Objective
From a technical point of view, LIFE FORECAST is aimed at 'knowledge transfer and technical assistance' and allowing much more accurate environmental information. Long range of data collected in the frame of international programmes has been left without required analysis and interpretation: the transcription of scientific observations into environmental policy and management is compromising. LIFE FORECAST has been designed to make the best use of existing data and research, focusing on knowledge transfer for maximum profit and minimum cost. From a practical viewpoint, LIFE FORECAST will combine the use of advanced technologies (remote sensing and cartography) as well as current methods (based on international and national standards) in order to determine the healthy evolution of forests and ecosystems exposed to air pollution. A combination of current and advanced observation methods on a testing ground (Carelia's Isthmus) will permit the results to be extrapolated to other, larger areas. Doing so, LIFE FORECAST will increase the efficiency of the ecological survey and decrease the costs and duration of fieldwork for future campaigns. Moreover, data collected since 1990 in the framework of UN/ECE programmes permits the following of bio diversity changes in space and time and thus to point out endangered species, threatened areas and unexpected changes. Results made from these observations will help to clarify the current status: annual losses and changes due to pollution will be calculated and will help to enhance adoption of European basic principles aimed at achievement of sustainable development. LlFE FORECAST's methodology can then be re-applied to benefit all areas involved in the UN/ECE programme in Russia.
Among many other kinds of threat, the impact of air pollution appears to be the main problem caused by human activities over forested areas and natural ecosystems within the Leningrad Region. Being of economic as well as social and ecological importance, these eco-systems contribute to the current richness of the Region, providing inhabitants of many towns (including Saint-Petersburg) with leisure opportunities, wood, chemicals and edible products. Some of the forested areas are the product of European heritage: they have been left untouched in their natural old-growth state since the Second World War. Until now the ill-effects of pollution have been underestimated despite scientific studies. Data has been collected from many different sources, but so far no integrated analysis has been conducted to access the deterioration dynamics of the forests and ecosystems. LIFE FORECAST has been elaborated as a tool permitting such an integrated approach, employing both the analysis of scientific environmental monitoring and geographic based information.
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Coordinator
191186 St Petersburg
Russia
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