STARS4Water - Supporting STakeholders for Adaptive, Resilient and Sustainable Water Management

由于气候变化影响迅速加剧，世界范围内的淡水资源面临越来越大的压力，使水资源的供应和质量以及社会经济发展面临风险。流域组织需要做好准备。STARS4Water旨在提高对气候变化对水资源可获得性的影响以及流域范围内生态系统、社会和经济部门的脆弱性的了解。STARS4Water将开发和提供新的数据服务和数据驱动模式，以更好地支持淡水资源适应性、复原力和可持续管理行动规划的决策。该项目团队将通过共同创建、活实验室的方式与七个流域组织合作。新的服务和模式将与利益攸关方共同设计，以满足他们对数据和信息的需求，确保在项目生命周期之后使用的相关性和接受度。STARS4Water项目包括两个独特的要素：第一，需要一个国际利益攸关方社区来满足利益攸关方的需求和要求；第二，开发和应用创新的数据和模型概念。新的数据集和模型为改进对水资源可获得性的预测提供了可能性，对水、自然、社会之间联系的新见解要求在水资源管理决策中考虑一套更广泛的指标。这些新的数据集、模型和指标在目前的流域管理信息工具和决策过程中还没有完全成熟和整合。我们承认，这些要素具有不同的性质，分别是利益相关者驱动的方法，以及在应用新数据和模型时由科学(数据)驱动的。该联盟坚信，要想在适应气候变化方面取得实质性进展，就需要将这两个要素结合起来。

Worldwide freshwater resources are under increasing pressures of rapidly intensifying climate change effects putting the availability and quality of water resources and socio-economic developments at risk. River basin organisations need to be prepared. STARS4Water aims at improving the understanding of climate change impacts on water resources availability and the vulnerabilities for ecosystems, society and economic sectors at river basin scale. STARS4Water will develop and deliver new data services and data-driven models for better supporting the decision making on planning on actions for adaptative, resilient and sustainable management of fresh water resources. The project team will work with seven river basin organisations through a co-creation, living lab approach. The new services and models will be co-designed with stakeholders to meet their needs on data and information, ensuring relevance and uptake for use beyond the lifetime of the project. The STARS4Water project includes two distinctive elements: first, the need for an international stakeholder community to address the stakeholders’ needs and requirements and second, the development and application of innovative data and model concepts. New datasets and models offer possibilities for improved projections on water resources availability, and the new insights on links between water, nature, society ask for a broader set of indicators to be considered in decision-making on water management. These novel datasets, models and indicators are not yet fully matured and integrated in current river basin management information tools and decision-making processes. We acknowledge that these elements are of a different nature, being a stakeholder-driven approach and rather science-(data-)driven in the application of novel data and models, respectively. It is the consortium’s firm conviction that for substantial progress in climate change adaptation the two elements need to be combined.