Objective
Agricultural intensification may be constrained by limited water resources and increased environmental pollution of soils and waters in the Mediterranean region. In particular irrigated agriculture may induce negative impacts on the quantity and quality of natural resources such as land degradation by salinization and sodification ("on-site" impacts) and increased salt and nitrate loads in irrigation return flows (IRF) and receiving water bodies ("off-site" impacts). An environment-integrated management of these constrained water and soil resources is essential. Thus, the EU Water Framework Directive should implement water-pollution regulatory standards and policies regulating the discharge and quality of IRF. The aim of this project is to provide scientific , technical and socio-economic information on salt and Nitrogen contamination, and on pollution control measures in Medit. irrigated agriculture. The project addresses the INCO-MPC call in activities B.1.1 (Comprehensive water policy and integrated plannin g) and, particularly, B.1.2 (Improving the water consumption efficiency and effectiveness by users and uses). Seven research partners from 6 different countries (Algeria, Morocco, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey and the United Kingdom) will participate for the four years of the project. The main activities of the project are: 1) input-output irrigation-district mass balances and assessment of salt and nitrogen pollution effects of present agricultural management 2) model simulation studies analysing best management strategies for pollution control 3) evaluation of these strategies in selected pilot field trials (4) socio-economic analysis of present agricultural management and of source-sink pollution control management alternatives, and 5) dissemination of results to water users and policy makers. Feedback with project end-users will take place via the participation of nine stakeholders, thus ensuring that all relevant issues are properly addressed.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- social sciences political sciences political policies public policies
- engineering and technology civil engineering water engineering irrigation
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences hydrology
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences pollution
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture
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Call for proposal
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FP6-2003-INCO-MPC-2
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Coordinator
ZARAGOZA
Spain
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