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Resilience thinking: a promising avenue to address the multiple challenges of our time
In the face of global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, and population growth, resilience theory offers strategies to strengthen landscapes. Learn how resilience can help navigate these complex issues. Resilience as a solution for the global triple challenge Humanity is facing a huge challenge: we need to take care – feed, provide shelter, and…
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Creating mosaic landscapes: integrating vineyards to prevent wildfires and increase resilience
Tweet Discover how agroforestry mosaic landscapes in La Plana de Manlleu, Catalonia, Northeastern Spain, with multifunctional vineyard firebreak buffers, prevent wildfires while offering socio-economic benefits and enhancing ecosystem services. In the Mediterranean region, increasing temperatures and aridity have amplified the threat and frequency of wildfires, inflicting significant damage and costs. Traditional fire mitigation approaches often…
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Resilient agriculture and forestry in the Mediterranean: what are the challenges?
Tweet Practitioners from 11 Mediterranean countries participated in a public survey to identify and understand the principal needs, barriers, bottlenecks, innovation, and knowledge gaps needed to make agriculture and forestry systems resilient to socioeconomic and climate changes. Knowing how to reinforce resilient landscapes in the Mediterranean is important to identify what the needs and challenges…
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When professionals’ experience matters: the launch of ResAlliance Landlab in Portugal
Professionals from the agricultural and forestry sectors responded extensively to the call of the ISA/UTAD scientific research teams in Portugal to share their concerns and experiences, in view of the problems observed in the northern regions of the country. The European ResAlliance project continues to deploy its tools to improve the socio-economic resilience of the…
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Protecting your home from forest fires at zero cost: saving forests and money
Tweet The FireWise communities are an inspiring example of good practices applied in the Mediterranean context that help us defend ourselves against the consequences of forest fires. These practices are being documented by the ResAlliance project to promote knowledge exchange across the region. When a house, a garden, or private land burns down, it is…
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Cyprus ResAlliance’s LandLab launch: initiating a participatory integrated landscape-resilience strategy for the island
Tweet The participatory approach of EUC-CERIDES (Centre of Excellence in Risk and Decision Sciences of the European University of Cyprus) for the Cyprus LandLab has been an opportunity to lay the foundations for an integrated landscape resilience strategy in Cyprus, under the kind auspices of the Honourable Commissioner for Environment of the Republic of Cyprus;…
Developed as part of the ResAlliance Project, this free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) brings you the latest knowledge on how climate hazards (wildfires, droughts, desertification, floods and pests) are impacting the Mediterranean region.
Explore the forefront of sustainable practices with ResAlliance! Discover the trailblazers who have addressed climate change in the Mediterranean, sharing their innovative stories through captivating videos or compelling written narratives.