[FRB-CESAB ITTECOP – call for proposals – 2024]

Transport infrastructures, energies, territories, ecosystem and landscapes

 

The research and innovation service within the ministry of ecological transition in charge of the national programme ITTECOP, and in partnership with the ADEME, will launch, in April 2024, a new call for proposals under the theme: “Impacts of human infrastructures (transport and renewable energy production) on biodiversity”.

The project seeks the analysis of sets of already acquired data which can be gathered and constructed (from dispersed data sets, data available in the literature, etc.) during the project with the following objectives, among others:  

• Assessing the impacts of these infrastructures on some facets of biodiversity (genetic, specific, functional or ecosystemic), all taxonomic groups being potentially concerned; 
• Determining how the design of the infrastructures can affect biodiversity based on existing biodiversity, management of natural environments and wildlife, and surrounding territories; 
• Evaluating how the management of infrastructures and their “naturalized” part can influence these impacts in interaction with the surrounding natural environments; 
• Identifying and analyzing the economic, socio-technical and political factors that contribute to the deployment of these infrastructures and the degree to which they take biodiversity into account.

A project has been funded for a duration of 3 years under this call, namely the ESEB project – Impacts of European solar energy infrastructure on biodiversity: integrating existing knowledge to enable Nature Positive management and financial investments – coordinated by Alona ARMSTRONG (University of Lancaster, UK) and Armin BISCHOFF (University of Avignon, FRA).

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