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Mitigating the Adverse Effects of Droughts and Water Scarcity in the times of a changing climateA Water Resource and Evapotranspiration Management PerspectiveUploaded: 9 of October, 2024

The aim of the work was to develop a water resource management guide to help develop responses to climate change induced droughts, reflecting regional and spatial differences of basic water resource endowments.

An ecosystem service overview of the Drava floodplainEcosystem Service approach to connect river dynamics, natural flow processes and landscape management examples in the floodplain of the Drava RiverUploaded: 10 of January, 2022

Analysis was prepared for the WiseDrava program - Wise water management for the conservation of riverine and floodplain habitats along the Drava River (LIFE17NAT/HU/000577)

Reducing flood risk through floodplain restoration along the Danube River and tributariesUploaded: 10 of January, 2022

The main objective of the Danube Floodplain Interreg project focuses on the improvment of transnational water management and flood risk prevention while maximizing benefits for biodiversity conservation.

Cost estimation and exploration of the regional economic aspects of the use of the legally designated right bank emergency polder of the Rába RiverUploaded: 8 of November, 2021

When an exceptionally high flood takes place on the Rába sections below Sárvár, decision-makers responsible for flood protection can choose between two defense strategies. They can opt for intensive defense on the main dike sections or use the emergency ...

Infrastructure performance indicators – Methodology design and application on Hungarian infrastructure sectorsUploaded: 4 of February, 2019

The proper functioning of the physical infrastructure sectors is essential to ensure sustainable economic growth and social welfare. The study aims to develop and apply a complex methodological framework to assess the performance and welfare effects of ...

Management of droughts and water scarcity within the nature and biodiversity legislation of the European UnionUploaded: 4 of September, 2018

As part of a larger cooperation with the Danube Region Strategy led by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, we inspected relevant EU nature and biodiversity legislation to identify how a potential drought regulation may rely on already ...

Water credit trading in KenyaUploaded: 23 of April, 2018

As part of an international consortium, REKK has reviewed the experience on water credit markets. Our literature review has focused on the water markets of Australia, USA, Chile and Oman. We also inspected if the preconditions to efficient water markets ...

Water demand management in the MENA regionUploaded: 8 of June, 2017

Our water economics team at REKK contributed to the WATERSUM project (http://watersum.rec.org/) with consultancy and capacity building activities within the field of water demand management (WDM) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

Economic expertise for the supervison cycle of the National Water Basin Management PlanUploaded: 14 of January, 2016

The REKK. AQUA team contributed to the initial ex-ante economic analysis of the National River Basin Management Plan. We prepared economic policy instrument design proposals that were incorporated into the 8. 4. 3 chapter of the NRBMP (Cross sectoral ...

The effect of the opening of the Tiszaroff flood storage reservoir on downstream flood riskDevelopment of a Monte Carlo simulation based decision support systemUploaded: 29 of September, 2015

A decision support system was developed for the Middle Tisza Region Water Directorate (Kötivizig). The flood-storage reservoir at Tiszaroff can provide significant help to avoid a potential flood catastrophe. Although the opening of the flood gates ...