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Welcome to the Balaton Adaptation Project website!
Since 2002 the Lake Balaton Development Coordination Agency (LBDCA) has been working with domestic and international partner organizations to launch a forward looking initiative focused on sustainability problems in Hungary’s Lake Balaton region. The overall purpose of the project is to contribute to a better understanding of the Lake Balaton ecological and socio-economic system’s vulnerability and resilience arising from multiple forces of global and local change, including land use, demographic, economic and climate change and build capacity for more effective policy-making and adaptation measures in response. |
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| Following many years of water quality problems, a negative water balance induced water shortage starting in 2000 and lasting for four years. This raised and continues to raise serious sustainability concerns in the Lake Balaton area, Hungary and the region. Due to these trends sensitivity of Lake Balaton to climate change and its impacts came to the fore both for policy and science. Because of Lake Balaton’s high profile and the relative immaturity of the vulnerability and adaptation policy agenda, there is a strategic opportunity to influence the way this agenda unfolds in Hungary and other countries of the region. Besides Balaton there are also many other shallow lakes and reservoirs of significant economic and ecological importance in Hungary and the region facing similar vulnerability and adaptation problems where lessons from this initiative can be applied.
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