Project description
Ecosystem-based adaptation to enhance forest resilience
Forests can be destroyed through climatic events such as storms or drought, or attacked by pests and pathogens, leaving a devastated landscape and despairing local populations. The EU-funded eco2adapt project will develop the ecosystem-based adaptation framework derived from nature-based solutions and work in Living Labs located in climate hotspots in Europe and China. It will use an advanced Decision Theatre approach to investigate how to integrate disturbance and vulnerability into forest management by developing changemaking scenarios. Furthermore, it will create innovative technical, economic and governance mechanisms at a regional level, apply semantic technology to establish a knowledge base for hosting FAIR data, create a smartphone application (OneForest ToolBox) to enable users to add data on climate-resilient forests, and provide cutting-edge tools to monitor vulnerability and resilience.
Objective
In eco2adapt we will develop the Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) framework, derived from Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), that harnesses biodiversity and ecosystem services to reduce vulnerability and build social-ecological resilience to climate change. We will work in Living Labs in Europe and China, located in climate hotspots, and adopt a cutting-edge Decision Theatre approach to investigate how forest managers integrate disturbance and vulnerability into decision-making. Scenarios of how disturbance affects forest dynamics and ecosystem services at a landscape scale will be derived through modelling, and in Living Labs, stakeholders will learn how their choices affect ecosystem services in neighbouring forests. We will combine interdisciplinary knowledge from scientists and stakeholders in Europe and China to understand perception and provide incentivization for adopting EbA solutions, through local capacity-building and national policy plans. Through the same Decision Theatre methodology, we will use a capacity-building approach to create and promote innovative technical, economic and governance mechanisms at a regional level. Semantic technology will be applied to create a knowledge base for hosting FAIR data and creating a SmartPhone Application (named the OneForest ToolBox) that allows users to access and add data concerning climate-resilient species, provenances, mixtures, management techniques and ecosystem services, whilst taking into account future uncertainties about climate and societal changes. We also provide a suite of cutting-edge tools to monitor vulnerability and resilience (including invasive species and above-and below- ground biodiversity), at all levels of society – from the citizen to the policy-maker. By including tailored communication to all levels of society, we will reach out to a broad audience that has the capacity to cause positive change.
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75007 Paris
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75016 Paris
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70211 KUOPIO
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10178 Berlin
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80100 Joensuu
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13572 Marseille
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34090 Montpellier
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79098 Freiburg
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11855 ATHINA
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211 43 Malmo
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40100 JYVASKYLA
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50121 Florence
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7100 Vejle
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11030 Beograd
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15140 Lahti
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LT-44248 Kaunas
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80539 Munchen
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25280 Solsona
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500036 Brasov
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75013 PARIS
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94704 MAISONS ALFORT CEDEX
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02750 Espoo
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1159 KOBENHAVN
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8092 Zuerich
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100091 BEIJING
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100102 Beijing
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311300 HangZhou
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510650 Guangzhou
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100871 BEIJING
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410004 Changsha
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E14 3TA LONDON
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