Getting into the water with the Ecosystem Services Approach: The DESSIN ESS evaluation framework

Anzaldua, Gerardo; Gerner, Nadine; Lago, Manuel Jesús Dolz; Abhold, Katrina; Hinzmann, Mandy; Beyer, Sarah; Winking, Caroline; Riegels, Niels; Jensen, Jørgen Krogsgaard; Termes, Montserrat; Amorós, Jaume; Wencki, Kristina; Strehl, Clemens; Ugarelli, Rita Maria; Hasenheit, Marius; Nafo, Issa; Hernández, M. A. Hernández; Vilanova, Ester; Damman, Sigrid; Brouwer, Stijn; Rouillard, Josselin; Schwesig, David; Birk, Sebastian

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.12.004

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“…Monitoring programmes are needed to drive scientific research investigating the causes and consequences of salinization, including experimental and modelling exercises. Data from scientific research should be used to provide information to the public and policy makers about the risks associated with salinization, driving regulatory actions and advancing management strategies to minimize the negative consequences of freshwater salinization (figure 1) [57][58][59]. Although management decisions and regulatory actions need to include an adequate assessment of the costs and benefits to the public and the environment, researchers must also acknowledge that any estimation of risk will be imperfect.…”

Section: Consequences Of Salinizationmentioning

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Regulations are needed to protect freshwater ecosystems from salinization

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Hintz

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Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Anthropogenic activities such as mining, agriculture and industrial wastes have increased the rate of salinization of freshwater ecosystems around the world. Despite the known and probable consequences of freshwater salinization, few consequential regulatory standards and management procedures exist. Current regulations are generally inadequate because they are regionally inconsistent, lack legal consequences and have few ion-specific standards. The lack of ion-specific standards is problematic, because each anthropogenic source of freshwater salinization is associated with a distinct set of ions that can present unique social and economic costs. Additionally, the environmental and toxicological consequences of freshwater salinization are often dependent on the occurrence, concentration and ratios of specific ions. Therefore, to protect fresh waters from continued salinization, discrete, ion-specific management and regulatory strategies should be considered for each source of freshwater salinization, using data from standardized, ion-specific monitoring practices. To develop comprehensive monitoring, regulatory, and management guidelines, we recommend the use of co-adaptive, multi-stakeholder approaches that balance environmental, social, and economic costs and benefits associated with freshwater salinization. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Salt in freshwaters: causes, ecological consequences and future prospects’.

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Section: Consequences Of Salinizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Regulations are needed to protect freshwater ecosystems from salinization

Schuler

Cañedo‐Argüelles

Hintz

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Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…As water managers need to fully grasp the impacts of a large range of decisions on water, they need specific tools that simplify the communication across a large range of disciplines. The balanced combination of administrative capacity and specialized expertise supports advancing the sustainable management of water resources and interdisciplinary approaches displaying ecological, economic and social aspects of the information improve the overarching communication with different stakeholders [8]. The approach is particularly suitable for scenario assessment, including climate variations as demonstrated in this study.…”

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“…Therefore, Alpine water management strategies potentially affect an important part of Europe. For the long-term protection of water resources, a transboundary approach is needed to ensure the sustainable use of water resources as well as the protection of vital ecosystems enhancing water quality [8] and mitigating the impacts of global change on water resources and related benefits [9].…”

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“…ES are defined as the benefits that people obtain from ecosystems [10] and their provision depends on the state of the ecosystem, the abiotic and biophysical conditions, and anthropogenic activities [11,12]. As assessments of ES are increasingly inferred or modelled from both key ecosystem properties such as vegetation, topography and climatic variables [13] and socio-economic information such as population and land use, this concept recognises the multi-functionality of ecosystems and provides information on social and economic aspects, which are highly important for complex decisions in water management [8]. This holistic approach is especially important in the light of global change, affecting high-elevated mountain regions and their freshwater resources more seriously than lowlands [14].…”

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Assessing Freshwater Provision and Consumption in the Alpine Space Applying the Ecosystem Service Concept

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A key challenge in the sustainable management of freshwater is related to non-stationary processes and transboundary requirements. The assessment of freshwater is often hampered due to small-scale analyses, lacking data and with the focus on only its provision. Based on the ecosystem service (ES) concept, this study aims at quantitatively comparing potential water supply with the demand for freshwater in the European Alps and their surrounding lowlands. We propose an easy-to-use combination of different mapping approaches, including a large-scale hydrologic model to estimate water supply and the downscaling of regional data to the local scale to map demand. Our results demonstrate spatial mismatches between supply and demand and a high dependency of the densely populated lowlands from water providing mountain areas. Under expected climate variations and future demographic changes, our results suggest increasing pressures on freshwater in the south of the Alps. Hence, sustainable water management strategies need to assure the supply of freshwater under changing environmental conditions to meet the increasing water demand of urbanized areas in the lowlands. Moreover, national water management strategies need to be optimally concerted at the international level, as transboundary policies and frameworks can strengthen future water provision.

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“…In 2014-2017, the large European FP7 DESSIN project (Demonstrate Ecosystem Services Enabling Innovation in the Water Sector) (https://dessin-project.eu/) allowed validating an ASR scheme with pre-potable water (sand-filtered river water) as a recharge source, to be developed in Barcelona [19]. A water injection test of 0.64 hm 3 of pre-potable water took place from July 2015 to July 2016 at the P18 injection well.…”

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The large concentration of human population, industry and services in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona has to confront scarce water resources, serious seasonal and inter-annual variations and quality deficiencies in the sources. A large fraction of these water resources are in the medium-size Llobregat River basin and the remaining ones correspond to a surface water transfer, seawater desalination and wastewater reclamation. Groundwater dominated water resources availability before 1950. Afterwards, water supply has evolved progressively to integrated water resources management, which includes serious water quality concerns to deal with population density, river pollution, seawater intrusion in the main aquifer, and brine generation in the mid Llobregat basin due to old mining of saline minerals. The role of the alluvial aquifers has progressively evolved from being the main water source to reserve storage to cope with seasonal and drought water resources availability. River-enhanced recharge and artificial recharge are needed to assure enough groundwater storage before surface water becomes scarce and/or suffers a serious temporal loss of quality. Enhanced river recharge started in 1950. Treated river water injection in dual-purpose wells was put into operation in the early 1970s. Basin and pond recharge was added later, as well as a deep well injection barrier along the coast to reduce seawater intrusion and to allow increased groundwater abstraction in moments of water scarcity. There is a progressive evolution from solving water quantity problems to consideration of water quality improvement during recharge, with attention to emergent concern pollutants in river water and in reclaimed water to be considered for artificial recharge. Improvement of artificial recharge operation activities has been introduced and research is being carried out on the difficult behavior to degrade organic pollutants during infiltration and in the terrain. This paper presents the different activities carried out and presents the research activities, and comments on the economic, social and administrative issues involved as well.

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Getting into the water with the Ecosystem Services Approach: The DESSIN ESS evaluation framework

Cited by 28 publications

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Regulations are needed to protect freshwater ecosystems from salinization

Regulations are needed to protect freshwater ecosystems from salinization

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