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SENSOR - Sustainability Impact Assessment: Tools for Environmental, Social and Economic Effects of Multifunctional Land Use in European Regions
Project
Project code: 3874
Contract period: 01.12.2004
- 30.11.2008
Budget: 10,210,000 Euro
Purpose of research: Basic research
Sustainability of land use in European regions is a central point of policy and management decisions at different levels of governance. Implementation of European policies designed to promote and protect multifunctional land use requires the urgent development of robust tools for the assessment of different scenarios' impacts on the environmental and socio-economic sustainability. The technical objective of SENSOR is to build, validate and implement sustainability impact assessment tools (SIAT), including databases and spatial reference frameworks for the analysis of land and human resources in the context of agricultural, regional and environmental policies. The scientific challenge is to establish relationships between different environmental and socio-economic processes as characterised by indicators considered to be quantitative measures of sustainability. Scenario techniques will be used within an integrated modelling framework, reflecting various aspects of multifunctionality and their interactions. The focus will be on European sensitive regions, particularly those in accession countries, since accession poses significant questions for policy makers regarding the socio-economic and environmental effect of existing and proposed land use policies. SIAT will utilise the statistical and spatial data continuously collected by European and regional agencies. SENSOR will deliver novel solutions for integrated modelling, spatial and temporal scaling and aggregation of data, selection of indicators, database management, analysis and prediction of trends, education and implementation. SIAT will be made available to decision makers at the European and regional level, providing user-friendly interfaces and scientifically sound procedures for the assessment of environmental and monetary responses of policy options. Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis of policy implementation will be an integral part of the SIAT's functions.
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- Agroecology
- Landscape Planning
- Resource management
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Research projects by subject
| Subject | Ongoing Projects | Finished Projects | All Projects |
| sort | sort | sort | sort |
| Animal production | 267 | 3637 | 3904 |
| Ecology | 400 | 2935 | 3335 |
| Fisheries and Aquaculture | 95 | 509 | 604 |
| Food technology | 74 | 1967 | 2041 |
| Forestry | 59 | 1490 | 1549 |
| Interdisciplinary Subjects | 714 | 6975 | 7689 |
| Nutritional Science | 153 | 1412 | 1565 |
| Plant production | 688 | 6666 | 7354 |
| Socioeconomics | 62 | 1315 | 1377 |
A collaborative project describes a research plan of a researcher network. It includes several projects, work packages or subprojects. Coordination of the research areas and sub-projects is carried out by a research institution or a work package leader.
The subjects of agriculture and nutritional sciences in FISA are structured as follows:
Plant production
Crop Production, Plant Breeding, Plant Nutrition, Crop Protection, Agricultural Engineering in Plant Production, Grassland, Arboriculture, Horticulture, Vegetable Gardening, Viticulture, and Specialised crops.
Animal production
Animal breeding, Animal Husbandry, Agricultural Technology Animal Production, Animal health, Animal nutrition, Special animal species, Beekeeping and health, and Farm animal behaviour.
Fisheries and Aquaculture
Freshwater fisheries, Pond fisheries, Marine fisheries, Raceways systems, Recirculation systems, and Mariculture.
Forestry
Silviculture, Forestry, Wildlife Biology, Forestry Technology, and Forest genetics.
Ecology
Agricultural hydrology, Agricultural Meteorology, Agroecology, Landscape Planning, Soil science, and Organic Farming.
Socioeconomics
Agricultural Policy, Market Analysis, Business administration, Agricultural Sociology, Agroeconomics, and Rural history.
Nutritional Science
Physiology of Nutrition, Home Economics, Nutritional behaviour, and Toxicology.
Interdisciplinary Subjects
Process engineering, Communication Sciences, Biotechnology, Resource management, Genetic Resources, Renewable Resources, Climate Change, and Computer science.
Food technology
Food Chemistry, Food Processing, and Food microbiology.
