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SeCure

Saltwater intrusion and climate change: monitoring, countermeasures and informed governance

START DATE

01.05.2022

END DATE

30.06.2023

TOTAL BUDGET

€ 599.675

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE

2.1 Improve the climate change monitoring and planning of adaptation measures tackling specific effects, in the cooperation area

LEAD PARTNER

SeCure - University of Padua – Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (UNIPD)

TARGET GROUPS

General public
Local, regional and national public authorities and related entities
Education and training centers
Universities and research institutes

The standard Projects MoST, Asteris, and Change We Care developed within the Interreg V-A IT-HR (MAC IT-HR in the following) allowed significant advances both in i) the characterization of the process of saltwater intrusion under the effects of climate change in the Adriatic low-lying coastal areas of Italy and Croatia and ii) proposing best practices for facing this scourge. Specifically, the monitoring networks established by these three Projects helped to design and realize countermeasures aimed at mitigating the salinization of farmland soils and water bodies, thus enhancing agricultural productivity. In addition, from the gained experiences, specific guidelines were developed by each of the three projects at the local scale considered in each pilot site.

SeCure, which is allocated in the Cluster Adaptation to climate changes "governance and capacity building", is aimed to maximize i) the main outcomes and the experiences developed in MAC IT-HR projects, ii) synergies between the projects to enhance visibility and transferability, fully exploit and consolidate the results achieved so far, and increase the knowledge base on the saltwater contamination of the northern Adriatic coastlands in preparation for the next programming period, in particular Specific objective 2.4.

First, SeCure will allow to extend to one more year the monitoring activities of the three joint projects giving the opportunity to use a longer time window for improving the characterization of the saltwater intrusion, which is subject to a wide range of natural forcing conditions and climate change. Second, SeCure will take advantage of one more year of monitoring to assess the effectiveness of the realized countermeasures in terms of water quality and agricultural productivity. Third, comparison and integration of the different experiences coming from MAC IT-HR PPs will allow to upscale the guidelines previously developed at local scale to the more general and wider view point of the entire Adriatic basin focusing on lowlying coastal farmlands.

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PARTNERSHIP

LEAD PARTNER

University of Padua – Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (UNIPD)

VIA VIII FEBBRAIO 1848 N 2

Padua - Italy

https://www.dicea.unipd.it/en/

The Department follows traditional methods for training technicians for expertise in the fields of transports, hydraulics and civil architecture. The Department came into being in the early 17th century and nowadays aims at being one of the leading institutions in Italy for research in the fields of civil, construction and environmental engineering, with particular focus also on interdisciplinary aspects and the applications of these disciplines.

Contact person: Paolo Salandin

e-mail: paolo.salandin@unipd.it