Research

How does climate change affect the quality of our rivers? What measures are necessary in order to maintain their quality? What are the appropriate structures, processes and instruments for an integrative Swiss water policy? How can the transition from a sectorial to an integrative water policy be designed? These and other questions are addressed by the eight research projects within the NRP61 Sustainable water management since spring 2010.

Research projects

• Sustainable water infrastructure planning
• Integrated management of river water quality
• Integrated water governance with adaptive capacity in Switzerland
• Riverbank filtration under climate change scenarios
• Groundwater and climate change: Analysis of historical data
• Groundwater resources under climate change scenarios
• Effects of climate change on mountain streams
• Effects of climate change on alpine flood runoff