ALICE – Improving the management of Atlantic Landscapes: accounting for biodiversity and ecosystem services

Improving the management of Atlantic Landscapes: accounting for biodiversity and ecosystem services

ALICE will develop an integrated approach considering the relationships between human activities (social and economic aspects), ecosystem service provisioning and coastal and terrestrial biodiversity. The project aims at protecting biodiversity while assuring human activities through the implementation of Blue and Green Infrastructures to adapt to climate change.

Multi sectoral participation will take place through an innovative participatiory process fostering local knowledge and the involvement of relevant stakeholders (institutions, private and public, NGOs, civil society).

Activities will be developed by:

– Four Case Studies to address the common problems of natural resource management at a catchment scale.
– Combining a range of satellite images, Geographical Information System data and modelling frameworks to map aquatic and terrestrial vegetation formations and ecological processes;
– Enhancing the predictive capacity by using a multi-model platform;
– Social Learning between researchers and local stakeholders;