Author(s): Despoina Charchousi; Maria P. Papadopoulou; Athina Goula
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Abstract: Groundwater Footprint (GF) could be considered as a management tool to help in groundwater management with emphasis on the environmental water needs. The parameters embedded in GF estimation are groundwater ion (C), recharge (R), and contribution to the environmental requirements (E), all essentials for the assessment of various Ecosystem Services (ES) such as water provision. The ES provided by C, R, E are closely related with the preservation of specific land uses and in parallel land uses impact C, R, E provisioning. To this framework, the present study focuses on the assessment of a) the significance of C, R, E on different types of land uses and b) the importance of specific land uses for the maintenance of C, R, E provisioning. To proceed with the assessment, a structure questionnaire using a 3-step scale is developed and filled by a pool of experts, aiming to reach consensus for each question. For the questions that consensus is not reached, experts are asked to review their answers based on group’s opinion (second round questionnaire). At this stage of the study, the first round of questionnaire has been completed and consensus is reached for 37,5% of the questions, while the second round of the assessment is ongoing.
Year: 2022