BIOCLIMAPATHS’ added value stands in exploiting knowledge co-production within a novel network of interdisciplinary research teams from Austria, Germany and Spain, and non-academic stakeholders. Our aim is to deliver a breakthrough in the methodological approach based on qualitative stakeholder inputs and quantitative modeling advancements. Five urgent research questions will be addressed:
BIOCLIMAPATHS will provide policy-relevant information and recommendations to a variety of academic and non-academic stakeholders as regards strategies and resilient pathways to achieve the EU2030 climate and energy targets with a bioeconomy approach:
1. A novel database of cross-sectoral climate risks that allow to map spatially explicit climate hazards’ impact of the biophysical dimension (biomass losses) in the bioeconomy;
2. Improvement of the state of the art in bioeconomy sector modeling to disclose the channels of climate risks’ transmission across interdependent biophysical, economic and financial systems at the subnational level with an ABM, integrated in a global input-output framework;
3. Identification of co-produced resilience solutions based on the assessment of challenges and opportunities for sustainable, inclusive and climate-resilient development in the EU under different bioeconomy pathways (food, materials and energy).
2019 - 2021
RESEARCH PARTNERS
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Phone: (+43 2236) 807 0 Fax:(+43 2236) 71 313