How to overcome the trade-offs between human and envi-ronmental water needs in times of global change The role of ecosystem services and environmental hazards

世纪对水资源的可持续管理提出了严峻的挑战。由于全球和气候变化的压力越来越大，人类和环境用水需求之间的权衡甚至可能增加。这种前景加强了要求进行深刻变革，以实现适应性和综合性的水治理和人类发展的呼声。该项目将分析对生态系统服务和环境危害的综合观点在支持过渡、可持续治理和管理系统方面的作用。将进一步制定一个概念和方法框架，并将其用于对欧洲、澳大利亚、中国和南非河流流域的案例研究进行比较分析。重点将是社会学习进程和应对干旱和洪水的政策。

The 21st century poses extreme challenges for the sustainable management of water re-sources. Trade-offs between human and environmental water needs may even increase due to increasing pressures from global and climate change. Such prospects have strengthened claims for profound changes towards adaptive and integrated water governance and man-agement. The project will ana-lyse the role of an integrated perspective on ecosystem services and environmental hazards in sup-porting transitions sustainable governance and management systems. A conceptual and methodological framework will be further developed and applied for a comparative analysis of case studies in river basins in Europe, Australia, China and South Africa. The focus will be on processes of societal learning and policies for dealing with droughts and floods.