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ACCELERATES
Assessing Climate Change Effects on Land use and Ecosystems: from
Regional Analysis to the European Scale
Funded by the European Commission, this three-year project aims
to assess the vulnerability of European agroecosystems to environmental
change.
The project will examine:
- How climate, policy and socio-economic pressures drive changes
in agricultural land use
- How agricultural land use and climate change affect biological
resources
- The vulnerability of agroecosystems, based on economic and
environmental considerations.
The project will:
- Enhance our understanding of the processes of agricultural
land use change
- Enhance our understanding of the relationship between land
use and species distribution
- Identify agroecosystems that are sensitive to change
- Evaluate whether an integrated approach can be developed for
the conservation and sustainable development of agroecosystem
- Examine policy mechanisms that could be used to reduce undesirable
changes in agroecosystems and biodiversity.
The ECI are particularly involved in the modelling of the impacts
of change in climate and agricultural systems on species from
a range of habitats
Funders:
European Commission
Project coordinator:
Dr Mark Rounsevell, Université Catholique de Louvain
Research team:
University of Oxford, ECI; Silsoe Research Institute; University
of Padova; Danish Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Economics;
University of the Aegean; Research Institute for Soil Science
and Agrochemistry; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientîficas
For more information on ACCELERATES please contact Dr
Terry Dawson and refer to the project
website
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