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[PROJECT] CLIM-RUN - Climate Local Information in the Mediterranean region: Responding to User Needs
ID: 265192
Start date: 2011-03-01, End date: 2014-02-28
CLIM-RUN aims at developing a protocol for applying new methodologies and improved modeling and downscaling tools for the provision of adequate climate information at regional to local scale that is relevant to and usable by different sectors of society (policymakers, industr...
Programme: FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Record Number: 99345
Last updated on: 2017-05-29
[REPORT SUMMARY] BEF's and biomass equations in Mediterranean tree species
Forests inventories provide useful data for the estimation of carbon stocks in forests, but this information does not cover all budgets necessary for a global carbon assessment. Nevertheless, some forest inventories offer detailed information of the aboveground carbon that may...
Programme: FP5-EESD
Record Number: 38793
Last updated on: 2006-02-28
[REPORT SUMMARY] Framework for international law and policy
The international legal and institutional context for sustainability labelling and certification is being determined by a number of international governmental and non-governmental organisations. In this context, the UN performs a prominent role, as far as it has adopted a larg...
Programme: FP5-EESD
Record Number: 33252
Last updated on: 2004-07-29
[REPORT SUMMARY] Case studies
Coffee:
The coffee case study focused FLO scheme. Coffee was the first product for which fair trade criteria were developed. The first certified fair trade coffee was launched by Max Havelaar in 1989. Since then, the market for certified coffee has progressively developed with...
Programme: FP5-EESD
Record Number: 33253
Last updated on: 2004-07-29
[REPORT SUMMARY] First detected non-LTE emissions by MIPAS
Inversion of geophysical parameters (e.g., pressure-Temperature, ozone, water vapour, methane and NO2) under non-LTE conditions have been carried out by the first time. This has been made possible with the development of highly sophisticated inversion tools and non-LTE atmosph...
Programme: FP5-EESD
Record Number: 31383
Last updated on: 2003-12-18
[REPORT SUMMARY] Framework of analysis of the compatibility of labelling and certification schemes with multilateral trade rules
From the WTO rules perspective, the development of sustainability labelling and certification schemes is mainly conditioned by the persistent legal uncertainties regarding the legitimacy of schemes based on NPR-PPMs. For the moment, this question can hardly be solved in genera...
Programme: FP5-EESD
Record Number: 33223
Last updated on: 2004-07-29
[REPORT SUMMARY] Real time analysis of volcanic data
Generically, volcanic process belongs to the class of far from equilibrium systems, characterized by a slow increase of mass/energy, at a variable rate, that is suddenly released. This release defines what is known as volcanic eruption that can be associated to a phase change....
Programme: FP5-EESD
Record Number: 35240
Last updated on: 2005-02-02
[REPORT SUMMARY] Application of space techniques to the integrated management of river basin water resources
ASTIMwR began in early 1997 from the joint effort of eight European organisations and companies, with the objective of providing water managers with truly operational applications based on Earth observation (EO) data. The end users of the ASTIMR project are managers of areas o...
Programme: FP4-ENV 2C
Record Number: 21710
Last updated on: 2001-07-09
[REPORT SUMMARY] The ALCOR model
PROBLEM: Nature reserves are usually designated through a process where conservation objectives are in conflict with the economic uses of land. Solutions are often designed for individual reserves rather than for a whole set. As a result, protected spaces trend to have a minim...
Programme: FP5-EESD
Record Number: 35172
Last updated on: 2005-07-12
[REPORT SUMMARY] Sustainable planning in Madrid
Full details are on-line at:
http://www.tigress.ac/reports/final/madrid_start.pdf
The Madrid team undertook a detailed survey of the geological, geographical, political and environmental aspects of current developments in the Madrid Autonomous Region.
This is a large area (...
Programme: FP5-EESD
Record Number: 42965
Last updated on: 2006-11-28
List retrieved on: 2017-08-02
