Improving the management of Atlantic landscapes: accouting for biodiversity and ecosystem services

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Atlantic Area

Date of latest update: 2023-03-02

Description

Description (EN):

An integrative, landscape management approach incorporating socioeconomic and climate change scenarios is critical to ensure the delivery of benefits from investments in Blue and Green Infrastructures to meet the 2020 EU biodiversity targets and sustainable development in the Atlantic Region. The ALICE project will develop a comprehensive package of new methods, tools and procedures to identify economic and social barriers to the delivery of benefits from Blue and Green Infrastructures implementation and to improve the characterization of biodiversity and the valuation of Ecosystem Services across four Atlantic case studies (Portugal, Spain, France and UK-Ireland). ALICE will focus on participative learning and modelling by engaging stakeholders and policy makers to identify best Blue and Green Infrastructures solutions. The key objectives of ALICE are: (i) develop a full-package of new methods, tools and procedures to assist with coastal and inland landscape management; (ii) targeting and stimulating BGI investment within the four case studies by quantifying the benefits for ES including biodiversity conservation, (iii) identify solutions for the economic and social barriers, which may limit investment in BGI in each of the four case studies, (iv) provide with stronger scientific and socioeconomic support for the effective implementation of future BGI and environmental policy.

Achievements (EN):

An integrative landscape management approach incorporating future scenarios is critical to meet EU biodiversity targets and sustainable development in the Atlantic region. However, there is a lack of common methodologies and integrated policies for assessing biodiversity patterns and ecosystem service fluxes across coastal, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems. In this context, ALICE project has advanced in the characterisation of biodiversity and the evaluation of ecosystem service at the land-sea interface in order to assess the delivery of benefits from investments in Blue and Green Infrastructure Networks (BGINs) in the coming decades. The project is focused on the development of participative learning and modeling approaches by engaging stakeholders and policy makers since early steps of implementation, in order to identify the barriers to the delivery of implementation of BGINs across 4 case studies in Portugal, Spain, France and UK-Ireland. As main achievements, the highlight goes to the development of a multi-model platform capable of integrating terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem models into demonstrative exercises of BGINs. This enables designing resilient landscapes with regard to global change effects in different socioecological scenarios, opening a public debate of their efficient implementation. Another major contribution is the identification and classification of barriers that slow down or even prevent the implementation of BGINs globally, contributing to a participatory culture that will be maintained and remain stable in the long term. ALICE is assessing landscape functioning in an integrated manner and moving cuttingedge science towards the local economy and stakeholders’ perception, connecting what is simply desirable from an environmental point of view to what is actually possible to undertake in real socioecosystems. "The whole project is very interesting and the opportunity maps is something that we have certainly thought about within ourselves in targeting areas across Northern Ireland and wider European areas (…) certainly shown how you can do that in practice and then possibly targeting those areas with different levels of funding. The project is very encouraging”. Local policy maker.

Website: http://www.atlanticarea.eu/

Expected Results (EN): Identification of the best Blue and Green Infrastructures (BGI) solutions and evaluatation of economic and social barriers to the delivery of Ecosystem Services.

Expected Outputs (EN):

• Practical guidance on how investment in Blue and Green Infrastructures (BGI) could be prioritized in coastal, rural and urban planning to increase ecosystem services delivery for better adapting to climate change; • Producing a user friendly integrative modelling platform that facilitates ecosystem services evaluation and trade-off analyses by managers, stakeholders and business communities; • Developing new methods for habitat mapping and monitoring of conservation status (sensu Habitats Directive) using remote sensing and ecological modelling tools; • Practical guidance to identify thresholds controlling ecosystem services delivery under realistic scenarios of global change and policy development across the Atlantic region; • Development of innovative participatory approaches for decision support to realistically inform future socioeconomic and environmental policy; • Practical guidance on how the characterization of biodiversity and ecosystem services should be integrated in the current EU policy agenda (e.g. Habitats Directive, Common Agrarian Policy, Marine Strategy Framework Directive, Water Framework Directive, Flood Risk management and EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy).

Thematic information

Sustainable management of natural resources Climate change and biodiversity

Specific Objective: Improving the protection of biodiversity and enhancing ecosystem services

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06d) Protecting and restoring biodiversity and soil and promoting ecosystem services, including through Natura 2000, and green infrastructure

Partners (11)

Lead Partner: Universidad de Cantabria

Address: Santander, Spain

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 528 877.93

ERDF budget: EUR 396 658.45

GISTREE, Sistemas de Informação Geográfica, Floresta e Ambiente, Lda

Name: GISTREE, Sistemas de Informação Geográfica, Floresta e Ambiente, Lda

Address: Vila Real, Portugal

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 154 434.45

ERDF budget: EUR 115 825.84

Quercus - Associação Nacional de Conservação da Natureza

Name: Quercus - Associação Nacional de Conservação da Natureza

Address: Lisboa, Portugal

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 189 396.15

ERDF budget: EUR 142 047.11

National University of Ireland

Name: National University of Ireland

Address: Galway, Ireland

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 179 239.05

ERDF budget: EUR 134 429.29

ASOC. BC3 BASQUE CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE – KLIMA ALDAKETA IKERGAI

Name: ASOC. BC3 BASQUE CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE – KLIMA ALDAKETA IKERGAI

Address: Leioa, Spain

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 380 238.07

ERDF budget: EUR 285 178.55

Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

Name: Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

Address: Vila Real, Portugal

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 264 235.63

ERDF budget: EUR 198 176.72

Centre national de la recherche Scientifique – Délégation Bretagne Pays de la Loire (DR17)

Name: Centre national de la recherche Scientifique – Délégation Bretagne Pays de la Loire (DR17)

Address: Rennes, France

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 213 292.17

ERDF budget: EUR 159 969.13

Consejería de Medio Rural, Pesca y Alimentación del Gobierno de Cantabria

Name: Consejería de Medio Rural, Pesca y Alimentación del Gobierno de Cantabria

Address: Santander, Spain

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 147 876.89

ERDF budget: EUR 110 907.67

Université de Rennes 1

Name: Université de Rennes 1

Address: Rennes, France

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 169 829.36

ERDF budget: EUR 127 372.02

Université de Bretagne Occidentale

Name: Université de Bretagne Occidentale

Address: Brest, France

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 337 647.19

ERDF budget: EUR 253 235.39

Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute

Name: Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute

Address: Belfast, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 410 967.27

ERDF budget: EUR 308 225.45

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Summary

Project name (ES): Mejorando la gestión de los paisajes Atlánticos: integrando biodiversidad y servicios ecosistémicos

Project name (FR): Amélioration des paysages Atlantiques: l'intégration de biodiversité et des services écosystémiques

Project name (PT): Melhorar a gestão das paisagens atlânticas: integrando a biodiversidade e os serviços ecossistémicos

Project name (EN): Improving the management of Atlantic landscapes: accouting for biodiversity and ecosystem services

Project acronym: ALICE

Project start date: 2017-11-01

Project end date: 2020-10-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 976 034.16

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 232 025.62

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 2 232 025.62.

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Studies / surveys

Can UAVs fill the gap between in situ surveys and satellites for habitat mapping?

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://www.atlanticarea.eu/

Publication date: 2021-03-01

Document date: 2020-06-15

Languages: en

Attachment link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0034425720301504?dgcid=author

Towards globally customizable ecosystem service models

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://www.atlanticarea.eu/

Publication date: 2021-03-01

Document date: 2019-02-10

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Mapping potential, existing and efficient wetlands using free remote sensing data

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://www.atlanticarea.eu/

Publication date: 2021-03-01

Document date: 2019-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334588092_Mapping_potential_existing_and_efficient_wetlands_using_free_remote_sensing_data

Modelling riparian forest distribution and composition to entire river networks

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://www.atlanticarea.eu/

Publication date: 2021-03-01

Document date: 2020-10-31

Languages: en

Attachment link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336162269_Modelling_riparian_forest_distribution_and_composition_to_entire_river_networks

Videos / films

Portuguese Case Study - Paiva River Catchment

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.atlanticarea.eu/

Publication date: 2021-03-01

Document date: 2020-01-16

Languages: en, pt

ALICE in France, Rennes – Sylvie Le Roy Interview: A look over Couesnon Watershed main issues

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.atlanticarea.eu/

Publication date: 2021-03-01

Document date: 2019-01-17

Languages: en, fr

Stakeholders Workshop II - Portuguese Case Study

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.atlanticarea.eu/

Publication date: 2021-03-01

Document date: 2020-03-22

Languages: en, pt

Riparian Buffers in Monte Corona, Cantabria, Spain [subtitled]

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.atlanticarea.eu/

Publication date: 2021-03-01

Document date: 2020-05-22

Languages: en, es

Prescribed burning: a pilot project in Cantabria, Spain [subtitled]

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.atlanticarea.eu/

Publication date: 2021-03-01

Document date: 2020-05-29

Languages: en, es

The Híjar: a river disconnected from its floodplain in Reinosa, Spain [subtitled]

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.atlanticarea.eu/

Publication date: 2021-03-01

Document date: 2020-05-29

Languages: en, es

ALICE stakeholders workshop at Portugal, Castro Daire

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.atlanticarea.eu/

Publication date: 2021-03-01

Document date: 2019-06-03

Languages: en, pt

Reports

A.L.I.C.E., Animation League For Increased Cooperation In Europe Action Plan // Final Version

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/alice/

Publication date: 2023-07-28

Document date: 2021-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Atlantic Area

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2021-08-01

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

71 / 71 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

718 / 718 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.atlanticarea.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-12-03, 2023-02-02 and 2024 01 30. Fields project name and description (from 23 projects) translated from Spanish into English using the European Commission's eTranslation machine translation service.

The projects which fields include an eTranslation English text are the ones with the following acronyms: @BluePortS, 4H-CREAT, ACCESS2SEA, AGEO, AGRITOX, ALERTOX-NET, AtlanticFoodExport, ATLANTIC-KET-MED, AT-VIRTUAL, AYCH, CABFishMAN, CircularSeas, COCKLES, CONSORTEX, FAN-BEST, iFADO, IN 4.0, JONAS, MONITOOL, NANOCULTURE, PROTOATLANTIC, SIRMA and USER-FACTOR.

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Improving the management of Atlantic landscapes: accouting for biodiversity and ecosystem services

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