About
La Idea
El Proyecto LIFE RESILIENT FORESTS trata la mejora de la resiliencia de los bosques frente al cambio climático, los incendios forestales, la degradación ambiental y otras perturbaciones derivadas del cambio climático. El objetivo principal es el desarrollo de un concepto de gestión forestal a escala de cuenca que pueda ser aplicado a lo largo de Europa.
Misión
El Proyecto LIFE RESILIENT FORESTS llevará a cabo un seguimiento de todos los impactos, de forma que se pruebe la solidez del mismo así como sus efectos socio-económicos en las zonas rurales y conectará con otras iniciativas.
Guía
El Proyecto LIFE RESILIENT FORESTS desarrollará una Herramienta de Soporte a la Decisión (DSS), una guía para que los gestores forestales tomen decisiones sobre la gestión a escala de cuenca y teniendo en cuenta la adaptación al cambio climático.
Resultados esperados
- Incremente la resiliencia del bosque frente al cambio climático
- Incremente el recurso hídrico
- Incremente la producción de bio-energía
- Incremente la provisión de oportunidades económicas e las zonas rurales
- Reduzca el riesgo de incendio
Partners
The research team at IIAMA of Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) has extensive experience with forest hydrology, forest restoration, soil biogeochemistry and water transport modelling. The research of these topics is centred on the need to obtain the hydrological criteria to manage and to understand Mediterranean Forests. Likewise, the team has wide experience on the development of hydro-economic models with applications to issues like water-energy-land-climate nexus, river basin management, groundwater and conjunctive use management, water markets, climate change impacts and adaptation, water economics, and water conservation in urban uses and in irrigation.
The Association for the Development of Industrial Aerodynamics (ADAI) is a non-profit private institution created in 1990 and associated to the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra. ADAI promotes activities of research, development, demonstration, training and monitoring services to the industry. The Forest Fires and Detonics (FFD) research group of ADAI applied research on forest, urban and industrial fires, and energetic materials.
European Biomass Industry Association (EUBIA) is an international non-profit association which gathers together market actors, technology providers, and knowledge centres, all of them active in the field of biomass. The main objective of EUBIA is to support the European biomass industries at all levels, promoting the use of biomass as an energy source, developing innovative bioenergy concepts and fostering international co-operation within the bioenergy field.
Jülich Research Centre will provide climate projections for all the research sites in the project. In addition, for the TERENO-site Wüstebach ecohydrological model simulations are made for past, present and future, forest ecosystem parameters will be estimated, and the impact of climate change on groundwater recharge and biomass production will be evaluated and a contribution to the decision support system will be given. The developed methodology in Germany will be tested on other, forested, LTER-sites across Europe.
The municipality of Serra covers an area of 5,730 Ha, with 95% of this territory lying within the Sierra Calderona Natural Park and 85% being forest. Serra’s biomass management project began eight years ago as an environmental bet, turning green waste coming from gardening, into solid fuel used in a 35 kw biomass boiler to heat the municipal nursery. The project allows economic savings for the municipality and has positive collateral effects in terms of protecting the environment, reducing pollution and creating job opportunities.