Projet COUPLED (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Society depends on land for food, feed, fibre and energy, but the detrimental outcomes of unsustainable land practices are becoming increasingly apparent. Ensuring sustainable land use is a key challenge, yet hard to achieve in today’s interconnected world where policies, consumer demands and environmental change in one region may affect far-away places. We face a significant knowledge gap regarding the processes related to land use that link distant places – or telecouplings – and how these processes could be governed towards sustainability. Companies, institutions and policy makers lack the expertise and tools to ensure sustainable land use in a globalised world. COUPLED will educate researchers and entrepreneurs in assessing and governing land use in a systemic way, accounting for the opportunities and threats arising from distal links between Europe and other regions. COUPLED builds on a strong interdisciplinary network to achieve its overall objective of operationalising the novel telecouplings concept in order to support sustainable governance of land systems and related supply chains under global change. COUPLED will deliver on training a new generation of professionals and entrepreneurs, developing rich analytic tools and new understandings to help private and public organisations to identify where and how they can intervene to make sustainable land use decisions, thereby avoiding unwanted outcomes. The consortiums unites scientifically excellent partners across the natural and social sciences to ensure excellence in research, institutional and technological innovation. Working closely with large companies, SMEs, NGOs, international organisations and administrative bodies, the ESRs will learn how to move between science and practice, become highly attractive to employers, and build successful careers in research, consulting, industry or governance. The action will thus contribute to Europe’s leading position for a transformation towards sustainable land use.

Mots clés : land use change, sustainability science, telecouplings, globalisation, feedback flows, land system science, globalization, sustainable land management, sustainable supply chains

Participants :
- University of Klagenfurt (Autriche) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (Autriche) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 255934.08 €
- University of Bern (Suisse) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 265226.76 €
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 510748.56 €
- Fairphone bv (Pays-Bas) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Rspo sdn bhd (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, organization partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- European landowners organization (Belgique) — Partner, organization partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 501120.0 €
- The forest trust lbg (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 44204.46 €
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 498432.96 €
- Autonomous University of Barcelona (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 495745.92 €
- World Bank Group (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Unilever (United Kingdom) (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 273287.88 €
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (Allemagne) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Fairtrade labelling organizations international ev (Allemagne) — Partner, organization partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 249216.48 €
- Earthworm foundation (Suisse) — Partner, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 125245.97 €
- Stockholm Environment Institute (Suède) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Copenhagen (Danemark) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 620452.91 €