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Decision Support for the Supply of Ecosystem Services under Global Change

Descripción del proyecto

Salvaguardar los ecosistemas forestales

Los ecosistemas forestales son fundamentales para el bienestar humano, además de ser hábitats críticos para la biodiversidad. Sin embargo, están expuestos a presiones ambientales, económicas y sociales que afectan a su salud y resiliencia. En este sentido, el proyecto financiado con fondos europeos DecisionES pretende impulsar la colaboración en materia de investigación entre ocho organizaciones europeas y diez americanas que participan en el desarrollo y la aplicación de métodos de apoyo a la toma de decisiones para la prestación de servicios ecosistémicos. En el proyecto, basado en la experiencia multidisciplinar de alto nivel de estas organizaciones, se trabajará para integrar los métodos de planificación de la gestión operativa, táctica y estratégica de los ecosistemas forestales y la prestación de servicios ecosistémicos sólidos.

Objetivo

Pressures on forest ecosystems are very likely to increase as a consequence of socioeconomic and demographic trends. A growing population will demand more products (e.g. wood) to be extracted from forest ecosystems. At the same time, these harvesting activities and their interactions with global change drivers will impact the sustainability of the supply of a wider range of non-provisioning services (e.g. wildfire protection, water, and biodiversity). The integrity of ecosystems must be safeguarded when developing harvesting activities, and yet this is further complicated by the occurrence of natural disturbances such as wildfires and droughts, etc. New decision support approaches are needed that can cope with this challenge.

European and the American experiences with the development and application of decision support approaches for the provision of ecosystem services (ESs), offer a solid base for continued improvement in the efficiency and effectiveness of forest management in the context of global change (e.g. responding to changes in demographics, socioeconomics, and climatic conditions). This provided the rationale for a project that will help to strengthen research collaboration through active networking and staff exchange between 8 European organizations and 10 American organizations that are leaders in these fields.

This project will build from the top-level multidisciplinary expertise (wildfire ecology and management, wildfire behaviour simulation, hydrology, process-based modelling, biodiversity, wildlife management, ecology, water services, operations research, management science, stakeholder engagement, forest ecosystem management planning methods, supply chain management methods and decision support systems) in these organizations to address the integration of operational, tactical and strategic forest ecosystem management planning levels and potentiate the supply of ecosystem services at various spatial and temporal scales.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural.

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Coordinador

CONSORCI CENTRE DE CIENCIA I TECNOLOGIA FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 561 200,00
Dirección
CTRA SANT LLORENC DE MORUNYS KM 2
25280 Solsona
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Región
Este Cataluña Lleida
Tipo de actividad
Research Organisations
Enlaces
Coste total
€ 593 400,00

Participantes (8)

Socios (10)