Descripción del proyecto
Contaminación del suelo para restaurar los ecosistemas
Europa afronta el acuciante reto de reducir la contaminación del suelo y fomentar la restauración ecológica. Las consecuencias destructivas de la contaminación del suelo, que van desde la merma de la productividad agrícola hasta el compromiso de los ecosistemas, exigen una atención inmediata. En este contexto, el equipo del proyecto EDAPHOS, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende revolucionar las prácticas de gestión del suelo. Con la misión de reducir la contaminación del suelo y potenciar la restauración, en EDAPHOS se propone un método holístico que combina soluciones basadas en la naturaleza (NBS, por sus siglas en inglés) y tecnologías avanzadas para acelerar la recuperación de las tierras contaminadas y hacer de la restauración ecológica un empeño generalizado. Mediante el desarrollo de un marco para la rehabilitación de tierras, las evaluaciones de riesgo exhaustivas y la validación de la eficacia de las estrategias de las NBS, el equipo de EDAPHOS pretende establecer un mercado de NBS autosuficiente y reproducible en la Unión Europea (UE), lo que aporta la esperanza de un futuro más saludable.
Objetivo
EDAPHOS proposes a holistic and innovative land management approach to contribute to the Mission “A Soil Deal for EU” and to its specific objective “Reduce soil pollution and enhance restoration”. EDAPHOS will develop a framework for land rehabilitation and ecological restoration of contaminated areas featuring nature-based solutions (NBS) technologies, to accelerate the recovery of contaminated lands to a healthy ecosystem status and making ecological restoration a mainstream business endeavor. EDAPHOS will improve the monitoring of contaminated soils and the understanding of precise pollution sources at selected EU regions by combining robust remote sensing tools and GIS-based methods that will be applied at representative territorial lands. Site-specific risk assessment methods and metrics, based on the TRIAD concept and considering the sources, the pathways, the exposure and effects of soil pollution, will be developed and applied on 7 case studies. EDAPHOS will perform lab and field studies to validate the technological readiness and the cost-effectiveness of NBS as effective remediation strategy for reducing soil contamination in urban, peri-urban and rural settings and land uses. EDAPHOS will assess the environmental, social and economic impacts of selected NBS sites and will develop the most suitable quantitative metrics and KPIs that depict accurately and reliably their integrated socio-environmental performance in both terms of economic benefit (e.g. growth of ecosystem services value, final phytoremediation compounds for further industrial valorization) and cost prevention (e.g. environmental footprint reduction) potentials, along with tailored ecological finance instruments for establishing a self-sustained and replicable EU NBS market. With the aim of providing data-driven tools for forecasting, analyzing and establishing quantitative relationship of multi-scale processes, artificial intelligence techniques will be implemented throughout the project.
Ámbito científico
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligence
- engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediationphytoremediation
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringremote sensing
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinador
25000 BESANCON
Francia