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. Fields of science natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencessoil sciencesland-based treatmentnatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems 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 Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL EU contribution No data Address Monks Wood, Abbots Ripton PE28 2LS HUNTINGDON United Kingdom See on map Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ALTERRA B.V. Netherlands EU contribution No data Address DROEVENDAALSESTEEG 3A 6700 AA WAGENINGEN See on map Total cost No data CENTRE DE RECERCA ECOLOGIA I APLICACIONS FORESTALS Spain EU contribution No data Address Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona - Edifici C 08193 BELLATERRA See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data G.I.M. - GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION MANAGEMENT N.V. Belgium EU contribution No data Address 5,Interleuvenlaan 5, Researchpark Haasrode 3001 HEVERLEE See on map Total cost No data GISAT SRO Czechia EU contribution No data Address Charkovska 7 101 00 PRAHA 101 See on map Total cost No data INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY OF THE SLOVAK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Slovakia EU contribution No data Address Stefanikova n°3 81499 BRATISLAVA See on map Total cost No data THE FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE Finland EU contribution No data Address Unioninkatu 40A 00170 Helsinki See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG Germany EU contribution No data Address Moorweidenstrasse, 18 20148 HAMBURG See on map Total cost No data