{"id":185,"date":"2024-05-22T09:56:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T08:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reshape.labs.vu.nl\/?page_id=185"},"modified":"2024-05-22T09:56:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T08:56:14","slug":"wp2-evaluation-and-spatial-allocation-of-water-ecosystem-disservices","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reshape.labs.vu.nl\/?page_id=185","title":{"rendered":"WP2: (E)valuation and Spatial Allocation of Water Ecosystem (Dis)services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Problem and Knowledge Gap:<\/strong> Sandy landscapes are currently highly vulnerable to droughts, floods, pollution, and losses in soil carbon and biodiversity, which result in significant welfare and well-being losses for human populations across watersheds. Additionally, existing water and landscape configurations lead to rising socio-economic costs due to the suboptimal and unsustainable distribution of water supply and quality among various locations and users within a watershed. Understanding the economic values of a wide range of ecosystem services provided by watersheds is crucial for transforming towards more sustainable landscapes. However, we lack comprehensive knowledge on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>The values (costs and benefits) of ecosystem (dis)services related to water supply and quality under climate change.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The spatial distribution and dependencies of these costs and benefits among different water users within a watershed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The economic incentives and instruments necessary to regulate the sustainable allocation of water-related ecosystem (dis)services amidst increasing climate extremes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>What are the effects of water excess, scarcity, and quality on the monetary values of ecosystem (dis)services under various climate change projections and different water and land configurations?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How do spatial dependencies within a water system influence the costs and benefits for different regions and water users within a watershed?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What levels and types of economic incentives are required to ensure a sustainable spatial allocation of water among users during floods and droughts, and to enhance the adaptation and resilience of water users to these climate extremes?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>By addressing these questions, we aim to develop strategies for a more sustainable and economically efficient management of water resources in sandy landscapes, enhancing resilience to climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem and Knowledge Gap: Sandy landscapes are currently highly vulnerable to droughts, floods, pollution, and losses in soil carbon and biodiversity, which result in significant welfare and well-being losses for human populations across watersheds. Additionally, existing water and landscape configurations lead to rising socio-economic costs due to the suboptimal and unsustainable distribution of water supply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reshape.labs.vu.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reshape.labs.vu.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reshape.labs.vu.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reshape.labs.vu.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reshape.labs.vu.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reshape.labs.vu.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/reshape.labs.vu.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185\/revisions\/186"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reshape.labs.vu.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reshape.labs.vu.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}