| Authors |
Pulido-Velazquez, M., Sauer, J., Koundouri, P., Allan, A. and Klove, B. |
| Title |
The EU FP7 GENESIS project on groundwater systems. Contributions to the analysis of economic, legal and institutional issues of groundwater management with selected case studies. |
| Abstract |
The EU Water Framework Directive clearly integrates economics into water
management and policy making, and economics is to have a decisive role in the
development of the programme of measures and the new river basin management
plans. This paper provides a brief overview of the contribution of the EU GENESIS
project with the application of different economic or hydro-economic methods and
approaches for analyzing and/or selecting sustainable cost-efficient measures and
management strategies to achieve a good quantitative and chemical groundwater
status in six selected case studies across Europe that differ in their physical settings,
drivers, pressures, impacts, and management and policy issues. Three main economic
approaches have been employed: hydro-economic modelling combining simulation
and optimization techniques, non-market valuation (choice experiment) and
econometric analysis to derive relevant policy insight from specific surveys in the area.
The Bayesian network technique was also tested to assess the impacts of several
polices for integrated multiobjective groundwater management. Given that any feasible
policy has to be designed considering the conditions of the legal and institutional
framework, a in-depth analysis of the legal and institutional conditions was conducted
for three cases. Finally, multicriteria studies (MAVT technique) were also applied to
three selected cases in order to assess stakeholder preferences and identify potential
conflicts as well as common ground. |
| Keywords |
groundwater management, Water Framework Directive, hydro-economic modelling, choice experiment, multicriteria analysis |
| File |
The.EU.FP7.GENESIS.project.pdf (253979 bytes) |
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First version |
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