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RESTORE4Cs 1st Policy Brief: How can coastal wetlands help achieve EU climate goals?
The first RESTORE4Cs Policy Brief of RESTORE4Cs, “How can coastal wetlands help achieve EU climate goals?“, highlights the importance of European coastal wetlands for reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions. The key messages of the first RESTORE4Cs Policy Brief include: Coastal wetlands are important natural carbon stores, ...
Mapping the Impact of Blue Tourism in the Mediterranean
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Brief update of the MedBioLitter database version 10 updated in January 2023
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Mediterranean ecosystem restoration sites
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Supporting cetacean conservation in the Pelagos Sanctuary
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An assessment of marine biodiversity protection in the Mediterranean Sea: A threatened global biodiversity hotspot
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Mediterranean wetlands – their current state and ways to improve their conservation
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The role of healthy wetlands in fighting climate change
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A Mediterranean snapshot on what we have and how to protect it
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Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services: An EU ecosystem assessment
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MedBioLitter: an open database on marine litter and biodiversity science
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Presentations

Mancosu, E.
Land Use Change Scenarios for Black Sea Catchment. 4th Bi-annual Black Sea Scientific Conference. Presentation
01.03.2013.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Climate Change, EnviroGRIDS, Geotechnology, Land and soil
@misc{Mancosu2013,
title = {Land Use Change Scenarios for Black Sea Catchment. 4th Bi-annual Black Sea Scientific Conference.},
author = {E. Mancosu},
url = {/wp-content/uploads/publications/Poster_4BSScientificConference_BS-GES_E_Mancosu.pdf},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-03-01},
keywords = {Climate Change, EnviroGRIDS, Geotechnology, Land and soil},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {presentation}
}

Mancosu, E.; de Bono, A.; Gago-Silva, A.
Setting the scene for the future of the Black Sea catchmen Presentation
01.03.2013.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Climate Change, EnviroGRIDS, Geotechnology
@misc{Mancosu2013b,
title = {Setting the scene for the future of the Black Sea catchmen},
author = {E. Mancosu and A. de Bono and A. Gago-Silva},
url = {/wp-content/uploads/publications/Presentation_WP3_Mancosu_UMA_22032013.pdf},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-03-01},
keywords = {Climate Change, EnviroGRIDS, Geotechnology},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {presentation}
}
Technical Reports

Mancosu, E.
The enviroGRIDS scenarios Technical Report
EnviroGRIDS 2012.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Climate Change, EnviroGRIDS, Geotechnology
@techreport{Mancosu2012,
title = {The enviroGRIDS scenarios},
author = {E. Mancosu},
url = {http://envirogrids.net/indexe649.html?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=13&view=view.download&catid=12&cid=137 / http://envirogrids.net/envirogrids_d3.8_scenariosbd3b.pdf?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=13&view=finish&cid=137&catid=12},
year = {2012},
date = {2012-04-24},
institution = {EnviroGRIDS},
abstract = {The enviroGRIDS scenarios comprise a number of plausible alternatives (storylines) based on a coherent set of assumptions, key relationships and driving forces, to create a set of quantitative,
internally consistent and spatially explicit scenarios of future demography, climate and land use (LU) covering the entire Black Sea Catchment (BSC).
The aim of this report is to describe the technical specification of the final scenarios, the source data used and the different methodologies applied on each of them. We describe how the different sources were used and integrated in order to obtain the four alternatives storylines (HOT, ALONE, COOP and COOL), for a yearly time series from 2008 to 2050. The method applied to obtain the demographic growth according to the different storyline for the same time series is also described. Furthermore we describe also the results of the spatially explicit scenarios on climate change for the BSC (Task 3.6) of WP3, for a daily precipitation and temperature time series between 2071 and 2100.},
keywords = {Climate Change, EnviroGRIDS, Geotechnology},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {techreport}
}
internally consistent and spatially explicit scenarios of future demography, climate and land use (LU) covering the entire Black Sea Catchment (BSC).
The aim of this report is to describe the technical specification of the final scenarios, the source data used and the different methodologies applied on each of them. We describe how the different sources were used and integrated in order to obtain the four alternatives storylines (HOT, ALONE, COOP and COOL), for a yearly time series from 2008 to 2050. The method applied to obtain the demographic growth according to the different storyline for the same time series is also described. Furthermore we describe also the results of the spatially explicit scenarios on climate change for the BSC (Task 3.6) of WP3, for a daily precipitation and temperature time series between 2071 and 2100.

Barbosa, A.; Mancosu, E.; Gago-Silva, A.; de Bono, A.; Lehmann, A.; Mierla, M.; Hanganu, J.; Littkopf, A.
Proposed land use scenario analysis, model input parameters and allocation rules Technical Report
EnviroGRIDS 2011.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Climate Change, EnviroGRIDS, Geotechnology, Land and soil
@techreport{Barbosa2011,
title = {Proposed land use scenario analysis, model input parameters and allocation rules},
author = {A. Barbosa and E. Mancosu and A. Gago-Silva and A. de Bono and A. Lehmann and M. Mierla and J. Hanganu and A. Littkopf},
url = {http://envirogrids.net/indexa4c5.html?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=13&view=view.download&catid=12&cid=120 / http://envirogrids.net/envirogrids_d3_7a10b.pdf?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=13&view=finish&cid=120&catid=12},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-07-06},
institution = {EnviroGRIDS},
abstract = {The enviroGRIDS scenarios comprise a number of plausible alternatives (storylines) based on a coherent set of assumptions, key relationships and driving forces, to create a set of quantitative, internally consistent and spatially explicit scenarios of future demography, climate and land use covering the entire Black Sea Catchment (BSC).
This report presents the analyses of the land use scenarios, a review of the combined method used to quantify the enviroGRIDS land use demand and the disaggregation of the global scenarios at a regional scale. Global land use demand was obtained from IMAGE 2.2 and disaggregated at regional (NUTS2) level. Afterwards a cellular automaton based land use model was applied to allocate the land use demands at local level. Land use allocation rules were assigned based on the scenario storylines and local decision rules. As a result, four alternative land use scenarios were derived: BS HOT, BS ALONE, BS COOP and BS COOL. The designation of allocation rules introduces local decisions based not only on the scenario storylines and expert knowledge but also on historical land use patterns. The method used can fill the gap between the global and regional scales and consequently translate land use patterns at various spatial levels.},
keywords = {Climate Change, EnviroGRIDS, Geotechnology, Land and soil},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {techreport}
}
This report presents the analyses of the land use scenarios, a review of the combined method used to quantify the enviroGRIDS land use demand and the disaggregation of the global scenarios at a regional scale. Global land use demand was obtained from IMAGE 2.2 and disaggregated at regional (NUTS2) level. Afterwards a cellular automaton based land use model was applied to allocate the land use demands at local level. Land use allocation rules were assigned based on the scenario storylines and local decision rules. As a result, four alternative land use scenarios were derived: BS HOT, BS ALONE, BS COOP and BS COOL. The designation of allocation rules introduces local decisions based not only on the scenario storylines and expert knowledge but also on historical land use patterns. The method used can fill the gap between the global and regional scales and consequently translate land use patterns at various spatial levels.

Ivanov, E.; Barbosa, A.
Existing scenarios and data compilation on integrated scenarios using demographic, climatic, land cover from global and Black Sea Basin studies Technical Report
EnviroGRIDS 2010.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Climate Change, EnviroGRIDS, Geotechnology
@techreport{Ivanov2010,
title = {Existing scenarios and data compilation on integrated scenarios using demographic, climatic, land cover from global and Black Sea Basin studies},
author = {E. Ivanov and A. Barbosa},
url = {http://envirogrids.net/index8f0c.html?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=13&view=view.download&catid=12&cid=100 / http://envirogrids.net/envirogrids_d343644.pdf?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=13&view=finish&cid=100&catid=12},
year = {2010},
date = {2010-09-25},
journal = {EnviroGRIDS},
pages = {70},
institution = {EnviroGRIDS},
abstract = {This report presents an overview of different existing scenarios for the territory of the Black Sea Basin. Main sources include the IPCC, GSG and GEO scenarios. They are global scenarios with either country or broaderregion calculations of future changes, like plausible changes for Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Consequently, a number of driving forces were extracted and shortly presented in graphs outlining the trajectories of most plausible changes in the Black Sea Basin. Storyline descriptions per group of country were developed following the IPCC approach and applying the existing predictions of future GDP and population density numbers. The report concludes with an overview of integrated tools for environmental scenario development.},
keywords = {Climate Change, EnviroGRIDS, Geotechnology},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {techreport}
}

Barbosa, A.; Ivanov, E.; Mancosu, E.; Hanganu, J.
Land cover model inputs and efficient data model with possibilities to be updated Technical Report
EnviroGRIDS 2010.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Climate Change, EnviroGRIDS, Geotechnology, Land and soil
@techreport{Barbosa2010,
title = {Land cover model inputs and efficient data model with possibilities to be updated},
author = {A. Barbosa and E. Ivanov and E. Mancosu and J. Hanganu},
editor = {Autonomous University of Barcelona},
url = {http://envirogrids.net/indexae9e.html?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=13&view=view.download&catid=12&cid=33},
year = {2010},
date = {2010-03-01},
journal = {enviroGRIDS},
pages = {82},
institution = {EnviroGRIDS},
keywords = {Climate Change, EnviroGRIDS, Geotechnology, Land and soil},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {techreport}
}
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