EGU General Assembly 2024. Session HS5.2.4 “Integrated approaches to assess the impacts of land use and land cover changes on water-related ecosystem services” | PICO
Giulio Castelli
Dear colleagues,
Apologies for any cross-posting. We would like to invite you to submit your abstracts to the following EGU General Assembly 2024 session.
Title: Integrated approaches to assess the impacts of land use and land cover changes on water-related ecosystem services
Link: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/session/49012
Format: PICO session - https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2013/03/27/pico-presentations-explained/
Keynote Speaker:
To be announced
Session description:
Land use and land cover (LULC) changes are one of the main drivers of change to hydrological processes, altering the ecosystem dynamics and impacting the production of water-related ecosystem services (WES). LULC changes can emerge directly from anthropogenic interventions, or indirectly as the result of climate change, determining different levels of impact on socio-ecological systems. Integrated approaches are needed to assess the impact of LULC changes on the whole hydrological cycle (e.g. streamflow, groundwater quantity and quality, evaporation and transpiration, soil moisture, and rainfall interception) and associated ecosystem services. Indeed, changes to these elements can possibly lead to non-local and non-linear effects on WES and their dynamics in socio-ecological systems, which need to be analysed from multiple perspectives, such as ecohydrology as well as socio-hydrology, to inform effective and equitable water resource management.
This session welcomes both ecohydrology and socio-hydrology studies that address the impacts of LULC changes on all water resources, hydrological processes, and associated WES, such as flood regulation, moisture recycling, temperature regulation, and food provisioning. More specifically, we welcome studies including, but not limited to:
Advances in the quantification of hydrological impacts of LULC changes through ecohydrological and socio-hydrological modelling and experimental data
Disentanglement of LULC change impacts on water resources (surface and groundwater, green water, atmospheric water) and associated WES
Analysis and evaluation of policy interventions to mitigate impacts, such as ecological restoration schemes and nature-based solutions, with respect to their effectiveness and feasibility to protect and/or restore WES
Advances in (interdisciplinary) methodologies for identifying WES, as well as studies highlighting spatial assessments of WES
Socio-hydrological and Hydro-social approaches dealing with land, water, and ecosystem management, aiming also to highlight feedback loops between social and bio-geophysical dynamics
The abstract submission deadline is 13:00 CET, 10 January 2024.
Apply for financial support by submitting your abstract by 13:00 CET, 1 December 2023.
We look forward to receiving your abstracts!
Kind regards,
Giulio Castelli, University of Florence, Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI)
Sofie te Wierik, PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Tommaso Pacetti, University of Florence, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICEA)
