The scope of the project is to investigate the environmental impact of climate change on the natural evolution of river deltas, with a pilot application in the Pinios delta. For this reason, the participating research teams will consider the various scenarios of climate change and types of human intervention for the development of new methods and tools for the resilience of the climate change (including sea level rise) consequences.
The main objectives are:
- to carry out systemic analysis of the deltaic environment of Pinios river that describes the geological, geomorphological, physical, chemical, hydrogeological and coastal oceanographic processes acting on it, assess their role in delta formation and development, and link them with existing and/or anticipated socio-economic activities, like land-use.
- to use this system description through the establishment of a dynamically expandable geo-database for a detailed assessment of the vulnerability of the delta to the various climate change scenarios.
- to develop mitigating (resilience) strategies, for the different climate change scenarios and being applicable to other Greek deltas, with respect to hydro-geological processes (i.e., water balance, chemical burden of surficial and ground water in relation to anthropogenic activities, salt-water intrusion), degradation of the deltaic plain (i.e. desertification, flooding and land-loss due to sea-level rise) for the case of Pinios Delta.
RESEARCH PERIOD (IN MONTHS): 42
Start of Research: 1/04/12 Expected End of Research: 30/09/2015