SCENES: Water Scenarios for Europe and for Neighbouring States
The SCENES is a 4-year project developing and analysing a set of comprehensive scenarios of Europe's freshwater futures up to 2025, covering all of "Greater" Europe reaching to the Caucasus and Ural Mountains, and including the Mediterranean rim countries of north Africa and the near East. These scenarios will provide a reference point for long-term strategic planning of European water resource development, alert policymakers and stakeholders about emerging problems, and allow river basin managers to test regional and local water plans against uncertainties and surprises which are inherently imbedded in a longer term strategic planning process.
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Narrative scenario storylines are produced by stakeholders' panels |
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Water related drivers are quantified for the scenarios through data or expert opinion. |
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The WaterGap model is used to produce quantitative estimates for scenarios.
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In total 11 indicators have been selected for calculation |
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Policy options are investigated through a backcasting excersise. A web base scenario service is being developed to make all the results available. |
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Synthesis
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Project co-ordinators
Prof. Juha Kämäri, Finnish Environment Institute (Helsinki, Finland),
e-mail: firstname.surname@ymparisto.fi [juha kamari]
Prof. Joseph Alcamo, University of Kassel, Center for Environmental Systems Research (Kassel, Germany),
e-mail: surname@usf.uni-kassel.de [alcamo]
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SCENES is jointly funded by EC 6th Research Framework Programme (Contract number: 036822) and the research programmes of the collaborating organizations.
 
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