Distributed, integrated and harmonised forest information for bio-economy outlooks

Project

Distributed, integrated and harmonised forest information for bio-economy outlooks http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/193234_en.html

Europe’s bioeconomy is expected to foster economic growth and to tackle significant societal challenges with less harmful environmental effects through innovative, sustainable and inclusive use of European forest resources. Increasing demand for biomass and other ecosystem goods and services calls for changes in forest-related policies at different levels and across different sectors. Accordingly, the recent Forest Strategy provides clear signals towards the need for harmonised information for mapping and assessing the dynamic state of forest ecosystems and their services. Building upon scientific advances in COST E4, 39, 43, USEWOOD, FORSYS, ORCHESTRA; the networks ENFIN, EFFIS, SOSIN; the FP7 EUFODOS, S2BIOM, INTEGRAL, SIMWOOD, FIRE PARADOX the project DIABOLO aims to: i) strengthen the methodological framework towards more accurate, harmonised and timely forest information, e.g. on growing stock and stock changes, biomass, carbon, NWFP; enable the analysis of sustainable biomass supply derived from multipurpose and multisource national forest inventories; and facilitate near real-time forest disturbance monitoring, e.g. on forest fires, storm, drought, insect outbreaks; ii) support EU policy processes, international reporting obligations, forest administration and forest planning entities with new methodologies and EU-wide consistent forest information; iii) make innovative use of existing field-collected data and EC space-based applications of EO and satellite positioning systems with reference to INSPIRE and GEOSS, and global monitoring systems such as REDD+, FLEGT and UNFF. To deliver high impact, beyond state-of-the-art work within the ecological and socio-economic diversity in Europe, the trans-disciplinary DIABOLO involves experts in quantitative modelling, policy science and NFIs, from 26 European countries, committed to provide new methodologies and information for various end-uses, including EFDAC (FISE) at JRC, GLOBIOM at IIASA and work at FAO/UNECE.

Participants LUONNONVARAKESKUSFinland Bundesforschungs-und Ausbildungszentrum für Wald, Naturgefahren und LandschaftAustria JOANNEUM RESEARCH FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBHAustria INTERNATIONALES INSTITUT FUER ANGEWANDTE SYSTEMANALYSEAustria UNIVERSITE DE LIEGEBelgium Ústav pro hospodářskou úpravu lesů Brandýs nad LabemCzech Republic KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITETDenmark KESKKONNAAGENTUUREstonia INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L'INFORMATION GEOGRAPHIQUE ET FORESTIEREFrance INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUEFrance FORSTLICHE VERSUCHS- UND FORSCHUNGSANSTALT BADEN-WUERTTEMBERGGermany ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITAET FREIBURGGermany JOHANN HEINRICH VON THUENEN-INSTITUT, BUNDESFORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUER LAENDLICHE RAEUME, WALD UND FISCHEREIGermany PANEPISTIMIO PATRONGreece NEMZETI ELELMISZERLANC-BIZTONSAGI HIVATALHungary CONSIGLIO PER LA RICERCA IN AGRICOLTURA E L'ANALISI DELL'ECONOMIA AGRARIAItaly UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLINIreland DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND THE MARINEIreland LATVIJAS VALSTS MEZZINATNES INSTITUTS SILAVALatvia ALEKSANDRO STULGINSKIO UNIVERSITETASLithuania NORSK INSTITUTT FOR SKOG OG LANDSKAPNorway Norwegian institute of Bioeconomy Research - NIBIONorway Instituto Superior de AgronomiaPortugal INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE IN SILVICULTURA MARIN DRACEARomania INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARI SI AMENAJARI SILVICERomania UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE-FACULTY OF FORESTRYSerbia NARODNE LESNICKE CENTRUMSlovakia GOZDARSKI INSTITUT SLOVENIJESlovenia INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACION Y TECNOLOGIA AGRARIA Y ALIMENTARIASpain UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELASpain UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRIDSpain SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITETSweden EIDGENOESSISCHE FORSCHUNGSANSTALT WSL Switzerland FORESTRY COMMISSION RESEARCH AGENCY United Kingdom Ukrainian National Forestry University Ukraine