The project consisted of the combination of vulnerability and risk assessment, monitoring and participative planning. The overall aim of the project was to involve all the interested stakeholders into the lake management and the related activities; thereby, fighting against climate change and other environmental stressors.
Objective of the project:
The aim of the project was to support the sustainable management of Central European lakes by fostering new, integrated approach.
The EULAKES project (financed by Central Europe) supported the sustainable management of Central European lakes through an integrated approach and a transnational partnership, between research centres and local communities. To respond to climate change and other environmental stressors, the project aimed at identifying a governance model that combined environmental monitoring, risk and environmental fragility assessment and a system of participatory planning.
The four lakes involved in the project – Lake Garda (Italy), Lake Balaton (Hungary), Lake Neusiedl (Austria) and Lake Charzykowskie (Poland) – are so called multipurpose lake. In fact, they served as potential habitats for indigenous wildlife, drinking water sources and had high recreational capacity. In the last ten years, the ecosystems of all these lakes were showing significant increasing vulnerability. In particular, they suffered the impact of climate change, which added to problems related to land use, tourism, water quality, ecological biodiversity and new invasive species.
In order to evaluate different climate change scenarios, which consider the lakes’ ecological status and environmental risk, the project harmonized vulnerability and risk assessment methods.
The project contributed to:
Partners:
Lake Garda Community, Italy (Lead Partner)
Environmental protection agency of Trento (APPA), Italy
Edmund Mach Foundation (IASMA FEM), Italy
National Research Council Institute for electromagnetic sensing of the environment (CNR – IREA), Italy
Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH (AIT), Austria
Austrian League of Nature Conservation (BURGENLAND), Austria
University of Pannonia, Hungary
Lake Balaton Development Coordination Agency (LBDCA), Hungary
Institute of Meteorology and Water Management-National Research Institute (IMGW-PIB), Poland
El proyecto “Gestión y restauración de humedales mediterráneos como sumideros de carbono – LIFE Wetlands4Climate (LIFE19 CCM/ES/001235) está cofinanciado por el Programa LIFE de la Unión Europea
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