StrategyMedFor
Strategy for the Sustainable Management of Mediterranean Forests
Project summary
The StrategyMedFor project gathers 7 partners in 6 countries of the Interreg Cooperation area (including 2 IPA countries) and associated institutions from the forest EU & international scene to protect, restore & valorise particularly the Mediterranean Forest Ecosystem. The main goal is the development of a Strategy for Sustainable Management of Mediterranean Forests (SSMMF) targeted to each forest type & adapted to foreseeable climate scenarios, through the integration of new technologies & wide-Mediterranean data into a spatial context, combining geospatial data, remote sensing, GIS & climate modelling in the development of the Strategy.
Scientific-sound recommendations about how & which forests to protect, restore or manage into resilience, specific tools such as thematic cartography about the status of forests in real time, & the priority areas for action are envisaged.
Our role
Main outputs
Strategy for Sustainable Management of Mediterranean Forests (SSMMF)
Organisations cooperating across borders for the Sustainable Management of the Mediterranean Forest ecosystem
Geospatial tools for the evaluation of Mediterranean forests status, identification of impacts on forests and actions to protect, restore or manage them
Joint Development of action plans for forest sustainable management on test sites
A 10-year (2026-2035) Strategy of the Medforval network of HEV Mediterranean forests updated by transposing the knowledge generated in WP1 and WP2
Management plan for the Prespa transboundary area
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...
Ana Isabel Marín
aimarin@uma.es
Ana (PhD) is an environmental researcher and GIS specialist at the European Topic Centre of University of Málaga. She holds a European-mention PhD in Environmental Science, an MSc in regional planning and a BSc in Environmental Sciences...
Our partners
Istituto Oikos Onlus, Italy
National Center for Forest Owners (CNPF), France
International Association for Mediterranean Forests (AIFM), France
CIHEAM - Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (CIHEAM-MAICh), Greece
Public Institution Galicica National Park (PIGNP), North Macedonia
Faculty of Forestry, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Job offer – Junior spatial data analyst, with focus on wetlands
ETC-UMA is opening a vacancy to recruit a motivated and qualified candidate to work as a junior spatial data officer with a focus on wetlands. This position seeks to consolidate ETC-UMA´s working area in wetland conservation research and is related ...
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
The IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation with the support of ETC-UMA in the framework of the Blue Tourism Initiative, has released a comprehensive report entitled “Mapping the Impact of Blue Tourism in the Mediterranean: Vulnerability Assessment of Coastal and Marine ...
StrategyMedFor Presented at Annual Medforval Meeting 2024
StrategyMedFor was prominently featured at the Annual Medforval Meeting 2024, held from June 5-7 in Fontecchio, Italy. The event brought together 25 practitioners from national parks and natural reserves across 9 Mediterranean countries, providing a valuable platform for StrategyMedFor to ...
Celebrating leadership in environmental management: an interview with Dania Abdul Malak
From designing integrated ecosystem assessments in Europe and the Mediterranean to transforming outcomes into evidence-based recommendations for regional stakeholders, the European Topic Centre on Spatial Analysis and Synthesis (ETC-UMA) stands as a flagship for territorial cooperation. At the forefront of ...
Save the date! Unlocking solutions for coastal conservation in Europe
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Towards a Strategy for the Sustainable Management of Mediterranean Forests (StrategyMedFor)
The StrategyMedFor project, co-financed by the Interreg Euro-MED programme, was launched at the University of Malaga during a two day meeting that took place on March 18 and 19, 2024. The European Topic Centre on Spatial Analysis and Synthesis (ETC-UMA), ...
Collaborative science for forests by ETC-UMA showcased in Slovenia during the COP23
As UNEP MAP partner organization, ETC-UMA recently engaged in the organization of a session with Mediterranean institutions under the topic of climate change, entitled: From COASTAL to FOREST ecosystems: Mediterranean Nature-based Solutions to tackle climate change and ensure the Resilience ...
Tools for conserving the Spanish coast
On the initiative of the Instituto Universitario Hábitat Territorio y Digitalización (iHTD) of the University of Malaga, around 70 representatives of Spanish public administrations, researchers, architecture and environmental science players and civil society signed up to the second debate on ...
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Looking back and forth to Mediterranean Forests
Timely published to enrich the knowledge available to fight fires and climate change challenges after an extremely hot summer, the proceedings of the Seventh Mediterranean Forest Week “Forest and Ecosystem Restoration for the next Mediterranean Generations” held from 21 to ...
More space for innovative Mediterranean forest data partnerships
The report entitled A knowledge baseline on Mediterranean forests supported by innovation launched in July by ETC-UMA provides a highlight of what Mediterranean countries and institutions are doing to integrate new digital, satellite and Artificial Intelligence technologies into forest monitoring ...
The Earth from Space shown by ETC-UMA at FANTEC 2023
Students from 80 centers from all over Andalusia came together on Friday 19 May 2023 at the High School of Industrial Engineering of the University of Malaga to participate, one more year, in the Andalusian Technology Fair 2023. Antonio Sanchez ...
ETC-UMA launches new technologies applied to ecosystem knowledge
Built on the Google Earth Engine cloud computing platform, the new wetland monitoring system based on remote sensing data, developed by ETC-UMA and presented in April 2023 at the National Centre for Environmental Education (CENEAM by its acronym in Spanish) ...