A European assessment of freshwater availability and nutrient pollution
Historical analysis and scenarios developed in the project Blue2.2
This report presents an assessment of European freshwater quantity and quality (nutrients), including and historical analysis (1990-2018) and future scenarios of measures to reduce water scarcity and nutrient pollution.
The study was developed in the context of the project Blue2.2, which aims to support the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and other water related EU strategies, by further developing and applying the JRC freshwater and marine modelling framework. The overall objective of the freshwater modelling is to assess the impacts of scenarios of measures and climate change on the freshwater environment on a pan European scale.
Section 2 of the report describes the freshwater quantity and quality (nutrients) models developed and implemented by the JRC, complementing the marine models in the freshwater-marine modelling framework, including models parametrisation, calibration and validation, as well as references to scientific publications. Section 3 and Section 4 illustrate the historical data on water quantity and quality (1990-2018) estimated in the modelling and the construction of the scenarios of measures, respectively. Section 5 shows the results of the scenarios analysis, considering the specific effect of water quantity and quality measures, and coupled scenarios under future climate, with a specific focus on the difference between the Business As Usual and an High Ambition Scenario of measures implementation.
GRIZZETTI Bruna;
VIGIAK Olga;
UDIAS MOINELO Angel;
BISSELINK Bernard;
PISTOCCHI Alberto;
BOURAOUI Faycal;
MALAGO Anna;
ALOE Alberto;
ZANNI Michela;
WEISS Franz;
HRISTOV Jordan;
WILSON Julian;
PISONI Enrico;
DE MEIJ Alexander;
DE ROO Arie;
MACIAS MOY Diego;
STIPS Adolf;
2022-12-13
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC130025
978-92-76-60057-2 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 31329 EN,
OP KJ-NA-31-329-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC130025,
10.2760/924432 (online),
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