Projet DecisionES (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Pressures on forest ecosystems are very likely to increase as a consequence of socioeconomic and demographic trends. A growing population will demand more products (e.g., wood) to be extracted from forest ecosystems. At the same time, these harvesting activities and their interactions with global change drivers will impact the sustainability of the supply of a wider range of non-provisioning services (e.g., wildfire protection, water, and biodiversity). The integrity of ecosystems must be safeguarded when developing harvesting activities, and yet this is further complicated by the occurrence of natural disturbances such as wildfires and droughts, etc. New decision support approaches are needed that can cope with this challenge. European and the American experiences with the development and application of decision support approaches for the provision of ecosystem services (ESs), offer a solid base for continued improvement in the efficiency and effectiveness of forest management in the context of global change (e.g., responding to changes in demographics, socioeconomics, and climatic conditions). This provided the rationale for a project that will help to strengthen research collaboration through active networking and staff exchange between 8 European organizations and 10 American organizations that are leaders in these fields. This project will build from the top-level multidisciplinary expertise (wildfire ecology and management, wildfire behaviour simulation, hydrology, process-based modelling, biodiversity, wildlife management, ecology, water services, operations research, management science, stakeholder engagement, forest ecosystem management planning methods, supply chain management methods and decision support systems) in these organizations to address the integration of operational, tactical and strategic forest ecosystem management planning levels and potentiate the supply of ecosystem services at various spatial and temporal scales.

Mots clés : decision support, decision making, forest planning, global change, forest fires, climate change, adaptive management

Participants :
- CERCA Institution (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 639400.0 €
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 220800.0 €
- CERCA Institution (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 156400.0 €
- University of Washington (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 243800.0 €
- University of Eastern Finland (Finlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 193200.0 €
- Université du Québec (Canada) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chili) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Freiburg (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 262200.0 €
- Pennsylvania State University (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- United States Department of Agriculture (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza Catie (Costa Rica) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Methodist University of São Paulo (Brésil) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Lisbon (Portugal) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 354200.0 €
- University of Évora (Portugal) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 142600.0 €
- Université Laval (Canada) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Complex Engineering System Institute (Chili) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €