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VALAGUA - Valorização Ambiental e Gestão Integrada da Água e dos Habitats no Baixo GUadiana Transfronteiriço

Thematic Area
Sustainable Development and International Cooperation
Location
Mértola
SanLucar del Guadiana
Application Areas
Water Resources
Scope
R&D
Central Administration
Local or Regional Administration
Projeto financiado pelo Interreg- POCTEP

Entity

Description

Shared recognition of common ecological and heritage values, as well as their potential for sustainable development, is a priority of this Project, by environmental education and dissemination interventions, with a view to: enhancing ecosystem services, habitats conservation, enhancing local development on the basis of ecotourism, contributing to integrated cross-border management and shared resources

Objectives

  • Improve the protection and sustainable management in natural areas of Lower Guadiana river, by triple integration: territorial, sectorial and social

Results

The main expected results of the VALAGUA project are:

 

•Integration of qualitative and quantitative aspects of water management among the main users on both sides of the Guadiana Basin

 

•Integration of transboundary water management with the conservation of riparian ecosystems

 

•Integrated management of water and biodiversity by key actors and decision-makers in the contiguous territories of the Natura 2000 Network of Lower Guadiana river

 

•Eco touristic valorization of the resources

Next challenges

VALAGUA responds to a significant set of challenges and opportunities that characterize the territory of Alentejo-Algarve-Andalusia, at the level of:

 

  • Detected territorial asymmetries
  • The need to preserve and enhance the natural heritage, namely water and its role as support for ecosystem services
  • Importance of cross-border cooperation in improving water use efficiency
  • Need to foster cooperation in scientific research and shared knowledge of natural heritage