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Mediterranean desertification and land use impacts - Project 3 - Managing desertification

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To investigate the problems of managing land and water resources
use in regions suffering from desertification in a changing
social and economic as well as physical context. To establish
the conditions for and constraints on land and water management
both in a regional and physical context.


The project will involve a number of tasks:

An examination of cultural, historic and socio-economic
constraints on change by means of time series analysis, to
investigate trends in yield levels, interannual variability of
yields and crop yield correlations. This will give input to
policy decisions.

An evaluation of the regional economic dimensions of change in a
Community context. It will involve analysis of existing trends
in land-use management caused by developments and changes in
economy, technology and society. It will then look at
implications 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 both
the long term and the short term.

Development and evaluation of the implementation of measures for
desertification mitigation in the context of selected problems including land
management mapping, erosion mitigation through vegetation cover,
and the problems of waste disposal and chemical residues;

An investigation of past mitigation schemes on land and water
management programmes, in a specific regional context to produce
an assessment of the success or otherwise of these programmes on
the basis of achievements against cost.

Implementation of complex systems for water resources allocation.
The complex systems model developed in MEDALUS I will be expanded
and applied to the complex spatial evolution of water demands and
their interaction with water supply

The study of practical water resources scarcity mitigation
through catchment management. This work will include research on
the behaviour and destiny of micro--pollutants (especially
herbicides and pesticides) in the unsaturated zone and in
aquifers under seasonal and scarce recharge conditions, the
effects of salinisation in over--exploited ground water areas,
and the application of soft groundwater recharge in areas
undergoing desertification, especially in selected sites worked
on in MEDALUS I, and in relation to models of evolving plant
cover under both policy and climate-directed influences.

The project will provide specific case studies and general
approaches (i.e. systems modelling) to land and water management
and attempt to provide guide-lines for managing future
environmental changes in Mediterranean Europe.

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Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Wkład UE
Brak danych
Adres
Via Trentino 51
09100 Cagliari
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