Project description
Growing knowledge of forest carbon sequestration
Forests are important carbon pools that continuously exchange CO2 with the atmosphere. Global climate change, however, is weakening the efficiency of forest carbon sequestration capacity. In this context, the EU-funded Skill-For.Action project will bring together forest ecology research and the applied science of forest engineering to shed new light on the carbon dynamics in forests. It will focus on maintaining high carbon sequestration potential to guarantee economic, efficient and more ecologically sound forest operations. Overall, the project’s goal is to provide high-level training and education in adaptive and integrative forest management. An interdisciplinary and intersectoral approach will be followed, combining applied research and training activities and merging the educational experience of academic and non-academic supervisors.
Objective
Global environmental and climate changes compromise forest resources in different ways, intensities and at various levels. Drought related losses in growth performance, the increase in intensity and frequency of wild fires and storms, and of biological risks are just a few of the most perceptible effects across the forests in Europe as well worldwide. Global change weakens the efficiency of forest carbon sequestration capacity and thus forestry sector ability to mitigate climate changes in the medium to long-term perspective. An innovative adaptive and integrative forest management plays a key role in driving forests to face the environmental changes and to meet both maintaining high forest carbon sequestration potential and guaranteeing economic efficient and more ecological sound forest operations. ETN Skill-For.Action integrates the fundamental research in forest ecology and applied science of forest engineering. This integration is crucial and innovative to comprehensibly understand carbon dynamics in forests in terms of feedback between carbon sequestrations and release. Overarching objective of ETN Skill-For.Action is to provide high-level training and education in adaptive and integrative forest management under global changes to a new generation of early stage researchers for a successful career in the forest-sector and natural resource management. The education follows an innovative, interdisciplinary and intersectoral approach by a specific and unique combination of applied research and training activities delivered by academic and non-academic partners to strengthen complementary soft skills. ETN Skill-For.Action will support each ESR to successfully implement their individual project through a well defined supervising strategy by merging the educational experience of the academic supervisors with the practical knowledge of the non-academic supervisors.
Fields of science
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecology
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesforestrysilviculture
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringnatural resources management
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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35122 Padova
Italy