Anticipating water stress in the Mediterranean: a decision support approach for better water resources management

Over the past thirty years, climatic variations as well as water-use changes induced a net decrease in streamflows over the Mediterranean basin. The question arises on climate and human activities evolution trends and on their impacts on water resources. An integrated water resources modeling framework was developed to describe current pressures at the catchment scale, to evaluate changes in water allocation and to apprehend the capacity of adaptation strategies to reduce water tensions. Applied over the Ebro catchment (Spain), the approach enabled identifying areas most vulnerable to climatic and/or anthropogenic pressures.

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Desalination in the Mediterranean: Measures to Mitigate Environmental Risks and Impacts

Through this thematic note entitled “Desalination in the Mediterranean: Measures to Mitigate Environmental Risks and Impacts”, Plan Bleu reviews all the issues associated with desalination

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04/06/24

Application of the Multiscale Coastal Risk Index-Local Scale to Kotor Bay, Montenegro

Building on the “Gender-sensitive Climate Risk Assessment of Kotor Bay, Montenegro”, this report provides a downscaled application of the Multiscale Coastal Risk Index-Local Scale to

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23/05/24

Final Report: Application of the Climagine Methodology In support of development of the Kotor Bay Coastal Management, Montenegro

This final report compiles the outcomes of the four stakeholder engagement workshops for the Coastal Management Plan and the Climagine methodology in Kotor Bay. These

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