RESTORE4Cs – Modelling RESTORation of wEtlands for Carbon pathways, Climate Change mitigation and adaptation, ecosystem services, and biodiversity, Co-benefits

Addressing climate change, biodiversity loss and habitat degradation towards a sustainable management of European wetlands

Project summary

Focusing on coastal wetlands across Europe, RESTORE4Cs will deliver standardised methodologies and approaches for the prioritisation of restoration, promoting carbon-storage and GHG emissions abatement, while improving the ecological status and the provision of additional ecosystem services, such as flood regulation and coastal erosion protection. More in detail, the project will provide online, user-friendly and integrated tools as unique entry points for wetland practitioners and decision makers regarding the prioritisation of conservation and restoration actions, in relation with their GHG performance as well as impacts on biodiversity and a wide range of ecosystem services while addressing in parallel three spatial scales (local, national, regional/pan-European) combined with the three targeted habitats (wetlands, floodplans and peatlands).

Our role

The ETC-UMA team will contribute to supporting the policy and user analysis of the project, leading on the wetland mapping and assessment and coordinate the creation of a dedicated data portal for wetland related information. These inputs are based on previous collaborations with the European Environment Agency, the European Commission and the Spanish Ministry of Ecological Transition as well as the participation in a series of research projects.

More about it

Dania Abdul Malak

daniaabdulmalak@uma.es

Dania Abdul Malak is a senior environmental researcher and Director of the European Topic Centre at the University of Malaga (ETC-UMA). She has over 15 years’ experience in environmental assessment and management...

christoph.schroder@uma.es

Based on my MSc in Geography (University of Bonn) I have developed expertise in Geographic Information Systems and land use/cover change analysis from local to global scale with particular interest in the Mediterranean...

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Our partners

Universidade de Aveiro – University of Aveiro (UAVR, Portugal)

Ecologic Institut, gemeinnützige GmbH (Ecologic, Germany)

Universidad de Málaga (ETC-UMA, Spain)

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR, Italy)

Fondation Tour du Valat (TdV, France)

Universitat de València (UVEG, Spain)

Universitat de Barcelona (UB, Spain)

Wassercluster Lunz - University of Vienna (WCL, Austria)

Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH (RSS, Germany)

Vertigo Lab (France)

Universitatea din București – University of Bucarest (UNIBUC, Romania)

Klaipedos Universitetas (KU, Lithuania)

Secretariat MedWet (MedWet, France)

Università del Salento/LifeWatch ERIC (Italy)

Stichting Wageningen Research (WR, Netherlands)

Project website

This project receives funding from the European Union's Horizon 2.5 -Climate, Energy and Mobility programme under grant agreement No 101056782.

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