Hydroclimatic extremes such as droughts and floods cause serious impact to people and the economy.  In particular, hydroclimatic extremes in transboundary river basins affect multiple states and their communities.  To better mitigate and adapt to these risks, international water cooperation needs to be better equipped with improved decision-making drawing on enhanced knowledge and information.  

This DEMOTAPE project (Designing multi-knowledge protocols to transform transboundary policies for hydroclimatic extremes) aims to establish evidence-based approaches to address infrastructure and livelihood impacts from hydroclimatic extremes and to meet the informational needs of stakeholders for improved governance.  

With an international and interdisciplinary team from the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland, we develop an environmental intelligence protocol that brings together multiple data streams from ground-based, satellite and citizen sources, models and policy support systems.  

The project findings will contribute to advancing practices of water diplomacy and policies of international water cooperation.