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Pastures vulnerability and adaptation strategies to climate change impacts in the Alps (LIFE PASTORALP)

Description:

The overall aim of the LIFE PASTORALP project is to reduce the vulnerability and increase the resilience of alpine pasture agriculture by assessing and testing adaptation measures, increasing capacity building and developing improved management strategies for climate change adaptation. The achievement of this goal will be based upon a solid science-based knowledge of future climate change impacts on pastoral communities located in two national parks, (the Parc National des Ecrins in France and the Parco Nazionale Gran Paradiso in Italy) in the western Alps, as examples of the alpine environment. Another goal of the project is the deployment of the PASTORALP platform tools for facilitating the development and adoption in the two parks of climate change adaptation strategies, which can then be transferred to other pastoral ecosystems across the Alps, along with the creation of guidelines and recommendations for adaptation planning.

In particular, the project will provide improved and alternative criteria for well-informed decision-making by enhancing the knowledge base at local, regional and national level on: (i) climate change projections targeted to the Alps, (ii) vulnerability of pasturelands, (iii) strategies for sustainable pastoralism and, (iv) the demonstration and evaluation of the effectiveness of the adaptation measures.

Expected results: The project will downscale future climate scenarios for the study areas by collecting homogenised pasture (six pasture typologies) and climate data (20 datasets) along with the definition of more than ten environmental and socio-economic indicators of alpine pasture agro-ecological systems status. Importantly, more than 30 stakeholders are expected to be involved throughout the implementation of the project. Additionally, the PASTORALP platform tools are likely to be positively evaluated and will further promote adaptive strategies in the western Alps.

Project information

Lead

Università degli Studi di Firenze

Partners

Institut Agricole Régional, Italy

INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE, France

Parc National des Ecrins, France

Ente Parco Nazionale Gran Paradiso, Italy

National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture, France

Agenzia Regionale Protezione Ambiente - Valle d'Aosta, Italy

Source of funding

LIFE Programme

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Published in Climate-ADAPT Jan 08 2019   -   Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Dec 12 2023

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