Climate Change Terrestrial Adaptation and Mitigation in Europe
Abstract
The project will assess the impacts of agricultural, climate, energy, forestry and other associated landuse policies, considering the resulting feedbacks on the climate system. Geographically explicit biophysical models together with an integrated cluster of economic landuse models will be coupled with regional climate models to assess and identify mitigation and adaptation strategies in European agriculture and forestry. The role of distribution and pressures from socioeconomic drivers will be assessed in a geographically nested fashion. Crop/trees growth models operating on the plot level as well as on continental scales will quantify a rich set of mitigation and adaptation strategies focusing on climatic extreme events. The robustness of response strategies to extreme events will further be assessed with risk and uncertainty augmented farm/forest enterprise models. Bioenergy sources and pathways will be assessed with grid level models in combination with economic energylanduse models. The results from the integrated CCTAME model cluster will be used to provide: quantitative assessments in terms of costefficiency and environmental effectiveness of individual landuse practices; competitive LULUCF mitigation potentials taking into account ancillary benefits, tradeoffs and welfare impacts, and policy implications in terms of instrument design and international negotiations. The proposed structure of the integrated CCTAME model cluster allows us, to provide an evaluation of policy options at a great level of detail for EU25(27) in a postKyoto regime, as well as to offer perspectives on global longerterm policy strategies in accordance with the principles and objectives of the UNFCCCC. Close interactions with policymakers and stakeholders will ensure the policy relevance of CCTAME results.
climate change mitigation adaptation agriculture forestry
Publikationen
Integration of bio-physical and economic models to analyze management intensity and landscape structure effects at farm and landscape level
Autoren: Schonhart, M; Schauppenlehner, T; Schmid, E; Muhar, A Jahr: 2011
Journal articles
Project staff
Erwin Schmid
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Erwin Schmid
erwin.schmid@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73002
BOKU Project Leader
01.07.2008 - 30.11.2011
Dagmar Elisabeth Schwab
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Dagmar Elisabeth Schwab
Project Staff
01.07.2008 - 30.11.2011
Martin Schönhart
Dipl.-Ing. Mag. Dr. Martin Schönhart
martin.schoenhart@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73124
Project Staff
01.07.2008 - 30.11.2011
BOKU partners
External partners
IIASA
Obersteiner Michael
partner
Joanneum Research
none
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UNEPRISØ Centre for Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development
none
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Tallinn University of Technology
none
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Parkano Research Station, Finnish Forest Research Institute
none
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INRA, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
none
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University of Hamburg
Uwe Schneider
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EuroCARE (European Centre for Agricultural, Regional and Environmental Policy Research) Bonn GmbH
none
partner
Max Planck- Institut für Meteorologie, Arbeitsgruppe Regionalmodellierung
none
partner
European Commission DG Joint Research Centre Environment Institute
none
partner
National Institute for Environmental Studies Japan
none
partner
Comenius University Bratislava, Department of Biophysics and Chemical Physics
none
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Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute
none
partner
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, CREAF, Unitat d'Ecologia
none
partner
Imperial College, London
none
partner
University of Aberdeen Department of Plant and Soil science
none
partner