Hidrológiai Közlöny, 2017 (97. évfolyam)
2017 / 3. szám - MANAGING WATER QUALITY (ONGOING PROJECTS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES) - Siegel, Hubert: CAMARO-D - a Danube basin approach to land use management
48 Hidrológiai Közlöny (Hungarian Journal of Hydrology) 2017. 97. évf. 3. sz. responsible for policy-related issues concerning recommendations for legislation and funding possibilities and their implementation, thus influencing future strategies towards optimal land use management within river catchments. Furthermore, the relevant information transfer to the respective stakeholders and the development of national implementation-roadmaps for LUDP are important responsibilities for the governmental institutions. In addition, water suppliers of CAMARO-D (Municipality of the City of Vienna Department 31 - Vienna Water- MA 31 in Austria, Public Water Utility JP VODOVOD- KANALIZACIJA Ljubljana - JP VO-KA in Slovenia) provide their experiences and problems related to actual drinking water supply situations and the necessary improvements. Last but not least, the tasks of research and educational institutions in CAMARO-D (Agricultural Research and Education Centre Raumberg-Gumpenstein - AREC in Austria, University of Ljubljana - UL in Slovenia, Croatian Geological Survey - HGI in Croatia, Czech Technical University - CTU in the Czech Republic, Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg, Dept. Soils and Environment- FVA in Germany, The Jaroslav Cemi Institute for the Development of Water Resources - JCI in Serbia) not only make a considerable contribution allowing new scientific insights, but they also undertake public relation activities and dissemination of project outcomes as well as specific trainings for project-related stakeholders. The broad experiences of the involved institutions gained within previous projects and studies are incorporated especially within the envisaged pilot activities. The agro-meteorological institution NMA in Romania has comprehensive experiences in weather forecasting, especially flood forecasting, and develops (amongst others) an early-warning system and tools for the assessment of extreme events (floods and droughts) within the project in order to protect water resources and mitigate flood risk. Issues related to spatial planning are covered by respective subcontractors, Associated Partners and governmental institutions of CAMARO-D. The main target groups are public authorities ranging from local and regional to national level, various experts such as farmers, foresters, spatial planners, NGOs as well as the general public. CAMARO-D outputs such as GUIDR and LUDP are strongly tailored to the needs of the respective target groups and directly communicated to the relevant stakeholders and decision makers by the following means: • organising different learning interactions: workshops and pilot-specific trainings with relevant stakeholders in selected pilot areas for sharing new know-how and adequate measures for application, cross-sector stakeholder workshops and trainings for durable implementation of GUIDR within the pilot areas also beyond project lifetime • signing a Memorandum of Understanding covering joint proceedings towards further implementation of LUDP by notable representatives of each partner country. SYNERGIES WITH OTHER INTERREG PROJECTS CAMARO-D is a further step in a number of former projects, performed by various members of the partnership, from small-scale pilot investigations in the field to basinwide guidelines. In the CADSES and CE 2007-2013 programmes, the impacts of different land use types were studied in small- scale pilot surveys within the ILUP project, based on comparable surface water runoff field tests in different types of land cover. Together with the projects LABEL and SEE River integrated land use and spatial planning for flood prevention and soil protection at regional and river basin scale were discussed. “KATER II”, “CC-WaterS”, “CC-WARE”, “ALLEGRO”: Impacts of land use and climate change on drinking water resources and adaptation strategies for mitigating their vulnerability; especially the CC-project series outlined a follow-up from large-scale climate prognosis into small-scale pilot actions on different land use types in various climate regions within the SEE program. The impact of climate change and means to mitigate its negative effects on the water requirements of different crop types, grassland and forest ecosystems was elaborated. The results of these pilot exercises were distilled into guidelines for more sustainable land use in view of the anticipated climate change in different clusters. This was also the theme of the OrientGate project, which was based on climate models related to the SEE program space. Several projects like “Optimisation of water and ecology demands to forest management”, “ForestFocus project BioSoil”, “DriWaS” and “ISIS” dealt with the assessment of water quality and critical deposition loads and the improvement of measures regarding EU legislation. Building on these experiences in combination with the outcomes of previously implemented pilot actions and surveys, CAMARO-D generates best practices considering different interdependencies in close cooperation with relevant stakeholders. Furthermore, for the first time, basinwide views of interdependencies regarding the management of different land -use types are meant to lead to a new approach t regulations within a European context. The results of CAMARO-D shall be used as a basis for new funding regulations within the ELER 14-20 program. Permanent know-how exchange is conducted through current projects/programmes, like “Danube:Future” (the largest pool of institutionalized knowledge in the Danube River Basin as a Flagship Project of EUSDR).
