Coupling water, fire and climate resilience with biomass production in Forestry to adapt watersheds to climate change (LIFE RESILIENT FORESTS)

Description:

LIFE Resilient Forest has developed a Multi-Objective Decision Support System, CAFE, for forest management which promotes a forest management approach that improves forests resilience to wildfires, water scarcity, environmental degradation and other effects induced by climate change. This tool determines the optimum silvicultural activities to manage multiple goods and services such as biomass production, carbon sequestration, fire risk, water provisioning, climatic resilience or biodiversity, which are simultaneously quantified in time and space for a selected solution. To that end, CAFE combines eco-hydrological simulation and multi-objectives optimization with evolutionary algorithms. It also includes an interactive visualization of the results that allows the user to understand and select the most appropriate option.

Project information

Lead

Universitat Politcnica de Valencia

Partners

Ayuntamiento de Serra, Spain; Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany; European Biomass Industry Association, Belgium; Associação para o Desenvolvimento da Aerodinâmica Industrial, Portugal

Source of funding

LIFE17 CCA/ES/000063: Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2,013,973.00; European Union funding: EUR 1,192,420.00