1 серпня 2024 року
The National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (NUBiP of Ukraine) is one of the partners of the Path4Med Horizon European project “Demonstrating Innovative Pathways Addressing Water and Soil Pollution in the Mediterranean Agro-Hydro-System”, and it is a leader of Demonstration site (DS) 3 (Ukraine) “Future pathways for zero pollution in the Dnipro Basin under emerging challenges and threats”. NUBIP leads of this DS, focusing on zero pollution pathways in the Dnipro Basin, including water quality monitoring, soil assessment, and real-time process-based environmental modeling to address emerging challenges.
Scale: Dnipro River Basin: reservoirs and rivers.
Tools: monitoring water quality to support modeling of future pathways for zero pollution in the Dnipro Basin under emerging challenges and threats.
The Ukrainian site includes three main cases:
(1) cost-benefit analyses: to evaluate the economic cost and benefits of different strategies to address water scarcity at the farm scale, this case contributes to WP 2 (inputs to the project solutions and practices overview that are based on Nature-Based Solution approaches);
(2) water monitoring tools and soil assessments under climate change in the post-war recovery at the sub-catchment scale (Dnipro River Basin) focusing on identifying indicators of water and soil pollutants, agricultural influences, and needs of agricultural users (Fig. 1); this case contributes to WP 3 (climate and water monitoring datasets), WP 4 (optimize soil and water management);
(3) water modeling: to investigate the modeling pathways for zero pollution (based on Green Deal Targets on nutrient reduction) under climate change in the post-war recovery in the Dnipro River, this case to contribute WP 4 (Integrated modeling on different scales with solutions) and WP 6 (integrated multi-scale agroecosystem modeling).
