Project Profile: ECCAP
Ecological Calendars and Climate Adaptation in the Pamirs
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | Karim-Aly Kassam, Cornell University, United States |
| Partners: | Antonio Trabucco, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Italy Jianchu Xu, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Cyrus Samimi, University of Bayreuth, Germany Kachra Ariff, University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan |
| Sponsors: | National Research Council - Department of Earth System Science and Environmental Technologies, Italy German Research Foundation, Germany National Natural Science Foundation of China, China National Science Foundation, United States |
What?
| Full Project Title: | Ecological Calendars and Climate Adaptation in the Pamirs |
| Full Call Title: | Mountains2015 |
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Why?
| Project Objective: | ECCAP's research will contribute to the anticipatory capacity of Pamiri communities by revitalizing calendars. The project will provide a proof-of-concept to be applied in mountain societies across the globe, culminating in an international conference on ecological calendars for building community resilience to climate change. |
| Call Objective: | This call aims at fostering research on climate, environmental and related societal change in mountain regions, considering both new measurements, recovery of existing data, and the development and use of integrated modelling strategies by adopting a strong trans- and inter-disciplinary approach. |
Where?
| Regions: | Asia |
| Countries: | Afghanistan, China, Tajikistan |
When?
| Duration: | |
| Call Date: | April 1, 2015 |
| Project Award Date: | 2015 |
