes ineconomy, technology and society. It will then look atimplications for changes in water use caused by land-use changes,and the ways of preventing increasing land abandonment.Proposals will be made for combating desertification over boththe long term and the short term.Development and evaluation of the implementation of measures fordesertification mitigation in the context of selected problems including landmanagement mapping, erosion mitigation through vegetation cover,and the problems of waste disposal and chemical residues;An investigation of past mitigation schemes on land and watermanagement programmes, in a specific regional context to producean assessment of the success or otherwise of these programmes onthe basis of achievements against cost.Implementation of complex systems for water resources allocation.The complex systems model developed in MEDALUS I will be expandedand applied to the complex spatial evolution of water demands andtheir interaction with water supplyThe study of practical water resources scarcity mitigationthrough catchment management. This work will include research onthe behaviour and destiny of micro--pollutants (especiallyherbicides and pesticides) in the unsaturated zone and inaquifers under seasonal and scarce recharge conditions, theeffects of salinisation in over--exploited ground water areas,and the application of soft groundwater recharge in areasundergoing desertification, especially in selected sites workedon in MEDALUS I, and in relation to models of evolving plantcover under both policy and climate-directed influences.The project will provide specific case studies and generalapproaches (i.e. systems modelling) to land and water managementand attempt to provide guide-lines for managing futureenvironmental changes in Mediterranean Europe. Champ scientifique engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementnatural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrologyagricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagricultureengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringnatural resources managementwater managementnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssimulation software Programme(s) FP3-ENV 1C - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of the environment, 1990-1994 Thème(s) 0403 - Desertification in the Mediterranean area Appel à propositions Data not available Régime de financement CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinateur Università degli Studi di Cagliari Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Via Trentino 51 09100 Cagliari Italie Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée Participants (5) Trier par ordre alphabétique Trier par contribution de l’UE Tout développer Tout réduire Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières France Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Avenue Claude Guillemin 3 45060 ORLEANS Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY Royaume-Uni Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Silsoe Campus MK45 4DT SILSOE,BEDFORD Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée Foundation for Sustainable Development Pays-Bas Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse 18,Diedenweg 6700 HB Wageningen Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN Grèce Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse 17,Karantoni 17 81100 MYTILINI Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée University of Cambridge Royaume-Uni Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Downing Place CB2 3EN Cambridge Voir sur la carte Liens Site web Opens in new window Coût total Aucune donnée