Project: Nutrient management and legislation in deltas
The aim is to test the potential of paleoenvironmental records to help setting targets for water quality standards and nutrient management in delta-dominated coastal areas under extensive anthropogenic pressure. We cross-calibrate environmental monitoring data with hydrological-nutrient model hindcasts and paleoenvironmental reconstructions of biological changes in two selected deltas. The validated sedimentary archives subsequently provide long-term (centennial) perspectives on the drivers and rate of change, and determine the system natural baseline and its variability for implementation of environmental legislation and decision-making.
Delta: Rhine-Meuse delta, the Netherlands, and Po delta, Italy
Future Deltas theme: Understanding drivers, Optimizing solutions
Funding: Future Deltas Call 2015
Duration: 2016
Researchers: Dr. Francesca Sangiorgi, Dr. Timme Donders, Prof. dr. ir. Lex Bouwman, Prof. dr. Jack Middelburg, Dr. Elisabeth Addink, Dr. Andrea Keessen
