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Ecosystems Services and Management Research Projects

A selection of current projects in the Ecosystems Services and Management program

Livestock Production Scenarios (AnimalChange)

AnimalChange creates scenarios that project 20 and 40 years into the future to allow policymakers to see what impact climate change is likely to have on livestock production in Europe, Northern and sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America. More

Earth Observation in the Balkans (BalkanGEONet)

BalkanGEONet is designed to strengthen existing Earth Observation research and participation among the Balkan countries and encourage those countries not yet involved to join the GEO initiative. More

Extreme Weather Impacts on Carbon Sinks (CARBO-Extreme)

European ecosystems help stabilize the atmosphere by soaking up significant amounts of the carbon in fossil fuel emissions, but researchers are concerned that the effectiveness of these carbon sinks might be diminished by expected increases in extreme weather. More

CATSEI

The CATSEI-project (acronym for the above title) studies the impacts of China’s vigorous agricultural transition, on the country itself, as well on its trading partners, the EU in particular. It follows a quantitative approach, supplemented by qualitative investigations. The quantitative research takes as point of departure the Chinagro-I policy simulation model developed in the earlier CHINAGRO project. More

Improving Earth Observation Methodology (EGIDA)

EGIDA is a technical project to create a standard methodology to support GEOSS, the Global Earth Observations System of Systems, through development of evaluation processes, assessment indexes, and databases. More

Energy Use Impacts on the Environment (EnerGEO)

EnerGEO assesses the current and future impact of energy use on the environment by linking environmental observation systems with the processes involved in exploiting energy resources. More

EuroGEOSS — A European Approach to GEOSS

EuroGEOSS contributes to the international effort to create the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) by making existing systems that gather data on forestry, drought, and biodiversity interoperable and easier to use. More

Reducing GHG Emissions Uncertainties (GESAPU)

Research in the more than ten years since the Kyoto Protocol has shown that the methods used to measure and inventory greenhouse gas emissions have significant uncertainties and gaps. GESAPU is intended to reduce the uncertainties of GHG emissions in Poland and Ukraine. More

Sources and Sinks for Greenhouse Gases (GHG-Europe)

GHG-Europe is analyzing European agricultural and forestry lands to determine both the sources and sinks for three major greenhouse gases and determine what percentage of those gases is anthropogenic. More

Climate Change and Agricultural Productivity (ISAC)

High-frequency, high-resolution imaging from new satellites is providing detailed agricultural information that will allow scientists to better monitor the impacts of drought and climate change on crops and model future agricultural productivity under different climate change scenarios. More

Life Cycle Impacts of Goods, Services, Activities (LC-IMPACT)

The LC-IMPACT project is developing methods to assess the environmental life cycle impact of a vast number of goods, services and activities. The assessments examine the environmental costs of such things as erosion caused by land use and threats from toxic substances used in production processes. More