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In the context of climate change in the Mediterranean basin, watershed management presents an opportunity to address the need for adaptation, increasing their resilience through the implementation of technologies and measures that seek a medium-term recovery of the water cycle. There is a willingness to undertake ecological restoration on the part of the Autonomous Government of the Valencian Community, the physical environment, the atmospheric and eco-physiological processes and the role they could play are known, while there is extensive experience in forest restoration (particularly post-fire). The Mijares River basin (Teruel, Castellón) has suffered, like other Mediterranean areas, a feedback loop towards drought and desertification. In order for the water cycle to be recovered, it is necessary to address the design of ecological restoration processes in a participatory way with all the agents involved.

To identify, together with these agents, the environmental, social, cultural and economic development factors that facilitate the design of comprehensive plans that increase the resilience of watersheds to climate change and promote the multifunctionality of environmental services.

• Modelling of climate change scenarios and strategies for the restoration of environmental services. The objective of the model is to facilitate decision-making in the selection of forest species and their place of establishment, for the ecological restoration of environmental services: water cycle, carbon sequestration, biodiversity protection, soil erosion and fire prevention.
• Surveys and consultation of the local population, socio-economic agents involved: socioeconomic analysis and perception of the actors involved in the design of actions leading to the ecological restoration of environmental services and the water cycle in the Mijares Basin.
• Integration and analysis in the ARIES modelling platform, of different scenarios for the restoration of environmental services associated with different socio-economic scenarios.