Climate change and land use change a multi-risk assessment of freshwater ecosystem services

In a study recently published on Science of the Total Environment by CMCC researchers Vuong Pham (lead author of the study), Silvia Torresan, Andrea Critto and Antonio Marcomini, the impacts of climate change and human activities on freshwater services have been assessed. Researchers proposed a conceptual framework and a set of indicators for assessing the above-mentioned impacts while checking their applicability to the provisioning services of two well-known case studies, namely the Po River basin (Italy) and the Red River basin (Vietnam).
More in detail, these tools provide the basic instruments to identify and classify the main stressors and impacts of global drivers (e.g. climate change and human activities) on freshwater ecosystem services, while conducting a risk assessment.