Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Scenarios Network

ScenNet

Call

  • Biodiversity 1

Project Website

http://www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/scennet

Principal Investigator

Sandra Lavorel, CNRS, Grenoble, France and Wilfried Thuiller, CNRS, Grenoble, France

Partners

Osamu Saito, UNUIAS, Japan Mingchang Cao, NIES, Nanjing, China John-Arvid Grytnes, University of Bergen, The Netherlands Jean Paul Metzger, University of São Paulo, Brazil Guy Franklin Midgley, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Katrin Boehning-Gaese, Goethe University, Germany Simon Ferrier, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia Paul Leadley, Université Paris-Sud, France Philippe Cury, Université Montpellier II, France Wolfgang Cramer, IMBE, Aix-en-Provence, France FRB, Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversité, France Brendan A. Wintle, University of Melbourne, Australia Walter Jetz, Yale University, New Haven Dr. Sathyapalan Jyothis, CESS, India Karachepone Ninan, Institute for Social and Economic Change, India

Funders

  • ANR (The French National Research Agency), CSIRO (The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), DFG (German Research Foundation), FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation), JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency), MoES (Ministry of Earth Sciences), NRF (National Research Foundation), NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China), RCN (Research Council of Norway)

Project Objective

The goal of the ScenNet project is to strengthen national and international ties between researchers working on scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem services. At the global level, this project will support the newly initiated Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and reinforce the recently launched interdisciplinary global change program, Future Earth. Strong ties and coherence with these are ensured through significant participation of researchers involved in both IPBES and Future Earth.

Call Objective

The objective of this call is to stimulate the formation of international networks of scientists and the advancement of the inter- and trans-disciplinary methodologies of scenario-building needed to enhance usefulness of biodiversity scenarios in decision-making.

Region

Country

Duration

Call Date

June 9, 2014

Project Award Date

2014