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HEIndividual fellowship2022–2024

SIMARIS · Strategic Investments in Mitigation, Adaptation and Resource Recovery Innovations at Basin Scale - SIMARIS

Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2022-11-01 → 2024-10-31
EU contribution
€172,750
Participants
1
Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Results in brief

Strategic Investments in Mitigation, Adaptation and Resource Recovery Innovations at Basin Scale - SIMARIS

Water and energy scarcity and land degradation are major threats to the sustainability of livelihoods across arid and semi-arid regions of the world, including Uzbekistan in Central Asia. The SIMARIS project aims to analyze the impacts of climate change on resource availability and the technological advancements to enhance sustainable transition in crop production and irrigation systems. Specific objectives are: -Implementing an intertemporal investment and endogenous technological change modeling framework to improve water-economic modeling capacity to analyze long-term strategies. -Assessing the optimal investment requirements, economic and environmental impacts of water technology adoptions. -Examining the impact of environmental changes (climate or water supply) and economic instruments (markets, taxes, subsidies, etc.) on technology adoption and economic welfare. The project considers the development and implementation of climate impact, economy-wide impact, and integrated economic growth and investment models to address the research objectives. In particular, the integrated economic growth and investment model allows for the analysis of strategic investments to improve water, land and energy productivity and strengthen the resilience of infrastructural systems to deal with resource scarcity and natural catastrophes. Moreover, an economy-wide impact model is developed and used to analyze the dependence of water productivity improvement technology and virtual water trading policy. In addition to numerous contributions to the water-economic modeling field, this project effectively contributes to improving environmental protection and investment policy making in the study area and in regions facing increasing water scarcity. This project contributes to training the Marie-Curie Fellow to senior researcher positions related to integrated water-land-energy-climate-economic assessment modeling.

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Project objective

Global warming and consequent increase in frequencies of extreme weather events (flooding, drought, landslides, etc.) have become major threats to livelihoods across many river basins. Additionally, increasing scarcity of energy, water, land and nutrients threaten food, health and environmental security and require more efficient uses of resources. Yet, most prevention policies aim at only short-term measures of protection or recovery and most basin-scale hydro-economic assessment models do not consider long-term causes, consequences and economic effects of such changes and related policies. Focusing mostly on water, land or energy use efficiency enhancement, water-energy-economic modeling research do not adequately address circular economy options of improving resources use efficiency and reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions. This research therefore investigates long-term investments required for climate change mitigation, adaptation and resource recovery innovations at river basin scale. This will be achieved through applying a novel approach of integrating intertemporal macroeconomic growth model with process-based hydro-energy-economic model. Offering demanded policy-relevant solutions to river basin managers and enriching water management research with novel methods, this study greatly enhance the scientific career of the author.

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Participants

  • UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA · VeneziaCoordinatorItaly

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