AGricultural Land AbandoNment and ClimatE change
Role: Scientific Leadership
REF: ESA Contract No. ESA n. 4000145543/24/I-LR
Period: 2023 – 2026 (36 months)
Keywords: water cycle, energy cycle, carbon cycle, land use change
Partners:
- Politecnico di Milano
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto di Ricerca per la Protezione Idrogeologica (CNR-IRPI)
- University of Ghent (UG)
- TU Wien (TUW)
- CSIC
Total Budget: 500k€
Internal budget: 115 k€
Description: GLANCE project explores the socio-ecohydrological interconnections between people, water, and forests in the Mediterranean region. It focuses on understanding how agricultural land abandonment and climate change, since the end of World War II, have influenced forest carbon dynamics, as well as water and energy cycles. The project leverages data from the ESA Climate Change Initiative to uncover these impacts.
Website: https://climate.esa.int/en/about-us-new/climate-change-initiative/
