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SimulPast
The project mission was to develop an innovative and interdisciplinary methodological framework to model and simulate ancient societies and their relationship with environmental transformations. The project aimed to define practical guidelines for simulation in the humanities and consolidate a new research line in the use of formal modelling and simulation to investigate past human societies…
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Resilience of Indigenous Peoples’ Health care system
How do the global climatic, ecological and socio-economical changes affect the capacity of human health system to prevent the emergence of new diseases? What are the social, cultural and ecological factors that enhance or break down the capacity of human health care system to absorb disturbances while retaining its basic function and structure, i.e. to…
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Payments for Ecosystem Services: long-term Effectiveness and Motivations for the conservation of forest ecosystems (PES-EMOTIVE)
Global biodiversity loss and climate change mitigation are two of the greatest environmental challenges of our time. To partially address such challenges, Payments for Ecosystem or Environmental Services (PES) programs have disbursed billions of dollars of funding to rural communities and landowners in tropical and sub-tropical countries, conditional on the voluntary conservation of standing forests…
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Pastoral Commons in the Montenegrin Mountains and processes of Heritization (COMPAS-MED-PAT)
There is a growing scientific awareness that pastoral commons are a positive management regime vis-à-vis society and sustainable environmental governance. Nevertheless, these are undergoing swift degradation processes. Heritagization has important assets that can contribute to solving key problems faced by Mediterranean pastoral commons. Hence the main goals of the project are: To achieve this, we…
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Operationalising telecouplings for solving sustainability challenges related to land-use (COUPLED)
This project focuses on telecoupling, a concept which helps to explain drivers and outcomes of land-use change by investigating the interrelationship between different actors, drivers, and feedback over long distances. Given Europe’s large and growing land-use footprint abroad, Europe has a special responsibility to develop concepts and tools needed to achieve sustainability in an interconnected…
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On the Interface between Moroccan Agdals and the Arganeraie Biosphere Reserve
Community Conserved Areas (ICCAs) are traditional social-ecological governance systems for the collective and sustainable management of natural resources and are considered by the major international policies and programs as a key management regime. Despite this fact, today ICCAs (including Moroccan agdals) and the bio-cultural diversity they promote are experiencing a rapid process of degradation. On…
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NATure-based Urban innoVATION (NATURVATION)
Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) have the potential to respond to climate change, enhance biodiversity and improve environmental quality while contributing to economic regeneration and social well-being. Yet there is a substantial gap between the promise of NBS and their uptake. To unlock the potential of NBS for sustainable urban development, NATURVATION will take a transdisciplinary, internationally…
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Nature’s integration in cities’ hydrologies, ecologies and societies (NICHES)
NICHES will contribute to an improved design and management of urban waterscapes by exploring the potential of nature-based solutions to mitigate urban runoff, flooding and sewer overflow events, thereby protecting aquatic biodiversity. Aquatic ecosystems are under increasing pressure from urbanisation, compounded by the escalating effects of climate change. With almost 60% of Europe’s water bodies…
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Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystem Services in the Province of Barcelona within the Framework of the Territorial Information System for the Open Spaces Network (SITxell)
The main goal of this project is to map and assess ecosystem services in the Province of Barcelona and integrate them in the existing decision-support tool SITxell. This tool is used by the Barcelona Provincial Council to support municipalities in their revision of landscape and urban planning instruments and strategies. Specific objectives include:
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Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts Observation Network – LICCION
The potential of Indigenous and Local knowledge to contribute to climate change research is being investigated by the Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts (LICCI) project. Nevertheless, the LICCI research project does not sufficiently contribute to integrating these knowledge and perspectives into climate change research and policy. The LICCI Observation Network (LICCION), an EU-funded proof-of-concept…
