Objective
Society depends on land for food, feed, fibre and energy, but the detrimental outcomes of unsustainable land practices are becoming increasingly apparent. Ensuring sustainable land use is a key challenge, yet hard to achieve in today’s interconnected world where policies, consumer demands and environmental change in one region may affect far-away places. We face a significant knowledge gap regarding the processes related to land use that link distant places – or telecouplings – and how these processes could be governed towards sustainability. Companies, institutions and policy makers lack the expertise and tools to ensure sustainable land use in a globalised world. COUPLED will educate researchers and entrepreneurs in assessing and governing land use in a systemic way, accounting for the opportunities and threats arising from distal links between Europe and other regions. COUPLED builds on a strong interdisciplinary network to achieve its overall objective of operationalising the novel telecouplings concept in order to support sustainable governance of land systems and related supply chains under global change. COUPLED will deliver on training a new generation of professionals and entrepreneurs, developing rich analytic tools and new understandings to help private and public organisations to identify where and how they can intervene to make sustainable land use decisions, thereby avoiding unwanted outcomes. The consortiums unites scientifically excellent partners across the natural and social sciences to ensure excellence in research, institutional and technological innovation. Working closely with large companies, SMEs, NGOs, international organisations and administrative bodies, the ESRs will learn how to move between science and practice, become highly attractive to employers, and build successful careers in research, consulting, industry or governance. The action will thus contribute to Europe’s leading position for a transformation towards sustainable land use.
Fields of science
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiespublic policies
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil societynongovernmental organizations
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managemententrepreneurship
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical transitionsrevolutions
Programme(s)
Coordinator
10117 Berlin
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Participants (11)
3012 Bern
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08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles
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1165 Kobenhavn
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9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
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1081 HV Amsterdam
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21335 Luneburg
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1348 Louvain La Neuve
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SO30 2AF Southampton
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EC4Y 0DY LONDON
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1180 Wien
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1260 NYON
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Partners (8)
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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104 51 Stockholm
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1013 CP Amsterdam
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53129 BONN
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10117 Berlin
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20433 Washington Dc
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CB3 0DL Cambridge
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.