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Villarroya Gil, Fermín Ignacio

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Fermín Ignacio
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Villarroya Gil
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/81708
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Ciencias Geológicas
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Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología
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Geodinámica Externa
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    Project number: 219
    Los juegos del agua: el desafío de la gestión de las aguas subterráneas
    (2019) De Stefano, Lucia; Urquijo Reguera, Julia; Montero González, Esperanza; Bolinches Quero, Antonio; Villarroya Gil, Fermín Ignacio
    El juego tiene una duración aproximada de 2,5 horas y ayuda a despertar el interés del alumnado sobre los retos del uso y gestión de las aguas subterráneas, haciéndoles por tanto receptivos a los contenidos teóricos relacionados que se explican en las clases siguientes (medidas de gestión del agua, normativa, etc.).
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    Easier Said Than Done? The Establishment of Baseline Groundwater Conditions for the Implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Spain
    (Water Resources Management, 2013) De Stefano, Lucia; Martínez Santos, Pedro; Villarroya Gil, Fermín Ignacio; Chico, Daniel; Martínez-Cortina, Luis
    The European Union (EU) Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires EU countries to achieve good status of all their waters by 2015. This should be achieved through the implementation of river basin management plans (RBMPs), which in turn are based on water resources baseline data. While it is too soon to assess the WFD effectiveness, the lanning process has contributed to identify possible pitfalls of the WFD design and has provided an opportunity to enhance the knowledge of European water resources. Groundwater plays a strategic role in Spain’s economy and also in the maintenance of its aquatic ecosystems, making that country an excellent testing ground for getting an insight into the definition of baseline groundwater under the WFD mandate. This paper presents the results of compiling the information produced for the RBMPs to attain an overall picture at a national scale. In doing so, it examines some of the methodological and technical choices involved in the definition of a baseline for groundwater, assessing their practical consequences on groundwater management. This paper argues that having baseline figures for the RBMPs required compromises or shortcuts to be taken. Undoubtedly, the process leading to the first WFD Plans has been an extremely enriching learning process, but it leaves questions unanswered. The periodic (6 year) RBMP revision should become an opportunity to revisit and better tune the baseline conditions established during this first planning cycle.
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    Learning from experience: a systematic review of assessments of vulnerability to drought
    (Natural Hazards, 2016) González Tánago, Itziar; Urquijo, Julia; Blauhut, Veit; Villarroya Gil, Fermín Ignacio; De Stefano, Lucia
    In the last decades, there have been an increasing number of vulnerability studies undertaken in the frameworks of several schools of thought and disciplines. This spur of activity is linked to the growing awareness about the importance of shifting from a crisis-reactive approach to a proactive and preventive risk-management approach to deal with natural disasters. The severity of the impacts that drought provokes worldwide has also contributed to raise awareness about the need to improve its management. In this context, drought vulnerability assessments are the first step in the identification of underlying causes that generate drought impacts. This paper presents a systematic review of past assessments of vulnerability to drought, to enhance the understanding of vulnerability and help orientating future research in this field. Results suggest that there are important geographical and thematic gaps to be filled in the assessment of drought vulnerability. Transparency in the design and validation of results should be improved, while the availability of relevant, reliable, and updated data is still a major constraint at all levels.
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    A Methodology for the Evaluation of Water Policies in European Countries
    (Environmental Management, 2010) De Stefano, Lucia; De Pedraza Gilsanz, Javier; Villarroya Gil, Fermín Ignacio
    Periodic assessment of progress toward established policy goals is crucial to understanding whether the applied efforts are effective. In Europe, the Water Framework Directive (WFD) adopted in year 2000 set ambitious environmental objectives to be achieved by the end of 2015 through the implementation of Integrated Water Resources anagement (IWRM) principles. While at this stage it is premature to measure the impact of this Directive in terms f environmental outcomes, it is nonetheless important to develop indicators in order to monitor whether water management practices throughout Europe are aligning towards IWRM. This article presents the methodological development of the Water and Wetland Index, a comparative water policy assessment by environmental NGOs that was carried out in 2002–2003, and highlights the interest of repeating it in 2015, when the first WFD planning cycle will be completed.
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    The Guadiana basin
    (The Adaptive Water Resource Management Handbook, 2010) Llamas, M. R.; Varela Ortega, C.; Hera, A. de la; Aldaya, M. M.; Villarroya Gil, Fermín Ignacio; Martínez Santos, Pedro; Blanco Gutiérrez, I. M. M.; Carmona García, G.; Esteve Bengoechea, P.; De Stefano, Lucia; Hernandez-Mora Zapata, Nuria; Zorrilla, P.; Mysiak, Jaroslav; Henrikson, Hans Jorgen; Sullivan, Caroline; Bromley, John; Pahl-Wostl, Claudia