Building synergies towards biodiversity protection in the Mediterranean

Invited by the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean, the European Topic Centre – University of Malaga presented the Interreg Med project PANACeA encompassing a community of eleven projects tackling biodiversity protection in the Mediterranean during the 9th Horizon 2020 Steering Committee meeting and the Task Force on Environment and Climate Change held on 29 and 30 January 2018 …

A holistic approach to Mediterranean resources

The Mediterranean is considered a biodiversity hotspot that has long been shared among more than 20 different countries and economic interests, with tourism, fisheries and agriculture at the centre of its economy.

Supporting workflows towards Mediterranean Sustainable Development indicators

Regional work in the Mediterranean and the possibilities of implementation in the Arab Countries have been the topic of the ETC-UMA contribution to the Consultative Meeting on the Implementation Framework for the Environmental Dimension of the 2030 Agenda in the Arab Region held in Cairo, Egypt, on 18-21 September 2017. The availability and standardization of regional and national data from …

From spatial data to local challenges; addressing biodiversity protection in the Mediterranean

From 11 to 14 September 2017, the European Topic Centre of the University of Malaga (ETC-UMA) represented by Ameer Abdulla, Senior Advisor to the PANACeA Working Group on Protected Area Management, attended the Mediterranean conference organized in Malta by the Life Bahar for N2K project. For this occasion, examples of the Emerging Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Marine Biodiversity and …

El primer mapa digital europeo de la biodiversidad del suelo

La Fundación Descubre ha publicado una noticia relacionada con el Mapa Europeo de Biodiversidad del Suelo generado por los investigadores del ETC-UMA. Además, la emisora Onda Local de Andalucía se ha interesado por los resultados de este estudio y ha realizado una entrevista telefónica a Christoph Schröder en representación del equipo de trabajo del centro. Puedes acceder a la noticia …

Assessing and mapping ecosystem condition and links to services

More than 80 experts including representatives of different units of DG Environment, regional stakeholders and Member State representatives met on 27-28 June 2017 in Brussels for the Mapping and Assessing Ecosystems and their Services (MAES) workshop organized by the European Commission…

SOSTPARK

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COPERNICUS

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MS MONINA

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enviroGRIDS

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