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Autor De Stefano, Lucia |
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Freshwater quality is deteriorating worldwide. In populated areas, urban pollution is the main pressure on surface continental waters, but intensive wastewater treatment is costly. Setting standards for treatment of wastewater before discharge i[...]texto impreso
The alteration of natural flows due to water withdrawals and the presence of hydraulic infrastructure poses significant threats to the integrity of riverine ecosystems. The establishment of environmental flows (EF) has been conceived as a water [...]texto impreso
Bolinches Quero, Antonio ; Paredes-Arquiola, Javier ; Garrido, Alberto ; De Stefano, Lucia | Elsevier | 2020-10-15Freshwater ecosystems and water uses may be jeopardized by the degradation of water quality. The Water Framework Directive of the European Union (EU) sets environmental objectives for water bodies but foresees the establishment of exemptions und[...]texto impreso
Anthropic pressures deteriorate river water quality, so authorities need to identify their causes and define corrective actions. Physically based water quality models are a useful tool for addressing physicochemical pollutants, but they must be [...]texto impreso
Annual and seasonal water variability is predicted to intensify due to climate change. River basins lacking institutional capacity, such as treaties, to deal with environmental change may experience political tensions. Using the 1948–2008 countr[...]texto impreso
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Stah, Kerstin ; Kohn, Irene ; Blauhut, Veit ; Urquijo, Julia ; De Stefano, Lucia ; Acácio, Vanda ; Dias, Susana ; Stagge, James H. ; Tallaksen, Lena M. ; Kampragou, Eleni ; Van Loon, Anne F. ; Barker, Lieke A. Melsen6, Lucy J. ; Melsen, Lieke A. ; Bifulco, Carlo ; Musolino, Dario ; Carli, Carli ; Massarutto, Antonio ; Assimacopoulos, Dionysis ; Van Lanen, Henny A. J. | European Geosciences Union (EGU) | 2016-03-21Drought is a natural hazard that can cause a wide range of impacts affecting the environment, society, and the economy. Providing an impact assessment and reducing vulnerability to these impacts for regions beyond the local scale, spanning polit[...]texto impreso
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González Tánago, Itziar ; Urquijo, Julia ; Blauhut, Veit ; Villarroya Gil, Fermín ; De Stefano, Lucia | Springer | 2016-01In the last decades, there have been an increasing number of vulnerability studies undertaken in the frameworks of several schools of thought and disciplines. This spur of activity is linked to the growing awareness about the importance of shift[...]texto impreso
De Stefano, Lucia ; Urquijo Reguera, Julia ; Montero González, Esperanza ; Bolinches Quero, Antonio ; Villarroya Gil, Fermín Ignacio | 2019-06-30El juego tiene una duración aproximada de 2,5 horas y ayuda a despertar el interés del alumnado sobre los retos del uso y gestión de las aguas subterráneas, haciéndoles por tanto receptivos a los contenidos teóricos relacionados que se explican[...]texto impreso
Valerio, Carlotta ; De Stefano, Lucia ; Martínez Muñoz, Gonzalo ; Garrido, Alberto | Elsevier | 2021-01Anthropogenic activities are seriously endangering the conservation of biodiversity worldwide, calling for urgent actions to mitigate their impact on ecosystems. We applied machine learning techniques to predict the response of freshwater ecosys[...]texto impreso
The Cantareira system is a network of reservoirs located in the inland region of São Paulo State. In 1974 it started operating to bring water from a sparsely populated region – the headwaters of the Piracicaba, Capivari, and Jundiaí (PCJ) rivers[...]texto impreso
Garrick, Dustin E. ; Schlager, Edella ; De Stefano, Lucia ; Villamayor-Tomas, Sergio | Wiley | 2018-06Transboundary river basins experience complex coordination challenges during droughts. The multiscale nature of drought creates potential for spillovers when upstream adaptation decisions have cascading impacts on downstream regions. This paper [...]texto impreso
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Spain is a highly decentralized country where water governance is a multi-level institutional endeavor requiring effective intergovernmental coordination—in terms of objectives and actions. The paper revisits the evolution of vertical and horizo[...]texto impreso
Farmers play a key role in water management at all levels and their role becomes even more relevant during droughts, when water systems are under increased pressure. This paper presents a study based on interviews to farmers in eastern Spain usi[...]texto impreso
Grafton, R. Quentin ; McLindin, Mahala ; Hussey, Karen ; Wyrwoll, Paul ; Wichelns, Dennis ; Ringler, Claudia ; Garrick, Dustin ; Pittock, Jamie ; Wheeler, Sarah ; Orr, Stuart ; Matthews, Nathanial ; Ansink, Erik ; Aureli, Alice ; Connell, Daniel ; De Stefano, Lucia ; Dowsley, Kate ; Farolfi, Stefano ; Hall, Jim ; Katic, Pamela ; Lankford, Bruce ; Leckie, Hannah ; McCartney, Matthew ; Pohlner, Huw ; Ratna, Nazmun ; Rubarenzya, Mark Henry ; Sai Raman, Shriman Narayan ; Wheeler, Kevin ; Williams, John | Wiley Online Library | 2016-06We analyse the threats of global environmental change, as they relate to food security. First, we review three discourses: (i) ‘sustainable intensification’, or the increase of food supplies without compromising food producing inputs, such as so[...]texto impreso
Garrick, Dustin ; De Stefano, Lucia ; Yu, Winston ; Jorgensen, Isabel ; O'Donnel, Erin ; Turley, Laura ; Aguilar Barajas, Ismael ; Dai, Xiaoping ; De Souza Leão, Renata ; Punjabi, Bharat ; Schreiner, Barbara ; Svensson, Jesper ; Wight, Charles | IOP Publishing | 2019-04-11Background: Competition for freshwater between cities and agriculture is projected to grow due to rapid urbanization, particularly in the Global South. Water reallocation from rural to urban regions has become a common strategy to meet freshwate[...]texto impreso
Bolinches Quero, Antonio ; De Stefano, Lucia ; Paredes-Arquiola, Javier | Taylor & Francis | 2020-02-27The European Union (EU) Water Framework Directive (WFD) established in 2000 that EU Member States should achieve good status for all their water bodies by 2027 at the latest. The competent authorities are obliged to commit the necessary resource[...]texto impreso
The main objective of this research paper is to assess the extent to which the concept of water accounting has been applied for water management at the river basin scale in India. For this, the study first assesses the importance given to the us[...]texto impreso
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Examinations of international water treaties suggest that riparian states are not heeding the advice to adopt IWRM. Theories suggest that the larger the number of negotiating states, the lower the cost (per state) of the joint operation of treat[...]