Descripción del proyecto
Técnicas innovadoras para la gestión del fósforo
Las prácticas agrícolas actuales sobreexplotan y desperdician las reservas de fósforo (P) de la Tierra, lo que deriva en grandes flujos de P hacia las aguas superficiales que degradan los ecosistemas. Dado que estas prácticas utilizan recursos valiosos de P y contaminan el medio ambiente, la Unión Europea ha concebido un Plan de acción para la economía circular que tiene como objetivo avanzar hacia una economía circular del P. Esto requiere nuevas colaboraciones interdisciplinares que conformarán la gobernanza del P al introducir nuevas técnicas de gestión del P. El proyecto RecaP, financiado con fondos europeos, capacitará a una nueva generación de especialistas en P para que se conviertan en «intermediarios del conocimiento» a través de compartimentos estancos disciplinares a fin de garantizar cambios transformadores en la sostenibilidad del P en la Unión Europea. Para ello, se formará a investigadores noveles en la captura y el reciclaje de P de sistemas de aguas residuales y agua dulce, así como en técnicas innovadoras de recuperación de P y restauración de ecosistemas de agua dulce.
Objetivo
Phosphorus (P) is a vital input for agricultural production. Yet, current agricultural practices are overexploiting and wasting the earth´s P reserves, which are needed to meet the food demand of a growing human population. Currently, there is a large flow of P from mineable P rock through agricultural production systems to surface waters, where eutrophication severely deteriorates ecosystems functioning. Hence, P is polluting the environment, while at the same time valuable P resources are lost. This is the global P challenge! A challenge of planetary dimensions with potentially dramatic consequences for humans. Through its circular Economy Action Plan, the EU provides the regulatory framework to develop an economy where the value of products, materials and resources is maintained for as long as possible. Important steps towards a circular P economy includes establishing new interdisciplinary partnerships for creating strategies towards radical restructuring of P governance and for developing novel, interdisciplinary P management solutions involving multi-stakeholder participation at regional and global scales. RecaP will address these needs by creating a new generation of P specialists to become ‘knowledge brokers’ across disciplinary silos with their interdisciplinary skills, experience and networks, ensuring transformative changes in P sustainability in the EU. RecaP will not just explore the technical aspects of the global P challenge, but also where such solutions can be implemented in a way that is socially, economically, and environmentally acceptable. ESRs will focus on capture and recycling of P from wastewater and freshwater systems, novel P recovery techniques, strategies to improve crop utilization of P, novel freshwater restoration techniques, as well as barriers and enablers to policy and economic transformation to support recycling. All activities are connected to one another in order to create novel insights that can help create new P governance.
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecycling
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processes
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
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MSCA-ITN - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN)Coordinador
5230 Odense M
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