Cofunded by the European Union

Improving landscape resilience by integrating measures to adapt and mitigate hydrological extremes

Abstract -

It is critically important to protect society from the effects of floods and droughts, which will occur more frequently in future due to climate change. LandEX aims to improve landscape resilience to hydroclimatic extremes – both floods and droughts – by spatially optimising a suite of adaptation measures in the landscape. Knowledge gaps addressed by LandEX include:

  • I. How different (Nature Based Solution; NBS) measures can increase water retention in the landscape and, thus, mitigate floods and droughts at the same time;
  • II. How their spatial location determines their effectiveness at the landscape level, and
  • III. Potential synergies between a network of different measures distributed throughout the landscape to mitigate both floods and droughts [...]

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It is co-funded by the European Union within the frame of the Horizon Europe programme (a key funding programme for research and innovation). The Partnership duration is for seven years from 2022.

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