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Kouvara K, Papatheodorou G, Kosmopoulou A, Giovos I, Charitou A, Filippides A, Kaberi H, Kalaitzi L, Kyrkitsos F, Koundouri P, Triantafyllou C, Gletsos M, Fakiris E, Geraga M. COVID-19-related litter pollution on Greek beaches and nearshore shallow water environments. Mar Pollut Bull 2022; 185:114250. [PMID: 36274560 PMCID: PMC9561433 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.114250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2022] [Revised: 10/07/2022] [Accepted: 10/09/2022] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in certain types of litter, many of which are expected to end up in the marine environment. The present study aimed to monitor the pandemic-related litter pollution along the Greek coastal environment. Overall, 59 beach and 83 underwater clean-ups were conducted. Litter was categorized as: PPE (face masks and gloves), COVID-19-related, single-use plastic (SUP) and takeaway items. PPE, dominated by face masks (86.21 %), accounted for 0.29 % of all litter. The average PPE density was 3.1 × 10-3 items m-2 and 2.59 items/ 100 m. COVID-19-related items represented 1.04 % of the total. Wet wipes showed higher densities (0.67 % of all litter) than in the pre-COVID era, while no increase in SUP and takeaway items was observed. Benthic PPE, dominated by gloves (83.95 %), represented 0.26 % of the total. The mean PPE density was 2.5 × 10-3 items m-2.
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- Konstantina Kouvara
- Laboratory of Marine Geology and Physical Oceanography, Department of Geology, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece
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- Laboratory of Marine Geology and Physical Oceanography, Department of Geology, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece.
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- iSea, Environmental Organization for the Preservation of the Aquatic Ecosystems, 54645 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- iSea, Environmental Organization for the Preservation of the Aquatic Ecosystems, 54645 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), 19013 Anavyssos, Greece
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- Ecological Recycling Society, Νon-profit Οrganization, 10432 Athens, Greece
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- Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business, 10434, Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature (HSPN), 10557 Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Marine Geology and Physical Oceanography, Department of Geology, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece
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- Laboratory of Marine Geology and Physical Oceanography, Department of Geology, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece
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Sachs JD, Karim SSA, Aknin L, Allen J, Brosbøl K, Colombo F, Barron GC, Espinosa MF, Gaspar V, Gaviria A, Haines A, Hotez PJ, Koundouri P, Bascuñán FL, Lee JK, Pate MA, Ramos G, Reddy KS, Serageldin I, Thwaites J, Vike-Freiberga V, Wang C, Were MK, Xue L, Bahadur C, Bottazzi ME, Bullen C, Laryea-Adjei G, Ben Amor Y, Karadag O, Lafortune G, Torres E, Barredo L, Bartels JGE, Joshi N, Hellard M, Huynh UK, Khandelwal S, Lazarus JV, Michie S. The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic. Lancet 2022; 400:1224-1280. [PMID: 36115368 PMCID: PMC9539542 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(22)01585-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 202] [Impact Index Per Article: 101.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2022] [Revised: 07/01/2022] [Accepted: 08/11/2022] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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- Jeffrey D Sachs
- Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States.
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- Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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- Health Division, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris, France
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- Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC, United States
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- Department of Public Health, Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece; Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark; European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Economics and Administration, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- National Academy of Medicine of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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- Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
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- National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China; National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- The Lancet COVID-19 Commission Regional Task Force: India, New Delhi, India
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- National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States
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- National Institute for Health Innovation, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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- Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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- United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, New York, NY, United States
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- United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, New York, NY, United States
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- Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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- United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, New York, NY, United States
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- Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centre for Behaviour Change, University College London, London, UK
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Koundouri P, Pittis N, Samartzis P, Englezos N, Papandreou A. Alternative Types of Ambiguity and their Effects on Climate Change Regulation. Open Res Eur 2022; 2:9. [PMID: 37645347 PMCID: PMC10445894 DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.14300.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/20/2021] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
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This paper focuses on different types of ambiguity that affect climate change regulation. In particular, we analyze the effects of the interaction among three types of agents, namely, the decision-maker (DM), the climate change experts, and the society, on the probabilistic properties of green-house gas (GHG) emissions and the formation of environmental policy. These effects are analyzed under two types of ambiguity: "deferential ambiguity" and "preferential ambiguity". Deferential ambiguity refers to the uncertainty that the experts face concerning whose forecast (scenario) the DM will defer to. Preferential ambiguity stems from the potential inability of the DM to correctly discern the society's preferences about the desired change of GHG emissions. This paper shows that the existence of deferential and preferential ambiguities have significant effects on GHG emissions regulation.
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- Phoebe Koundouri
- School of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece
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- Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece
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- Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece
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- School of Economics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Falk J, Attig-Bahar F, Colwell RR, Behera SK, El-Beltagy AS, von Braun J, Dasgupta P, Gleick PH, Kaneko R, Kennel CF, Koundouri P, Lee YT, Lovejoy TE, Luers A, Murray CA, Lal R, Serageldin I, Sokona Y, Takeuchi K, Taniguchi M, Watanabe C, Yasunari T. Addressing our planetary crisis: Consensus statement from the presenters and International Advisory Committee of the Regional Action on Climate Change (RACC) Symposium held in conjunction with the Kyoto-based Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum, 1 October 2021. Sustain Sci 2021; 17:5-7. [PMID: 34745367 PMCID: PMC8559913 DOI: 10.1007/s11625-021-01059-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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- Jim Falk
- Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
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- Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA
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- Application Laboratory, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan
- Department of Ocean Technology, Policy, and Environment, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- International Dryland Development Commission, Arid Land Agricultural Graduate Studies and Research Institute, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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- Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City, Vatican City
- Center for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn University, Bonn, Germany
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- Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security, Oakland, USA
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- School of Political Science and Economics, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California (UCSD), San Diego, USA
- Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- ReSEES Research Laboratory, Sustainable Development Unit and EIT Climate-KIC Hub, Athena Research Center, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA
- United Nations Foundation, Washington, DC, USA
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- Sustainability Science, Microsoft, Redmond, USA
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- Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
- University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
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- CFAES Rattan Lal Center for Carbon Management and Sequestration, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
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- Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Kanagawa, Japan
- Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI), The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- RIHN Center, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Kyoto, Japan
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- School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
- The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- RIHN Center, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Kyoto, Japan
- Kyoto Climate Change Adaptation Center (KCCAC), Kyoto, Japan
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Pittis N, Koundouri P, Samartzis P, Englezos N, Papandreou A. Ambiguity aversion, modern Bayesianism and small worlds. Open Res Eur 2021; 1:13. [PMID: 37645127 PMCID: PMC10446098 DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.13196.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/28/2021] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
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The central question of this paper is whether a rational agent under uncertainty can exhibit ambiguity aversion (AA). The answer to this question depends on the way the agent forms her probabilistic beliefs: classical Bayesianism (CB) vs modern Bayesianism (MB). We revisit Schmeidler's coin-based example and show that a rational MB agent operating in the context of a "small world", cannot exhibit AA. Hence we argue that the motivation of AA based on Schmeidler's coin-based and Ellsberg's classic urn-based examples, is poor, since they correspond to cases of "small worlds". We also argue that MB, not only avoids AA, but also proves to be normatively superior to CB because an MB agent (i) avoids logical inconsistencies akin to the relation between her subjective probability and objective chance, (ii) resolves the problem of "old evidence" and (iii) allows psychological detachment from actual evidence, hence avoiding the problem of "cognitive dissonance". As far as AA is concerned, we claim that it may be thought of as a (potential) property of large worlds, because in such worlds MB is likely to be infeasible.
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- Nikitas Pittis
- Department of Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece
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- School of Economics and ReSEES Laboratory, Athens University of Economics and Business; Sustainable Development Unit, Athena Research Center; World Academy of Arts and Science; UN SDSN-Europe, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece
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- Department of Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece
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- School of Economics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Bateman IJ, Dannenberg A, Elliott R, Finus M, Koundouri P, Millock K, Munro A, Robinson EJZ, Rondeau D, Schumacher I, Strobl E, Xepapadeas A. Editorial: Economics of the Environment in the Shadow of Coronavirus. Environ Resour Econ (Dordr) 2020; 76:519-523. [PMID: 32836844 PMCID: PMC7399587 DOI: 10.1007/s10640-020-00496-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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- Ian J. Bateman
- Land, Environment, Economics and Policy (LEEP) Institute, Department of Economics, University of Exeter Business School, Exeter, UK
- School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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- Department of Environmental and Behavioral Economics, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
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- Department of Economics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Department of Economics, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- School of Economics and ReSEES Laboratory, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece
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- The National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Economics, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC Canada
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- Department of Economics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- School of Economic Sciences, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece
- Department of Economics, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Koundouri P, Dannenberg A, Bateman IJ. EAERE Award for the Best Paper Published in Environmental and Resource Economics During 2019. Environ Resour Econ (Dordr) 2020; 76:17-19. [PMID: 32292240 PMCID: PMC7113907 DOI: 10.1007/s10640-020-00418-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/24/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We present details of the EAERE Award for the Best Paper Published in Environmental and Resource Economics During 2019 together with those Highly Commended papers published during this period.
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- Phoebe Koundouri
- School of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece
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- Environmental and Behavioral Economics, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
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- Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP), Environmental Economics, University of Exeter Business School, Exeter, UK
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Cremades R, Mitter H, Tudose NC, Sanchez-Plaza A, Graves A, Broekman A, Bender S, Giupponi C, Koundouri P, Bahri M, Cheval S, Cortekar J, Moreno Y, Melo O, Karner K, Ungurean C, Davidescu SO, Kropf B, Brouwer F, Marin M. Ten principles to integrate the water-energy-land nexus with climate services for co-producing local and regional integrated assessments. Sci Total Environ 2019; 693:133662. [PMID: 31635009 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2019] [Revised: 07/22/2019] [Accepted: 07/28/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The water-energy-land nexus requires long-sighted approaches that help avoid maladaptive pathways to ensure its promise to deliver insights and tools that improve policy-making. Climate services can form the foundation to avoid myopia in nexus studies by providing information about how climate change will alter the balance of nexus resources and the nature of their interactions. Nexus studies can help climate services by providing information about the implications of climate-informed decisions for other economic sectors across nexus resources. First-of-its-kind guidance is provided to combine nexus studies and climate services. The guidance consists of ten principles and a visual guide, which are discussed together with questions to compare diverse case studies and with examples to support the application of the principles.
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- Roger Cremades
- Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Chilehaus Eingang B, Fischertwiete 1, 20095 Hamburg, Germany.
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- Institute for Sustainable Economic Development, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Feistmantelstrasse 4, 1180 Vienna, Austria
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- National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry "Marin Dracea" (INCDS), Bulevardul Eroilor No. 128, Voluntari, 077190 Jud. Ilfov, Romania
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- CREAF, Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola de Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
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- Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire MK43 0AL, United Kingdom
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- CREAF, Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals, E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola de Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
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- Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Chilehaus Eingang B, Fischertwiete 1, 20095 Hamburg, Germany
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- Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Economics, Cannaregio 873, I-30121 Venice, Italy
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- Research laboratory on Socio-Economic and Environmental Sustainability (ReSEES), School of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business, 76 Patission Str., GR-10434 Athens, Greece
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- Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Chilehaus Eingang B, Fischertwiete 1, 20095 Hamburg, Germany
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- National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry "Marin Dracea" (INCDS), Bulevardul Eroilor No. 128, Voluntari, 077190 Jud. Ilfov, Romania; "Henri Coandă" Air Force Academy, 160 Mihai Viteazul Str., 500183 Brașov, Romania; National Meteorological Administration, 97 București-Ploiești Str., Sector 1, 013686 Bucharest, Romania
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- Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Chilehaus Eingang B, Fischertwiete 1, 20095 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain; Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain; ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural Economics of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Institute for Sustainable Economic Development, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Feistmantelstrasse 4, 1180 Vienna, Austria
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- National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry "Marin Dracea" (INCDS), Bulevardul Eroilor No. 128, Voluntari, 077190 Jud. Ilfov, Romania
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- National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry "Marin Dracea" (INCDS), Bulevardul Eroilor No. 128, Voluntari, 077190 Jud. Ilfov, Romania
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- Institute for Sustainable Economic Development, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Feistmantelstrasse 4, 1180 Vienna, Austria
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- Wageningen Research, PO Box 29703, 2502 LS The Hague, the Netherlands
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- National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry "Marin Dracea" (INCDS), Bulevardul Eroilor No. 128, Voluntari, 077190 Jud. Ilfov, Romania; Transilvania University of Brasov, B-dul Eroilor nr. 29, Brașov, Romania
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Apostolaki S, Koundouri P, Pittis N. Using a systemic approach to address the requirement for Integrated Water Resource Management within the Water Framework Directive. Sci Total Environ 2019; 679:70-79. [PMID: 31082604 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2018] [Revised: 05/06/2019] [Accepted: 05/06/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Sustainable management of water resources calls for integration of ideas and approaches and revolves around assessment of causal-effect relationships as tools towards defining informed mitigation options and planning. The current paper presents a new holistic approach developed within the Globaqua Coordination Project that combines indicator-based well-established and tested concepts towards developing informed Programmes of Measures and River basin management plans: a. The DPSIR framework that has been engaged as central instrument to address the Water Framework Directive requirements and the concepts embedded in the Integrated Water Resource Management; b. The Ecosystem Services Approach emphasizing on the links between ecosystem services, changes in ecosystems and human well-being, c. Scenario assessment for valuation of future conditions to ensure the sustainability in the use of water resources. The implementation of the new combined framework in two river basins, Ebro in Spain and Evrotas in Greece, stressed the need for revised options targeting elimination of water pollution, measures to ensure water supply that covers the demand even under conditions of climate change and increased water stress and the need for improved valuation of environmental and resource use costs.
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- Stella Apostolaki
- EIT Climate KIC Hub Greece, ATHENA Research and Innovation Center, Greece; International Center for Research on the Environment and the Economy (ICRE8), Greece; Department of Science and Mathematics, Deree - The American College of Greece, Greece.
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- School of Economics and ReSEES Laboratory, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece; EIT Climate KIC Hub Greece, ATHENA Research and Innovation Center, Greece; International Center for Research on the Environment and the Economy (ICRE8), Greece
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- Department of Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus, Greece
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Ker Rault PA, Koundouri P, Akinsete E, Ludwig R, Huber-Garcia V, Tsani S, Acuna V, Kalogianni E, Luttik J, Kok K, Skoulikidis N, Froebrich J. Down scaling of climate change scenarii to river basin level: A transdisciplinary methodology applied to Evrotas river basin, Greece. Sci Total Environ 2019; 660:1623-1632. [PMID: 30743953 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2018] [Revised: 12/20/2018] [Accepted: 12/24/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The Mediterranean region is anticipated to be (or, already is) one of the hot spots for climate change, where freshwater ecosystems are under threat from the effects of multiple stressors. Climate change is impacting natural resources and on the functioning of Ecosystem Services. The challenges about modelling climate change impact on water cycle in general and specifically on socio-economic dynamics of the society leads to an exponential amount of results that restrain interpretation and added value of forecasting at local level. One of the main challenges when dealing with climate change projections is the quantification of uncertainties. Modellers might have limited information or understanding from local river catchment management practices and from other disciplines with relevant insights on socio-economic and environmental complex relationship between biosphere and human based activities. Current General Circulation Models cannot fulfil the requirements of high spatial detail required for water management policy. This article reports an innovative transdisciplinary methodology to down scale Climate Change scenarii to river basin level with a special focus on the development of climate change narrative under SSP5-RCP8.5 combination called Myopic scenario and SSP1-RCP4.5 combination called Sustainable scenario. Local Stakeholder participative workshop in the Evrotas river basin provide perception of expected changes on water demand under to two developed scenario narratives.
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- ATHENA Research and Innovation Center, Athens Greece; Athens University of Economics and Business, School of Economics, ReSEES Laboratory, Athens Greece
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- ATHENA Research and Innovation Center, Athens Greece; Athens University of Economics and Business, School of Economics, ReSEES Laboratory, Athens Greece
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- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Luisenstr. 37, 80333 Munich, Germany
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- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Luisenstr. 37, 80333 Munich, Germany
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- ATHENA Research and Innovation Center, Athens Greece; Athens University of Economics and Business, School of Economics, ReSEES Laboratory, Athens Greece
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- Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Girona, Spain
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- Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 46.7 km Athinon - Souniou Av., 190 13, P.O. Box 712, Anavissos, Greece
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- Wageningen Environmental Research, 6708 PB Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 46.7 km Athinon - Souniou Av., 190 13, P.O. Box 712, Anavissos, Greece
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- Wageningen Environmental Research, 6708 PB Wageningen, Netherlands
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Datry T, Singer G, Sauquet E, Jorda-Capdevila D, Von Schiller D, Stubbington R, Magand C, Pařil P, Miliša M, Acuña V, Alves MH, Augeard B, Brunke M, Cid N, Csabai Z, England J, Froebrich J, Koundouri P, Lamouroux N, Martí E, Morais M, Munné A, Mutz M, Pesic V, Previšić A, Reynaud A, Robinson C, Sadler J, Skoulikidis N, Terrier B, Tockner K, Vesely D, Zoppini A. Science and Management of Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams (SMIRES). RIO 2017. [DOI: 10.3897/rio.3.e21774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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More than half of the global river network is composed of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams (IRES), which are expanding in response to climate change and increasing water demands. After years of obscurity, the science of IRES has bloomed recently and it is being recognised that IRES support a unique and high biodiversity, provide essential ecosystem services and are functionally part of river networks and groundwater systems. However, they still lack protective and adequate management, thereby jeopardizing water resources at the global scale. This Action brings together hydrologists, biogeochemists, ecologists, modellers, environmental economists, social researchers and stakeholders from 14 different countries to develop a research network for synthesising the fragmented, recent knowledge on IRES, improving our understanding of IRES and translating this into a science-based, sustainable management of river networks. Deliverables will be provided through i) research workshops synthesising and addressing key challenges in IRES science, supporting research exchange and educating young researchers, and ii) researcher-stakeholder workshops translating improved knowledge into tangible tools and guidelines for protecting IRES and raising awareness of their importance and value in societal and decision-maker spheres. This Action is organized within six Working Groups to address: (i) the occurrence, distribution and hydrological trends of IRES; (ii) the effects of flow alterations on IRES functions and services; (iii) the interaction of aquatic and terrestrial biogeochemical processes at catchment scale; (iv) the biomonitoring of the ecological status of IRES; (v) synergies in IRES research at the European scale, data assemblage and sharing; (vi) IRES management and advocacy training.
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Pistocchi A, Udias A, Grizzetti B, Gelati E, Koundouri P, Ludwig R, Papandreou A, Souliotis I. An integrated assessment framework for the analysis of multiple pressures in aquatic ecosystems and the appraisal of management options. Sci Total Environ 2017; 575:1477-1488. [PMID: 28346991 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2016] [Revised: 10/03/2016] [Accepted: 10/03/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The contribution illustrates an integrated assessment framework aimed at evaluating the relationships between multiple pressures and water body status for the purposes of river basin management. The framework includes the following steps. (1) Understanding how the different pressures affect the status of water bodies. This entails the characterization of biophysical state variables and the definition of a causal relationship between pressures and status. Therefore this step involves interaction between experts bearing ecological understanding and experts providing models to represent the effect of pressures. (2) Identifying the relevant pressures to be addressed through appropriate measures to improve the status of water bodies. (3) Evaluating reduction targets for the relevant pressures identified in a river basin, by weighting the effort associated to reducing individual pressures and the potential benefits in terms of water body status. (4) Designing management measures through a creative process and political discussion of alternative options, balancing costs, benefits and effectiveness based on engineering and economic analysis. (5) Simulating scenarios of implementation of a programme of measures in order to check their effectiveness and robustness against climate and land use change. We discuss the five steps of the assessment framework, and particularly the interaction between science and policy at the different stages. We review the assessment tools required at each step and, for setting optimal pressure reduction targets (step 3), we propose and illustrate a simplified multicriteria approach based on semi-quantitative assessment, which produces frontiers of optimal trade-offs between effort spent on measures, and achievements.
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- A Pistocchi
- European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre, Directorate D - Sustainable Resources, Unit D.02 Water and Marine Resources, via E.Fermi, 2749-21027 Ispra (VA), Italy.
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- European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre, Directorate D - Sustainable Resources, Unit D.02 Water and Marine Resources, via E.Fermi, 2749-21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
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- European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre, Directorate D - Sustainable Resources, Unit D.02 Water and Marine Resources, via E.Fermi, 2749-21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
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- European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre, Directorate D - Sustainable Resources, Unit D.02 Water and Marine Resources, via E.Fermi, 2749-21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
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- School of Economics, Athens University of Economic and Business (www.aueb.gr); Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics; International Center for Research on the Environment and the Economy, ICRE8, Greece
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- Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany
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- International Centre for Research on the Environment and the Economy (ICRE8), and Athena Research and Innovation Centre, Athens, Greece
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- International Centre for Research on the Environment and the Economy (ICRE8), and Athena Research and Innovation Centre, Athens, Greece
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González Dávila O, Koundouri P, Pantelidis T, Papandreou A. Do agents' characteristics affect their valuation of 'common pool' resources? A full-preference ranking analysis for the value of sustainable river basin management. Sci Total Environ 2017; 575:1462-1469. [PMID: 27793350 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2016] [Revised: 09/30/2016] [Accepted: 10/01/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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In this paper we develop a full-preference ranking Choice Experiment (CE) designed to investigate how respondents evaluate a set of proposed improvements towards sustainable river basin management, as per the prescriptions of the European Union-Water Framework Directive (2000). The CE is applied in the Asopos River Basin (ARB) in Greece. Our interest is to test whether residency in the river basin, or otherwise, affects the preferences of the relevant agents. We first estimate a rank-ordered logistic regression based on a full set of choices in order to calculate the willingness to pay (WTP) of respondents for each one of the three attributes considered in the CE (i.e., environmental conditions, impact on the local economy and changes in the potential uses of water). The model is initially estimated for the full sample and then re-estimated twice for two sub-samples: the first one only includes the residents of Athens and the second only includes the residents of Asopos. Afterwards, we examine the effect of various demographic and socio-economic factors (such as income, gender, age, employment and education) on the estimates of our model in order to reveal any differences among respondents with different characteristics, mainly focusing on whether they reside or have personal experience of the RB under valuation. Thus, our analysis simultaneously provides a robustness check on previous findings in the literature and additional information about how various demographic and socio-economic characteristics affect the evaluation of the selected attributes.
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- Osiel González Dávila
- University of Monterrey, Mexico; SOAS, University of London, UK; ICRE8: International Center for Research on the Environment and the Economy, Greece.
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- ICRE8: International Center for Research on the Environment and the Economy, Greece; Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece; London School of Economics, UK.
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- ICRE8: International Center for Research on the Environment and the Economy, Greece; University of Macedonia, Greece.
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- ICRE8: International Center for Research on the Environment and the Economy, Greece; University of Athens, Greece.
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Koundouri P, Ker Rault P, Pergamalis V, Skianis V, Souliotis I. Development of an integrated methodology for the sustainable environmental and socio-economic management of river ecosystems. Sci Total Environ 2016; 540:90-100. [PMID: 26277441 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.07.082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2015] [Revised: 06/26/2015] [Accepted: 07/17/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The development of the Water Framework Directive aimed to establish an integrated framework of water management at European level. This framework revolves around inland surface waters, transitional waters, coastal waters and ground waters. In the process of achieving the environment and ecological objectives set from the Directive, the role of economics is put in the core of the water management. An important feature of the Directive is the recovery of total economic cost of water services by all users. The total cost of water services can be disaggregated into environmental, financial and resource costs. Another important aspect of the directive is the identification of major drivers and pressures in each River Basin District. We describe a methodology that is aiming to achieve sustainable and environmental and socioeconomic management of freshwater ecosystem services. The Ecosystem Services Approach is in the core of the suggested methodology for the implementation of a more sustainable and efficient water management. This approach consists of the following three steps: (i) socio-economic characterization of the River Basin area, (ii) assessment of the current recovery of water use cost, and (iii) identification and suggestion of appropriate programs of measures for sustainable water management over space and time. This methodology is consistent with a) the economic principles adopted explicitly by the Water Framework Directive (WFD), b) the three-step WFD implementation approach adopted in the WATECO document, c) the Ecosystem Services Approach to valuing freshwater goods and services to humans. Furthermore, we analyze how the effects of multiple stressors and socio-economic development can be quantified in the context of freshwater resources management. We also attempt to estimate the value of four ecosystem services using the benefit transfer approach for the Anglian River Basin, which showed the significance of such services.
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- P Koundouri
- Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece; London School of Economics, UK; International Centre for Researcher on the Environment and the Economy (ICRE8), Greece.
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- Alterra Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands
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- International Centre for Researcher on the Environment and the Economy (ICRE8), Greece
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- International Centre for Researcher on the Environment and the Economy (ICRE8), Greece
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- Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece; International Centre for Researcher on the Environment and the Economy (ICRE8), Greece
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Navarro-Ortega A, Acuña V, Bellin A, Burek P, Cassiani G, Choukr-Allah R, Dolédec S, Elosegi A, Ferrari F, Ginebreda A, Grathwohl P, Jones C, Rault PK, Kok K, Koundouri P, Ludwig RP, Merz R, Milacic R, Muñoz I, Nikulin G, Paniconi C, Paunović M, Petrovic M, Sabater L, Sabaterb S, Skoulikidis NT, Slob A, Teutsch G, Voulvoulis N, Barceló D. Managing the effects of multiple stressors on aquatic ecosystems under water scarcity. The GLOBAQUA project. Sci Total Environ 2015; 503-504:3-9. [PMID: 25005236 PMCID: PMC4236898 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.06.081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2014] [Revised: 06/04/2014] [Accepted: 06/19/2014] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Water scarcity is a serious environmental problem in many European regions, and will likely increase in the near future as a consequence of increased abstraction and climate change. Water scarcity exacerbates the effects of multiple stressors, and thus results in decreased water quality. It impacts river ecosystems, threatens the services they provide, and it will force managers and policy-makers to change their current practices. The EU-FP7 project GLOBAQUA aims at identifying the prevalence, interaction and linkages between stressors, and to assess their effects on the chemical and ecological status of freshwater ecosystems in order to improve water management practice and policies. GLOBAQUA assembles a multidisciplinary team of 21 European plus 2 non-European scientific institutions, as well as water authorities and river basin managers. The project includes experts in hydrology, chemistry, biology, geomorphology, modelling, socio-economics, governance science, knowledge brokerage, and policy advocacy. GLOBAQUA studies six river basins (Ebro, Adige, Sava, Evrotas, Anglian and Souss Massa) affected by water scarcity, and aims to answer the following questions: how does water scarcity interact with other existing stressors in the study river basins? How will these interactions change according to the different scenarios of future global change? Which will be the foreseeable consequences for river ecosystems? How will these in turn affect the services the ecosystems provide? How should management and policies be adapted to minimise the ecological, economic and societal consequences? These questions will be approached by combining data-mining, field- and laboratory-based research, and modelling. Here, we outline the general structure of the project and the activities to be conducted within the fourteen work-packages of GLOBAQUA.
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- Alícia Navarro-Ortega
- Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), Barcelona Spain.
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- Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Girona, Spain
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- Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento (UNITN), Trento, Italy
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- Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES-JRC), Ispra, Italy
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- Department of Geosciences, University of Padova (UNIPD), Padova, Italy
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain
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- Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), Barcelona Spain
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- Center for Applied Geosciences, Tuebingen University (EKUT), Tuebingen, Germany
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- Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Rossby Centre (SMHI), Norrköping, Sweden
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- Climate Change and Adaptive Land and Water Management Team, Wageningen University and Research Centre (ALTERRA), Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Wageningen University (WU), Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Research and Innovation Centre in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies (ATHENA), Athens, Greece; Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece; London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Geography, Faculty of Geosciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, (LMU), München, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Jožef Stefan Institute, (JSI), Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Ecology, University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain
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- Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Rossby Centre (SMHI), Norrköping, Sweden
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- Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Quebec City, Canada
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- University of Belgrade, Institute for Biological Research Siniša Stanković (IBISS), Belgrade, Serbia
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- Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Girona, Spain; Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), Barcelona Spain
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- Institute of Aquatic Ecology, University of Girona, Girona, Spain
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- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biological Resources & Inland Waters (HCMR), Athens, Greece
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- Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Delft, The Netherlands
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- Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany
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- The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (IMPERIAL), London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), Barcelona Spain; Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Girona, Spain
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Antoniou F, Koundouri P, Tsakiris N. Information sharing and environmental policies. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2010; 7:3561-78. [PMID: 21139849 PMCID: PMC2996180 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph7103561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2010] [Revised: 09/25/2010] [Accepted: 09/29/2010] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Based on the assumption that in a standard eco-dumping model governments are uncertain about future product demand and allowing governments to obtain information from firms, we examine governments’ and firms’ incentives to share information. We show that when governments regulate polluting firms through emission standards, then governments and firms will reach an agreement concerning information sharing. The opposite holds when governments regulate pollution through emission taxes.
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- Fabio Antoniou
- Department of Economics, University of Cyprus, University Campus, Nicosia 1678, Cyprus; E-Mail:
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- Department of Economics, University of Cyprus, University Campus, Nicosia 1678, Cyprus; E-Mail:
- Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: ; Tel.: +30-210-8203455; Fax: + 30-210-8214122
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- Department of Economics, University of Ioannina, University Campus, Ioannina 451 10, Greece; E-Mail:
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Birol E, Karousakis K, Koundouri P. Using economic valuation techniques to inform water resources management: a survey and critical appraisal of available techniques and an application. Sci Total Environ 2006; 365:105-22. [PMID: 16647102 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.02.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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The need for economic analysis for the design and implementation of efficient water resources management policies is well documented in the economics literature. This need is also emphasised in the European Union's recent Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC), and is relevant to the objectives of Euro-limpacs, an EU funded project which inter alia, aims to provide a decision-support system for valuing the effects of future global change on Europe's freshwater ecosystems. The purpose of this paper is to define the role of economic valuation techniques in assisting in the design of efficient, equitable and sustainable policies for water resources management in the face of environmental problems such as pollution, intensive land use in agriculture and climate change. The paper begins with a discussion of the conceptual economic framework that can be used to inform water policy-making. An inventory of the available economic valuation methods is presented and the scope and suitability of each for studying various aspects of water resources are critically discussed. Recent studies that apply these methods to water resources are reviewed. Finally, an application of one of the economic valuation methods, namely the contingent valuation method, is presented using a case study of the Cheimaditida wetland in Greece.
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- Ekin Birol
- Department of Land Economics and Homerton College, University of Cambridge, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2PH, UK.
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