Mapping favorability to the implementation of nature-based solutions for agricultural water management in Europe
Constraints, demand, effectiveness, costs and benefits
This report documents the criteria proposed to map the favourability to investments in nature-based solutions (NBS) for agricultural water management, the costs and effectiveness of various types of NBS. We address selected typologies of NBS, including treatment wetlands for the removal of excess nutrients from manure and the stabilization of sludge; buffer strips, ponds and vegetated drainage ditches for diffuse pollution control; and ponds for water storage and managed aquifer recharge to address irrigation demand. We identify areas where each of the typologies of NBS can be implemented, taking into account various constraints. We introduce indicators representing the intensity of "demand" for NBS, i.e. presence of diffuse pollution loads, excess manure and sewage sludge, soil erosion and pesticide loads, summer deficit of precipitation with respect to potential evapotranspiration, lack of biodiversity at the landscape scale, and intensity of extreme precipitation requiring flood buffering. The report suggests an approach to using the above information to build scenarios of implementation of NBS, which can be applied for the appraisal of programmes of measures at the regional and European scale.
PISTOCCHI Alberto;
2022-12-14
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC131469
978-92-76-60171-5 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 31331 EN,
OP KJ-NA-31-331-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC131469,
10.2760/822671 (online),
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