Objective
Based on a better understanding of terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem functioning ALARM will develop and test methods and protocols for the assessment of large-scale environmental risks in order to minimise negative direct and indirect human impacts. Research will focus on assessment and forecast of changes in biodiversity and in structure, function, and dynamics of ecosystems. This relates to ecosystem services and includes the relationship between society, economy and biodiversity. In particular, risks arising from climate change, environmental chemicals, biological invasions and pollinator loss in the context of current and future European land use patterns will be assessed. There are an increasing number of case studies on the environmental risks subsequent to each of these impacts. This yields an improved understanding on how these act individually and affect living systems. Whereas the knowledge on how they act in concert is poor and ALARM will be the first research initiative with the critical mass needed to deal with such aspects of combined impacts and their consequences. Risk assessments in ALARM will be hierarchical and examine a range of organisational (genes, species, ecosystems), temporal (seasonal, annual, decadal) and spatial scales (habitat, region, continent) determined by the appropriate resolution of current case studies and databases. Socio-economics as a cross-cutting theme will contribute to the integration of driver-specific risk assessment tools and methods and will develop instruments to communicate risks to biodiversity toned users, and indicate policy options to mitigate such risks The ALARM consortium combines the expertise of 53 partners from 26 countries (14 EU, 7 NAS, Israel, Switzerland, and 3 INCO states). ALARM encompasses 7 Sees as full partners with central responsibilities and with a share of more than 10% of the project resources.
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesfreshwater biology
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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Call for proposal
FP6-2002-GLOBAL-1
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Funding Scheme
IP - Integrated ProjectCoordinator
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Germany
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Participants (68)
AARHUS C
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EDINBURGH
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BOURGAS
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WALLINGFORD, BERKS
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MIKLAVZ NA DRAVSKEM POLJU
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LOMIANKI
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ROMA
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BELLATERRA (BARCELONA)
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ZURICH
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TAPACHULA CHIAPAS
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TALLINN
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GUATEMALA
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HELSINKI
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LA PAZ
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GoTTINGEN
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TRIPPSTADT
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HELSINKI
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BELGRADE
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PARIS
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CLUJ-NAPOCA
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PRUHONICE
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NOVOSIBIRSK
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KRAKOW
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BEIJING
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MENDOZA
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LOS BANOS
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LEUVEN
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KLAIPEDA
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LA1 4YQ LANCASTER
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117 LUND
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- BALLINA, KILLALOE, CO CLARE
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HALLE/SAALE
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ROSKILDE
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HUNTINGDON
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ODESSA
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LEIPZIG
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SOFIA
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POTSDAM
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STROMBEEK-BEVER
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MINSK
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VIENNA
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ST. PETERSBURG
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STOCKHOLM
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UPPSALA
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TARTU
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LONDON
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READING
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UMEA
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ALBACETE
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CONCEPCION
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BAYREUTH
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BELLATERRA
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LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE
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BERN
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EVORA
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HAIFA
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HANNOVER
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LEEDS
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STELLENBOSCH
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MYTILENE
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VERSAILLES
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WIEN
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HESLINGTON, YORK
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NOVI SAD
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KRAKOW
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UTRECHT
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KRASNOYARSK
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ST. PETERSBURG
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