ECOsystem services for resilient and sustainable cities: an ecohydrological approach for Green Urban Spaces

Información del proyecto

ECO.G.U.S.

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 701914

DOI

10.3030/701914

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 22 Febrero 2016

Fecha de inicio 15 Agosto 2016

Fecha de finalización 14 Noviembre 2018

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coste total

€ 197 720,10

Aportación de la UE

€ 197 720,10

Coordinado por

POLITECNICO DI TORINO
Italy

Objetivo

For the first time in recorded history the majority of people live in cities and the increasing urbanization modifies their mass, momentum, and energy budgets: in the next decades redevelopment, densification, population increase and demographic shift, as well as climate change will potentially impact the production and consumption of urban ecosystem services.
Among the various ecosystem services the ECO.G.U.S. proposal focuses on Green Urban Spaces (GUS). Under the framework of socio-ecohydrology, the ECO.G.U.S. project main goal is to develop scientific tools to quantify the GUS sustainability and their benefits as ecosystem services. The proposed scientific tools will generate guidelines and best management practices with the aim of improving the GUS quality and quantity as well as the current management practices.
To address the aforementioned challenges, the objectives of the project are:
• to perform a SWOT analysis of GUS typologies with respect to the urban water cycle components, including biophysical, structural and social factors;
• to introduce a new dynamical ecohydrological model coupling the dynamics of water, vegetation, energy and nutrients in an urban environment with the stochastic components, thresholds and nonlinearities associated to unpredictability of the hydrological drivers and to the stronger human feedbacks on the hydrosphere and ecosystems;
• to frame the problem of urban water management in GUS management using the theory of optimal stochastic control;
• to define new guidelines for GUS management;
• to lay the foundations of the first EU research group in urban ecohydrology.
ECO.G.U.S. project represents one of the first applications of the stochastic ecohydrological approach and the optimal stochastic control to an urban context. The cooperation between high-level institutions (POLITO and DUKE) will help EU and US urban regions to better deal with the shocks and bombshells that will result from climate changes in the next futur

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

• ciencias naturales › matemáticas › matemáticas puras › análisis matemático › ecuaciones diferenciales
• ciencias naturales › matemáticas › matemáticas aplicadas › sistemas dinámicos
• ciencias naturales › ciencias biológicas › ecología › ecosistemas
• ciencias naturales › ciencias de la tierra y ciencias ambientales conexas › ciencias de la atmósfera › climatología › cambios climáticos
• ciencias naturales › matemáticas › matemáticas aplicadas › modelo matemático

Programa(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PROGRAMA PRINCIPAL
  
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
  

Tema(s)

• MSCA-IF-2015-GF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-GF)
  

Régimen de financiación

MSCA-IF-GF - Global Fellowships

Convocatoria de propuestas

H2020-MSCA-IF-2015

Coordinador

POLITECNICO DI TORINO

• Aportación neta de la UEn: € 197 720,10
• Dirección: CORSO DUCA DEGLI ABRUZZI 24 ; 10129 Torino ; Italia
• Región: Nord-Ovest › Piemonte › Torino
• Tipo de actividad: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Coste total: € 197 720,10

Socios (1)

Socio

DUKE UNIVERSITY

Estados Unidos

• Aportación neta de la UEn: € 0,00
• Dirección: ALLEN BUILDING 207 ; 27708 Durham Nc
• Tipo de actividad: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Coste total: € 107 581,50