PESERA-DESMICE: Land management evaluation model

Table of Contents

1. Authors
2. Summary
3. Acronyms
4. Introduction
5. Coarse-scale model description
   1. The PESERA model: summary
   2. Alternative approaches to assessing soil erosion
   3. Process representation in PESERA
   4. Extensions of PESERA
   5. Adapting PESERA
   6. Assessment at catchment scales
6. Cost-effectiveness modelling
   1. Step 1
   2. Step 2
   3. Step 3
   4. Step 4
   5. Step 5
   6. Step 6
   7. Step 7
   8. Step 8
   9. Step 9
   10. Step 10
   11. Step 11
   12. Step 12
7. Agent-Based modelling in Spain
   1. Phase 1
   2. Phase 2
   3. Phase 3
   4. Phase 4
   5. Phase 5
   6. Phase 6
8. Input-Output modelling in Spain
   1. Model construction
   2. Scenario analyses
9. References

Assessment at catchment scales

Work is ongoing to develop ways to calibrate/validate/evaluate PESERA within the DESIRE project. To do this, K.U. Leuven (Partner 2) developed a database with sediment export rates from river catchments in Europe, the Mediterranean World and the regions of the DESIRE study site areas outside Europe. The general objective of this sediment yield (SY) database in WB5 is to allow the calibration and validation of the (adapted) PESERA model and provide a framework to evaluate mitigation strategies at the catchment scale, considering their effects on the total sediment export. The established sediment export database allows for comparison of erosion rates, predicted by the PESERA model, with actual sediment export rates. This comparison will serve as a basis indication where eventual other sediment sources are important and where additional attention needs to be given to the PESERA model. This work will be reported fully in Deliverable 5.3.1.