Descripción del proyecto
Entender el impacto de las energías renovables en la biodiversidad
Las energías renovables desempeñan un papel crucial en la lucha contra el cambio climático. Sin embargo, sus efectos sobre la biodiversidad y los patrones espaciales mundiales aún no se conocen del todo. Además, el desarrollo de las energías renovables podría interactuar con otras presiones humanas que ya amenazan a las especies silvestres. Entender cómo se relacionan estas amenazas, así como sus factores subyacentes, puede ayudar a priorizar los esfuerzos de conservación. El equipo del proyecto THREATS, financiado con fondos europeos, estudia las repercusiones del desarrollo de las energías renovables en la biodiversidad, así como las conexiones entre este desarrollo y otras amenazas de origen humano. Trazará un mapa del impacto de las energías renovables en las especies amenazadas. En THREATS se utilizarán los datos para identificar áreas en las que se entrecruzan múltiples amenazas y se tendrán en cuenta los factores socioeconómicos que contribuyen a las amenazas en las áreas protegidas.
Objetivo
Renewable energy developments are essential to fighting climate change but we do not yet fully understand their global spatial patterns and impacts on biodiversity conservation. Moreover, they could interact with other human pressures that are already threatening wildlife species. Understanding these interactions, the underlying factor triggering these threats, and their effects on protected areas, especially in areas where more threats overlap, would help us better prioritize and optimize efforts to break free from fossil fuels while also halting the loss of biodiversity. Therefore, this project aims to improve our current knowledge of the threats that renewable energy developments represent to biodiversity and to explore and advance our understanding of the interactions with other human-induced threats to biodiversity. This project will map for the first time, the likelihood of impact of all renewable energy developments using the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of threatened species for amphibians, birds, and mammals. Together with other threat maps (agriculture, afforestation, overhunting, invasive species, pollution, and climate change), obtained from peer-reviewed public sources, this project will identify and assess the interactions between threats through a co-occurrence matrix, and identify areas where more threats overlap. Finally, it will evaluate the socio-economic factors that are triggering all these threats and their effects on protected areas in two contrasting regions, Europe and South America. This project will promote a link between conservation and energy developments, providing relevant information to nature policies, which is both timely and urgent, as human impacts have become catastrophic on biodiversity. It will also have a substantial impact on my career, as new skills in ecological modelling and global threat assessment will complement my previous experience in human-induced threats and conservation biology.
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energy
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbiodiversity conservation
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyinvasive species
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinador
1165 Kobenhavn
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