FP6 - GOCE 003874 SENSOR - Sustainability Impact Assessment: Tools for Environmental, Social and Economic Effects of Multifunctional Land Use in European Regions

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Type of Project	Integrated Project
Contract No	FP6 - GOCE 003874
Total Cost	12,350 KEuro
EC Contribution	9,300 KEuro
Start Date	23-12-2004
Duration	47 Months

Abstract

Sustainability of land use in European regions is a central point of policy and management decisions at different levels of governance. Implementation of European policies designed to promote and protect multifunctional land use requires the urgent development of robust tools for the assessment of different scenarios' impacts on the environmental and socio-economic sustainability.

The technical objective of SENSOR is to build, validate and implement sustainability impact assessment tools (SIAT), including databases and spatial reference frameworks for the analysis of land and human resources in the context of agricultural, regional and environmental policies. The scientific challenge is to establish relationships between different environmental and socio-economic processes as characterised by indicators considered to be quantitative measures of sustainability.

Scenario techniques will be used within an integrated modelling framework, reflecting various aspects of multifunctionality and their interactions. The focus will be on European sensitive regions, particularly those in accession countries, since accession poses significant questions for policy makers regarding the socio-economic and environmental effect of existing and proposed land use policies. The project will utilise the statistical and spatial data continuously collected by European and regional agencies.

SENSOR will deliver novel solutions for integrated modelling, spatial and temporal scaling and aggregation of data, selection of indicators, database management, analysis and prediction of trends, education and implementation.

The project will combine, and test, a comprehensive set of analytical tools regarding rural land use, that operate at different spatial and temporal scales, to see if these models can be integrated, and at the same time remain accurate in their previsions. An important task for the project is to operationlize the concept of "Multifunctional Land Use", which shortly means landscape not only producing agricultural and forestry products but also producing a series of products (e.g. energy, clean water) and services (recreation, aesthetic experiences, biodiversity).

Coordinator

ZALF (Berlin), Germany

Project Integration

LUCSUS and Department of Chemical Engineering, Lund, Sweden.

Partners

• Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape and Land Use Research, Germany
• Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Germany
• Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences, HU Berlin, Germany
• Muenchen Chair of forest yield science, Germany
• AT ARC-sys ARC systems research GmbH, Austria
• Vienna Department of Conservation Biology, Vegetation and Landscape Ecology, Austria
• Institutes of Soil Science and of Forest Growth Research, Austria
• Swiss Federal Institute of Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Switzerland
• National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark
• Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, Denmark
• Department of Agricultural Systems Danish Inst. of Agricultural Sciences, Denmark
• Tartu University Tartu, Estonia
• European Forest Institute, Finland
• CEMAGREF Groupement de Grenoble, France
• Centre d'Observation Economique, France
• Institute of Environmental Sciences University of Western Hungary, Hungary
• Institute of Environmental Management, Szent István University, Hungary
• IIASA International Institute for Applied System Analysis
• Dept. of Agriculture and resource Economics of Florence University, Italy
• Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), Ispra, Italy
• Plan Making and Policy Development Unit, Malta Environment and Planning Authority, Malta
• Alterra Green World Research, the Netherlands
• Agricultural Economics Research Institute, the Netherlands
• Environmental Systems Analysis Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
• Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation Pulawy, Poland
• Institute of Landscape Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
• Lund University, Sweden
• Social Research Unit Forest Research, UK
• Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, UK
• National Environmental Research Centre, Lancaster Research Station, UK
• Dept. of Economics and International Development, University of Bath, UK
• Centre for Environmental Management, UK
• Dept. of Geography and Environment , UK

Contacts

Contact

• Katharina HELMING / Leibniz-Zentrum Für Agrarlandschafts- Und Landnutzungsforsch GERMANY