Obiettivo The focus of RECONDES is to address the mitigation of desertification processes by the means of innovative techniques using vegetation in specific landscape configurations prone to severe degradation processes. Its major objective is to produce practical guidelines on the conditions for use of vegetation in areas vulnerable to desertification, taking into account spatial variability ingeomorphological and human-driven processes related to degradation and desertification. RECONDES will combine the understanding of the mechanisms of land degradation and of the critical soil conditions necessary for maintaining and restoring soil and land quality and ecosystem health to identify how and where vegetation could be used to mitigate desertification. It will identify the conditions or thresholds, which have to be attained or retained for vegetation growth and survival andexamine where those conditions are found. It will match those conditions against the processes of degradation to identify where treatments or restoration will be most effective. It will identify innovative measures, which might be taken to create or maintain conditions. Crucially, it will examine linkages within the landscape at different scales to determine the key points for intervention. The effects of vegetation treatments will be modelled and optimal strategies produced at scales from plot tocatchment. The practical guidelines produced will be disseminated to end-users. RECONDES is being applied in relation to the marginal lands of the north Mediterranean, the areas of southern Europe which are vulnerable to or have suffered desertification. The research is divided into six major work packages based on a hierarchy of land /use units found in these areas: Reforested land, Rainfedcropland, Semi-natural and abandoned land, Hill slopes, River valleys, Catchments. Campo scientifico engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technologynatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems Parole chiave Soil erosion geomorphology vegetation Programma(i) FP6-SUSTDEV - Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems: thematic priority 6 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Argomento(i) SUSTDEV-2002-3.IV.1.a - Research on mechanisms of desertification and soil quality. Invito a presentare proposte FP6-2002-GLOBAL-1 Vedi altri progetti per questo bando Meccanismo di finanziamento STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinatore UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo University House, Winston Churchill Avenue PORTSMOUTH Regno Unito Mostra sulla mappa Collegamenti Sito web Opens in new window Costo totale Nessun dato Partecipanti (5) Classifica in ordine alfabetico Classifica per Contributo UE Espandi tutto Riduci tutto CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS Spagna Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Serrano, 117 MADRID Mostra sulla mappa Collegamenti Sito web Opens in new window Costo totale Nessun dato CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE Italia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Piazzale Aldo Moro 7 ROMA Mostra sulla mappa Collegamenti Sito web Opens in new window Costo totale Nessun dato KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN Belgio Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Oude markt 13 LEUVEN Mostra sulla mappa Collegamenti Sito web Opens in new window Costo totale Nessun dato UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM Paesi Bassi Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Spui 21 AMSTERDAM Mostra sulla mappa Collegamenti Sito web Opens in new window Costo totale Nessun dato UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN Belgio Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Place de l'Université 1 LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE Mostra sulla mappa Collegamenti Sito web Opens in new window Costo totale Nessun dato
