Linking pan-european landcover change to pressures on biodiversity

Objective

The European environment is continually undergoing change caused by a combination of socio-economic and climatic processes. To protect the environment and ensure sustainable use of natural resources a wide variety of national and international legal mechanisms have been established which in their turn have spurred on a wide range of environmental monitoring activities. Today Europe urgently needs to consolidate these monitoring efforts. The GMES initiative aims at achieving this' European capacity for Global Monitoring for the Environment and Security' by2008. This project will help realize this ambitious goal. The focus of the project is to develop a standardised product that will be extendable to Europe. The product will link measures of historical and recent land cover change to pressures on biodiversity and is aimed at the EU-user community concerned with the impact of land cover/use changes on the environment and biodiversity.

Programme(s)

• FP5-EESD - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002"

Topic(s)

• 1.1.4.-2. - Key action Global Change, Climate and Biodiversity

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

Address

Monks Wood, Abbots Ripton
PE28 2LS Huntingdon
United Kingdom

Participants (7)

ALTERRA B.V.

Netherlands

Address

Droevendaalsesteeg 3A
6700 AA Wageningen

CENTRE DE RECERCA ECOLOGIA I APLICACIONS FORESTALS

Spain

Address

Univ. Autonoma De Barcelona - Edifici C
08193 Bellaterra

G.I.M. - GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION MANAGEMENT N.V.

Belgium

Address

5,Interleuvenlaan 5, Researchpark Haasrode
3001 Heverlee

GISAT SRO

Czechia

Address

Charkovska 7
101 00 Praha 101

INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY OF THE SLOVAK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Slovakia

Address

Stefanikova N°3
81499 Bratislava

THE FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Finland

Address

Unioninkatu 40A
00170 Helsinki

UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG

Germany

Address

Moorweidenstrasse, 18
20148 Hamburg