Pedro Monzonís, María; Solera Solera, Abel; Ferrer Polo, Francisco Javier; Estrela Monreal, Teodoro; Paredes Arquiola, Javier(Elsevier, 2015-08)
Water represents an essential element for the life of all who inhabit our planet. But the random nature of
this resource, which is manifested by the alternation of wet periods and dry periods, makes it even more precious. ...
[EN] An increase in water demands, exacerbated by climate change and the tightening of environmental
requirements, leads to a reduction in available water resources for economic uses. This situation poses
challenges for ...
[EN] Hydropower generation represents an important contribution to meeting the challenges of today's increasing world energy needs. It uses about 44% of water in Europe, and it is the main user of water in most OECD ...
Pedro Monzonís, María(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2014-10-23)
[EN] The Water Framework Directive establishes a framework for Community action in the field of
water policy whose main objective is to achieve good status of all water bodies. Its
transposition into Spanish law has tried ...
Pedro Monzonís, María(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-09-12)
[EN] New European policies established in the Blueprint (EC, 2012) propose the use of water accounting for the allocation and reservation of water resources. This course correction contrasts with the calculation of water ...
[EN] The Mediterranean region is a climate change hotspot, especially concerning issues of hydrological planning and urban water supply systems. In this context, the Jucar River Basin (Spain) presents an increase of ...
[EN] Hydroclimatic drought conditions can affect the hydrological services offered by mountain river basins causing severe impacts on the population, becoming a challenge for water resource managers in Andean river basins. ...
Pedro Monzonís, María; Ferrer Polo, Francisco Javier; Solera Solera, Abel; Estrela Monreal, Teodoro; Paredes Arquiola, Javier(ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2015-01)
[EN] One of the major difficulties in water planning is to determine the water availability in a water resource system in order to distribute water sustainably. In this paper, we analyze the key issues for determining the ...
[EN] This study focuses on a novel type of methodology which connects Pan-European data to the local scale in the field of water resources management. This methodology is proposed to improve and facilitate the decision ...
Pinilla Guizado, Kathia Lorena(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-12-14)
[ES] El cambio climático ha afectado a nivel mundial de distintas maneras, esto implica un aumento de la temperatura y otras variables. Concretamente, las previsiones sobre el cambio climático vislumbran un aumento de la ...
Lagos Castro, Iván Gerardo(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-10-19)
[ES] El desarrollo de este trabajo busca estudiar en profundidad la disponibilidad del recurso hídrico en el territorio acotado por la cuenca hidrográfica del río Turia, y en particular en los impactos que se presentarán ...
[EN] Integrated water resource management (IWRM) is facing great challenges due to growing uncertainties caused by climate change (CC), rapid socio-economic and technological changes, and population growth. In the present ...
[EN] Currently, water accounts are one of the next steps to be implemented in European River Basin Management Plans. Building water accounts is a complex task, mainly due to the lack of common European definitions and ...
Pedro Monzonís, María; Solera Solera, Abel; Ferrer Polo, Francisco Javier; Andreu Álvarez, Joaquín; Estrela Monreal, Teodoro(Elsevier, 2016)
[EN] Water planning and the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) represent the best way to help decision makers to identify and choose the most adequate alternatives among other possible ones. The System of ...