Description du projet
Faire revivre les éponges naturelles pour renforcer la résilience climatique
L’accumulation des défis climatiques est responsable du déclin rapide de la capacité des sols, des eaux souterraines et des eaux de surface à atténuer les événements hydrologiques extrêmes. Dans ce contexte, le projet SpongeScapes, financé par l’UE, entend regrouper, étendre et diffuser des connaissances scientifiques, pour initier des paysages résilients au climat grâce à des stratégies innovantes basées sur les éponges et à l’engagement collaboratif des parties prenantes. Plus précisément, le projet examinera et démontrera des solutions dans 140 cas existants et approfondira la compréhension de X études de cas individuelles. Ces connaissances seront transposées à plus grande échelle grâce à des «stratégies éponges» co-conçues à l’échelle du paysage, impliquant diverses parties prenantes. En fournissant des évaluations réalistes des stratégies, SpongeScapes fournit aux parties prenantes les outils nécessaires pour cartographier les opportunités et améliorer la fonction d’éponge des sols.
Objectif
SpongeScapes aims to consolidate, expand and disseminate scientific knowledge to improve the sponge function of soil, groundwater and surface water systems to accelerate the appropriation by all stakeholders. SpongeScapes will contribute to enhancing climate resilience against hydrological extremes at landscape scale: We will review and demonstrate the effectiveness of solutions in 140 existing cases, further detail process understanding in X individual case studies, and upscale this knowledge together with stakeholders by co-designing sponge strategies on landscape scale. We bring individual solutions and strategies for upscaling closer to the market by providing realistic evaluations of their effectiveness under different hydrometeorological extreme events in current conditions and future scenarios. We provide stakeholders with methods to map opportunities and self-assess the potential for increasing sponge functioning of groundwater, soils and surface water systems within the local context, taking climate, geology, topography, soil characteristics and land-use into account. The wide variety of sponge measures and strategies provided by the X case studies enables assessments of their primary functioning, co-benefits and potential trade-offs, and suitable governance and policy environments for implementation. Using validation data from case studies, SpongeScapes improves state-of-the-art, open source (geo-)hydrological modelling tools and enhances the quantification of sponge strategy impact assessments linking detailed process understanding to landscape scale evaluations. In the case studies we will collaborate with a various public and private stakeholders directly impacted by, or involved in, changes relating ot improving sponge functioning at the landscape scale. Stakteholders include local decision-makers and community groups, who are directly impacted by changes related to sponge functioning on landscape scale.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologylandscape ecology
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyplanetary sciencesplanetary geology
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencessustainability sciences
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrologyhydrometeorology
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeology
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinateur
2629 HV Delft
Pays-Bas