Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Land Use
FutureScapes focuses on developing innovative solutions to address biodiversity loss and climate change. The main goals are to identify complex interconnections and co-benefits of biodiversity and carbon stocks and fluxes and to integrate this new knowledge into high-resolution, large-scale spatial models that can be used to produce robust, feasible scenarios and decision-support tools for land use planning.
We will identify, analyze and link quantitatively the complex relationships between biodiversity patterns/functions, ecosystem carbon storage, sequestration and greenhouse gas emission from local to national level. By using geospatial data (incl. satellite data) and machine learning based spatial modelling, we will upscale the knowledge and relationships to regional level and implement in spatially explicit land use planning and management, considering the socioeconomic fabric of landowners and land users.
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Funding agency: Estonian Research Council
Principal investigator: Evelyn Uuemaa, 1.01.2024−31.12.2030
