FOREADAPT

Knowledge exchange between Europe and America on forest growth models and optimisation for adaptive forestry

Coordinatore	Instituto Superior de Agronomia    more  Organization address address: Tapada da Ajuda city: Lisboa postcode: 1349-017 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Maria Cognome: Da Graça Côrte-Real Mira Da Silva Abrantes Email: send email Telefono: 351214000000 Fax: 351214000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Portugal [PT]
Totale costo	516˙600 €
EC contributo	516˙600 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES
Funding Scheme	MC-IRSES
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-02-01   -   2015-01-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	Instituto Superior de Agronomia  Organization address address: Tapada da Ajuda city: Lisboa postcode: 1349-017 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Maria Cognome: Da Graça Côrte-Real Mira Da Silva Abrantes Email: send email Telefono: 351214000000 Fax: 351214000000	PT (Lisboa)	coordinator	266˙700.00
2	UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID  Organization address address: Calle Ramiro de Maeztu 7 city: MADRID postcode: 28040 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Gonzalo Cognome: León Email: send email Telefono: 34913366048 Fax: 34913365974	ES (MADRID)	participant	117˙600.00
3	SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET  Organization address address: ARRHENIUSPLAN 4 city: UPPSALA postcode: 75007 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Linda Cognome: ågren Email: send email Telefono: 46907868248 Fax: 4690778116	SE (UPPSALA)	participant	81˙900.00
4	Nome Ente NON disponibile  Organization address address: YLIOPISTONRANTA 1 E city: Kuopio postcode: 70211 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Pukkala Cognome: Timo Email: send email Telefono: 358133000000 Fax: 358133000000	FI (Kuopio)	participant	50˙400.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The supply of forest services and products is largely determined by forest management. Decision makers thus need models and tools that may help assess the short and long term impacts of management options on the forest resource base. The biological processes and the temporal and spatial scales involved complicate this assessment. Socioeconomic and climate change as well as the possibility of catastrophic events further complicate it as they lead to a decision-making context characterized by risk and uncertainty. Designing adequate forest decision support models and tools is a thus a very complex task.

The European and the American experiences with the development and application of models and tools to support forest management provides a solid foundation for continuous improvement of its efficiency and effectiveness in a context of global change that calls for adaptive approaches. It further suggests networking and research needs to pursue that improvement. This provided the rationale for a project that might strengthen research collaboration through active networking and staff exchange activities between four European organisations from Portugal, Finland, Spain and Sweden, and five American organisations from Chile, Brazil and USA that are leaders in this field. These organisations represent different disciplines (e.g. environmental science, forest inventory and modelling, operations research and software engineering). The project will contribute to a consistent worldwide quality reference for the development of tools that may be used by public administrators, forest owners, industry and non-governmental organisations for enhanced integration of adaptive strategies in forest management planning. Expertise of the partners involved in this proposal is key to achieve the objectives of the ForEAdapt programme.'