KLIV - Climate-land-water changes and integrated water resource management in coastal regions

KLIV is an inter-disciplinary virtual research centre, linking scientists and their research at Stockholm University, the Royal Institute of Technology and the Linnaeus University, along with partners at the Nova Center for University Studies, Research & Development, and the private company Ecoloop. KLIV also involves a wider network of stakeholders from Swedish water authorities, municipalities and other interest organizations, and different international research networks.

KLIV aims to bridge science and management of water systems based on the unique competence profile of the project partners, including their site-specific applications to and novel methodological developments from both field and model investigations at the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory (HRL) and wider Oskarshamn coastal region. These site investigations are further linked to more general, national and international, process, model and field investigations and applications of importance for water resource management worldwide – see for instance GWEN - Global Wetland Ecohydrology Network: An Agora for Scientists and Study Sites. 
 

Main aims and reserach questions

KLIV investigates critical questions for sustainable management of water resources, with main geographical focus on coastal regions. The Äspö HRL and wider Oskarshamn coastal region are main KLIV investigation sites, in addition to the wider Swedish Water Management Districts of Southern and Northern Baltic Proper, and hydrological catchments in other regions and parts of the world. Main research questions, investigated across the different study sites, catchments and regions, include:

- What are the time developments and spatial characteristics of regional climate and other environmental changes and their effects on water resources, and the anthropogenic loads of excess nutrients and pollutants to inland and coastal waters?
- What regional water resource changes (water availability/quality, flood/drought risks) should society prioritize and plan for adapting to?
- What measures in the landscape and what stakeholder behavior-participation changes can contribute to efficiently reducing anthropogenic nutrient and pollutant loads, and how much reduction can possibly be achieved at different times and landscape/coastline locations?

Based on the answers to these questions and with its stakeholder network, KLIV will provide new insights and knowledge on water systems and their management, and develop decision-support methods and tools for efficient monitoring and mitigation of eutrophication and pollution, and adaptation to climate and other environmental changes.

Projects and Publications

Here you can find ongoing projects and publications with connection to the KLIV project

Read more

Sea's pollution hotspots' missed (BBC News) 

Skilj inte på vatten och vatten (UNT)

Rapport om föroreningsolyckor (Stockholms Universitet)

Så kan Sverige slippa en miljökatastrof (Naturvetarna)

Participants

Prof. Georgia Destouni, Stockholm University (project leader and main project contact)
Prof. Vladimir Cvetkovic, the Royal Institute of Technology
Prof. Berit Balfors, the Royal Institute of Technology 
Prof. Bo Olofsson, the Royal Institute of Technology
Prof. Mats Åström, the Linnaues University
Dr. Jerker Jarsjö, Stockholm University 
Dr. Anna Augustsson, the Linnaues University
Dr. Marcus Laaksoharju, Nova R&D
Dr. Kristina Lundberg, Ecoloop