Project description
A decision support tool for biodiversity protection
Healthy communities rely on well-functioning ecosystems. Global biodiversity preservation is a prerequisite for successful climate change mitigation and adaptation and the continued well-being of fauna, flora and all life. However, this is not easy. The EU-funded GUARDEN project will introduce a user oriented decision support application. It will create multistakeholder partnerships and collect data that can help organisations, stakeholders and policymakers make informed decisions. To increase the amount of geo-localised biodiversity data and build a new generation of predictive models of biodiversity and ecosystem status indicators, GUARDEN will make use of deep learning, Earth observation, and hybrid modeling.
Objective
GUARDEN’s main mission is to safeguard biodiversity and its contributions to people by bringing them at the forefront of policy and decision-making. This will be achieved through the development of user-oriented Decision Support Applications (DSAs), and leveraging on Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships (MSPs). They will take into account policy and management objectives and priorities across sectors and scales, build consensus to tackle data gaps, analytical uncertainties or conflicting objectives, and assess options to implement adaptive transformative change. To do so, GUARDEN will make use of a suite of methods and tools using Deep Learning, Earth Observation, and hybrid modelling to augment the amount of standardized and geo-localized biodiversity data, build-up a new generation of predictive models of biodiversity and ecosystem status indicators under multiple pressures (human and climate), and propose a set of complementary ecological indicators likely to be incorporated into local management and policy. The GUARDEN approach will be applied at sectoral case studies involving end users and stakeholders through Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships, and addressing critical cross-sectoral challenges (at the nexus of biodiversity and deployment of energy/transport infrastructure, agriculture, and coastal urban development). Thus, the GUARDEN DSAs shall help stakeholders engaged in the challenge to improve their holistic understanding of ecosystem functioning, biodiversity loss and its drivers and explore the potential ecological and societal impacts of alternative decisions. Upon the acquisition of this new knowledge and evidence, the DSAs will help end-users not only navigate but also (re-)shape the policy landscape to make informed all-encompassing decisions through cross-sectoral integration.
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75016 Paris
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Participants (16)
78153 Le Chesnay Cedex
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28006 Madrid
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176 71 Athina
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2333 CR Leiden
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1860 Meise
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106 82 ATHINA
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1036 Pallouriotissa Lefkosia
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83406 Hyeres
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101 Antananarivo
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54655 Thessaloniki
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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2322 Nicosia
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151 22 MAROUSI
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1417 Nicosia
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08040 Barcelona
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08193 CERDANYOLA DEL VALLES
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PL1 3DH Plymouth
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