Objective
The CLARIS LPB Project aims at predicting the regional climate change impacts on La Plata Basin (LPB) in South America, and at designing adaptation strategies for land-use, agriculture, rural development, hydropower production, river transportation, water resources and ecological systems in wetlands. In order to reach such a goal, the project has been built on the following four major thrusts. First, improving the description and understanding of decadal climate variability is of prime importance for short-term regional climate change projections (2010-2040). Second, a sound approach requires an ensemble of coordinated regional climate scenarios in order to quantify the amplitude and sources of uncertainties in LPB future climate at two time horizons: 2010-2040 for adaptation strategies and 2070-2100 for assessment of long-range impacts. Such coordination will allow to critically improve the prediction capacity of climate change and its impacts in the region. Third, adaptation strategies to regional scenarios of climate change impacts require a multi-disciplinary approach where all the regional components (climate, hydrology, land use, land cover, agriculture and deforestation) are addressed in a collaborative way. Feedbacks between the regional climate groups and the land use and hydrology groups will ensure to draw a first-order feedback of future land use and hydrology scenarios onto the future regional climate change. Fourth, stakeholders must be integrated in the design of adaptation strategies, ensuring their dissemination to public, private and governmental policy-makers. Finally, in continuity with the FP6 CLARIS Project, our project will put a special emphasis in forming young scientists in European institutes and in strengthening the collaborations between European and South American partners. The project is coordinated with the objectives of LPB, an international project on La Plata Basin that has been endorsed by the CLIVAR and GEWEX Panels.
Fields of science
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrology
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencessoil sciencesland-based treatment
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energyhydroelectricity
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
Keywords
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
FP7-ENV-2007-1
See other projects for this call
Funding Scheme
CP-SICA - Collaborative project for specific cooperation actions dedicated to international cooperation partner countries (SICA)Coordinator
13572 Marseille
France
See on map
Participants (19)
NR4 7TJ Norwich
See on map
15374 Muencheberg
See on map
80539 Munchen
See on map
73100 Lecce
See on map
40126 Bologna
See on map
13071 Ciudad Real
See on map
601 76 NORRKOEPING
See on map
12227-010 Sao Jose Dos Campos
See on map
05508 900 Sao Paulo Sp
See on map
88040-900 Florianopolis
See on map
80060000 Curitiba
See on map
C1425FQB Buenos Aires
See on map
1053 Buenos Aires
See on map
C1033AAE BUENOS AIRES
See on map
1804 Ezeiza Buenos Aires
See on map
11200 Montevideo
See on map
75794 Paris
See on map
20134 Milano
See on map
1211 Geneve
See on map