Descrizione del progetto
Rilanciare l’agroforestazione per la mitigazione dei cambiamenti climatici
Di fronte alla crescente emergenza climatica, le strategie di utilizzo sostenibile del territorio risultano sempre più essenziali. Tra di esse, l’agroforestazione si distingue come una pratica consolidata nei paesi europei, in grado di offrire notevoli benefici in ambito rurale. Con il sostegno del programma di azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie, il progetto RhECAST si propone di affrontare i cambiamenti climatici esplorando le interazioni esistenti tra sostenibilità e patrimonio paesaggistico rurale. Concentrandosi sulla pianura padano-veneta, un punto caldo di inquinamento atmosferico, RhECAST combina archeologia del paesaggio, modellazione computerizzata e geochimica archeologica del suolo e sfrutta dati storici a livello agroforestale per tracciare un percorso verso una gestione sostenibile del paesaggio, in grado di favorire la mitigazione dei cambiamenti climatici. Il progetto dispone inoltre del potenziale per essere replicato in regioni europee simili, come Germania, Spagna e Portogallo.
Obiettivo
With the ongoing climate emergency and nations’ commitments to meet net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, there is a heightened need to contrast climate change through sustainable land-use (LU) strategies. Agroforestry (AF) has existed since ancient times in European countries, and it has been recognised as one of the most beneficial rural LU systems. The RhECAST (Rural landscape hEritage and CArbon sequeSTration) project aims to develop a new interdisciplinary approach to investigate the interactions between sustainability and rural landscape heritage with particular reference to CO2 sequestration over the long term. The project will take an interdisciplinary approach that combines landscape archaeology (HLC - Historical Landscape Characterisation), computer-based modelling (MSD - Multi-Sector Dynamics) and archaeological soil geochemistry (ASG), and it will focus on one of the main European hot spots of atmospheric pollution, the Po - Venetian Plain (PVP - Italy). The main project innovation will be to develop an MSD model using HLC data to determine which would be the effect on climate change mitigation by recasting the current PVP’s industrial agriculture with historical AF. ASG will be essential to constrain the MSD model results leading to significatively more precise outcomes of past and potential future CO2 sequestration. Thus, the RhECAST project aims at modelling CO2 sequestration rate of historical AF to inform sustainable landscape management plans that will maximise climate change mitigation whilst preserving the regional cultural identity. By applying a range of innovative and interdisciplinary techniques, the project will be able to develop a model that could be potentially extended in other European regions with similar historical and environmental characteristics (e.g. Dehesa - Spain; Montado - Portugal; Plužiny - Czech Republic; Streuobst - Germany).
Campo scientifico
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeochemistry
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- humanitieshistory and archaeologyarchaeology
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- social sciencespolitical sciencesgovernment systems
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global FellowshipsCoordinatore
20122 Milano
Italia