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Event 1st SCARCE Annual Conference: Understanding effects of global change on water quantity and quality in river basins

SCARCE is a CONSOLIDER-INGENIO project that aims to understand the effects on rivers being submitted to multiple stressors. SCARCE is developed at four river watersheds in the Mediterranean basin, in order to understand trends and potentials operating at different scales. Iberian Rivers and most of those located in the Mediterranean area are under strong environmental stress due to alterations in water flow, light and temperature regime, nutrient concentration and increasing arrival of toxicants. Potential effects in arid and semiarid regions are related with
decreasing resources, variations in water quality, and effects in the ecosystems. 
These may be related to climate change but also to the human pressure on these systems, which is overwhelming and still rising. Effects of habitat deterioration, point-source or diffuse inputs of nutrients and contaminants, and species invasion or extinction may be relevant on their impact in the ecosystem functioning and services, but also will have social and economic implications. The first Conference SCARCE aims to gather all interested researchers and managers at the cross-roads of using water resources and keeping on conservation and ecological quality.

SCARCE is a CONSOLIDER-INGENIO project that aims to understand the effects on rivers being submitted to multiple stressors. SCARCE is developed at four river watersheds in the Mediterranean basin, in order to understand trends and potentials operating at different scales. Iberian Rivers and most of those located in the Mediterranean area are under strong environmental stress due to alterations in water flow, light and temperature regime, nutrient concentration and increasing arrival of toxicants. Potential effects in arid and semiarid regions are related withdecreasing resources, variations in water quality, and effects in the ecosystems. 

These may be related to climate change but also to the human pressure on these systems, which is overwhelming and still rising. Effects of habitat deterioration, point-source or diffuse inputs of nutrients and contaminants, and species invasion or extinction may be relevant on their impact in the ecosystem functioning and services, but also will have social and economic implications. The first Conference SCARCE aims to gather all interested researchers and managers at the cross-roads of using water resources and keeping on conservation and ecological quality.

1st December: internal meeting for SCARCE members
2nd-3rd December: 1st SCARCE Annual Conference

at Institut Català de Recerca de l'Aigua, Girona 
for more information, please contact Alícia Navarro Ortega

 1st SCARCE Annual Conference Flyer 
Format: PDF 
File size: 1,042 KB

 1st SCARCE Annual Conference Preliminary program 
Format: PDF 
File size: 120 KB

Contact information Alicia NAVARRO, Institut Català de Recerca de l'Aigua, Girona (email: alicia.navarro@idaea.csic.es)
Event type Conference
File link http://www.idaea.csic.es/scarceconsolider/images/Preliminary%20program.pdf
File link copy 20101202_Preliminaryprogram_SCARSE.pdf (PDF, 119 Kb)
Source IDAEA CSIC
Subject(s) HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , WATER DEMAND , WATER QUALITY
Relation http://www.idaea.csic.es/scarceconsolider/images/reunio%20girona%20format%20pdf.pdf
Geographical coverage Spain,
Address at Institut Català de Recerca de l'Aigua, Girona
Organizer Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, Barcelona, Spain and Catalan Institute for Water Research, Girona, Spain
Target audience Regional
Period [01/12/2010 - 03/12/2010]
Status Confirmed
Working language(s) ENGLISH , SPANISH
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