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PIPF 2024
Personal Investigador Predoctoral en Formación (PIPF) 2024. Research fellowship from Comunidad de Madrid.
Project Info
Call: Convocatoria 2024 de ayudas de la Comunidad de Madrid para la contratación de personal investigador predoctoral en formación.
Project starting date: 1 january 2026
Project end date: 31 december 2029
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Introduction
Water scarcity and climate change are increasingly challenging the capacity of societies to achieve sustainable and equitable economic development. These pressures are particularly complex because water systems are shaped not only by hydrological processes, but also by human decisions, economic incentives, and adaptive responses from water users.
This project addresses this challenge by developing an integrated socio-hydrological modelling framework that dynamically links hydrological and economic systems. The research will assess how alternative water management policies perform under climatic and socioeconomic uncertainty, with particular attention to feedbacks between water availability, irrigation decisions, economic outcomes, and environmental sustainability.
By combining hydrological modelling, microeconomic analysis, and stakeholder engagement, the project aims to generate robust evidence to support more adaptive, resilient, and equitable water governance.
Objetive
To develop an integrated dynamic socio-hydrological modelling framework that supports the design of robust, sustainable, and equitable water management policies under climate and socioeconomic uncertainty.
Methodology
The research will use an integrated dynamic socio-hydrological modelling approach
First, a hydrological model will be developed and calibrated to simulate streamflow, reservoir dynamics, irrigation demand, and sectoral water availability.
Second, a microeconomic model will represent irrigators’ adaptive decisions, including crop choices, irrigation behaviour, and responses to water scarcity or policy changes.
Both models will be dynamically linked to capture feedbacks between water availability, users’ decisions, economic outcomes, and environmental flows. Alternative water management policies will then be tested under climate and socioeconomic scenarios.
Results will be evaluated using indicators such as water security, agricultural production, economic performance, equity, and river health, and translated into decision-support outputs for policymakers and water users
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