Research by MEDU focused on forest fires in Europe and adaptation options. The importance of the research was heavily underlined by the number of citations generated by MEDU’s paper on the topic "Forest fires and adaptation options in Europe” and interest by journalists and news outlets. Improvements to forest fire modeling are under way.
As at the end of January 2015 a study by the Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) Methods for Economic Decision-Making under Uncertainty (MEDU) research group was the most cited of all papers ever published in a top Springer journal. More
A series of improvements were introduced to the Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) Program’s standalone fire model (SFM) which quantitatively estimates climate impacts on forest fires in Europe. More
An Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) study on carbon price risks in the energy sector quantified the benefits and the role of financial instruments (options on REDD+ emission offsets) within available strategies to cope with the potential carbon price increase. More
Computing power provided by the in-house Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) Condor cluster more than quadrupled as compared to 2013 and reached an equivalent of 21 core-years in 2014. More
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