A multi-step scenario analysis for assessing possible strategies aimed to reduce the eutrophication in the North Adriatic coastal zone (Contributo in atti di convegno)

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  • A multi-step scenario analysis for assessing possible strategies aimed to reduce the eutrophication in the North Adriatic coastal zone (Contributo in atti di convegno) (literal)
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  • 2005-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • Trombino G.; Pirrone N.; Cinnirella S.; Algieri A. (2005)
    A multi-step scenario analysis for assessing possible strategies aimed to reduce the eutrophication in the North Adriatic coastal zone
    in LOICZ II Inaugural Open Science Meeting, Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, 27-29 June
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  • Trombino G.; Pirrone N.; Cinnirella S.; Algieri A. (literal)
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  • A multi-step scenario analysis for assessing possible strategies aimed to reduce the eutrophication in the North Adriatic coastal zone (literal)
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  • In order to achieve the goals and objectives of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) 2000/60/EC there is a need to develop a multi-disciplinary approach able to combine economic, social and natural sciences. Among the major targets and objectives to be achieved, the WFD requires the development of strategies such as the River Basin Management Plan (RBMP) (Art. 13 of WFD) that allow to achieve a Good Environmental Status (GES) by the year 2015 (Art. 4-WFD). The trophic conditions of the North Adriatic Sea are strictly related to the nutrient loads carried by the Po river. Thus, the reduction of this environmental issue depends upon the implementation of a sustainable development of socio-economic activities in the Po Basin. In order to evaluate possible strategies able to achieve the GES, three types of scenarios were developed: the Business-As-Usual (BAU), Policy Target (POT) and Deep Green (DG) scenarios. The Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework was used for the characterization of the integrated system, according to the WFD requirements (Art. 5 WFD), and evaluating the causal mechanisms linking anthropogenic pressure originating in the Po basin with the corresponding eutrophication level observed in the North Adriatic. Different narratives were analysed according to the socio-economic development of the Po Basin Area in the last 20 years and policy measures adopted by major Italian Institutions such as the Po River Basin Authority (ABP) addressed to reduce the nutrients load released to the Po River-Adriatic Coastal Zone continuum. In order to assess the relative contribution of major patterns affecting nutrients transport in the catchment-CZ system for the BAU, POT and DG scenarios the MONERIS model was used for assessing nutrient transport pathways in the Po catchment, whereas the WASP model was used for assessing the dynamic processes of nutrients in the North Adriatic Coastal zone. (literal)
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