Project description
Developing sustainable land use solutions
Addressing the overexploitation and unsustainable management of land across Europe is essential for addressing the climate and biodiversity crises. The EU-funded MOSAIC project is working to understand and influence how land across Europe is managed. To that end, it will study how land use decisions are made and to what extent climate change and biodiversity issues are currently incorporated. The project team will work with local people and organisations in six case study locations to establish Policy Labs, each one of which will develop robust policy options. Then, state-of-the-art modelling will be used to explore the impact of these different policies. Project results will be made available online through a series of tools, which will support land use decision makers in developing and implementing innovative and effective policies.
Objective
Urgent and concerted action can stop and reverse unsustainable land use and the over-exploitation of land resources. This will however require rapid, simultaneous and coordinated action by a diversity of land use decision makers. MOSAIC aims therefore to achieve the following objectives:
1. To gain a comprehensive understanding of the motivations and drivers behind land use decisions (e.g. cultural factors, social identities, cognitive frameworks, market prices, legal frameworks, etc.), including their relative importance and interactions, within and between relevant governance levels, ranging from individual land managers to supra-national organisations.
2. To gain a thorough understanding of the awareness of key land use decision makers about climate change, biodiversity loss and renewable energy challenges, and their willingness to address these challenges.
3. To characterise future land use patterns based on spatial, social and economic models that integrate key insights into the motivations and drivers behind land use related decisions and the result of these decisions in causing displacement effects, i.e. indirect land use changes in other parts of the world.
4. To support policy design and implementation for climate change, renewable energy and biodiversity, by means of innovative cost-effective instruments and approaches co-created in policy labs contributing to and elaborating on MOSAIC’s research results in a transdisciplinary way.
5. To develop an interactive digital learning environment, embedded within a digital toolbox comprising proven technologies and approaches consistent with long-term European sustainability goals and strategies to support land use decision processes at governance levels ranging from local to supra-national scales.
Interdisciplinary SSH research linked to state-of-the-art land use modelling will be core to this project, and will be embedded in a transdisciplinary research approach based on policy labs.
Fields of science
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energy
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencessoil sciencesland-based treatment
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
2400 Mol
Belgium
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Participants (16)
76131 Karlsruhe
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7000 673 Evora
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1012WX Amsterdam
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5071 BH Udenhout
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1210 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1165 Kobenhavn
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5038 JL Tilburg
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1349 017 Lisboa
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1099 085 Lisboa
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75007 Paris
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9820 Merelbeke
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1053 Budapest
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1141 Budapest
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4000 Roskilde
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Partners (3)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
8092 Zuerich
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
8903 Birmensdorf
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
EH8 9YL Edinburgh
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