Objective
FORESCENE will develop an analytical framework for consistent environmental sustainability scenario building (forecasting, back-casting, simulation) in areas such as water, soil, biodiversity, waste and natural resources. Problem issues and priority policy fields such as agriculture, infrastructures/land use, industry/economy will be selected in close contact with the EU Commission. The project will focus on back-casting, to identify different scenarios leading to the achievement of future targets.
FORESCENE will
- describe the chosen environmental problems, review policy objectives and indicators, and determine the cross-cutting driving forces;
- develop core elements of integrated sustainability scenarios (goal definition);
- determine measures and processes to be considered for change (pre-back-casting);
- address quantitative and qualitative parameters for measurement (parameterization);
- develop a Business-As-Usual (BAU) scenario framework and example projections (forecasting);
- develop alternative scenarios (incl. Back-casting);
- check the options for modelling, and
- work out conclusions.
To integrate the eight steps FORESCENE will organize a series of workshops to involve DG's and stakeholders, to integrate knowledge on
- cross-cutting drivers of various environmental problems and priority policy fields, and
- to define essentials for integrated sustainability scenarios in terms of goals and cross-cutting policy measures.
Further experts will be involved at various stages of the project. The project will result in recommendations for future policy development with regard to the EU's sustainability strategy and the framework for Impact Assessments and concrete proposals for the use and extension of existing simulation models.
Fields of science
Call for proposal
FP6-2004-SSP-4
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Funding Scheme
STREP - Specific Targeted Research ProjectCoordinator
WUPPERTAL
Germany