The LUC4C consortium are 15 partners from 11 countries, including one partner each from Russia, from China, South Africa and the U.S.A. The partners represent different research environments including universities, government-funded research institutes and agencies, and small-medium enterprises. They combine broad expertise in climate and ecosystem sciences, integrated assessment approaches and environmental policy.
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is a higher education and research organization and member of the Helmholtz Association. Within the KIT, the Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU) concentrates on the interactions between the land surface, atmospheric composition, and climate and land use changes.
Modelling biogeochemical processes, ecosystem services, climate change-crop/yield interactions, bridge to the global FLUXNET of ecosystem eddy covariance carbon and water flux measurement network
The UNEXE is a leading international research intensive university with research expertise in some of the most fundamental issues facing the world today, from functional materials to climate change. The UNEXE is also a member of the Food Security and Land Research Alliance, whose aims are to help secure global food security and ensure resilient land management.
Modelling the global C-cycle and its interactions with climate change and the climate-chemistry system, model evaluation, quantification and attribution of climate-carbon cycle feedbacks, data synthesis
CNRS, the French national centre for scientific research, is a public research organisation with service and research units throughout the country. Two different research units of CNRS will be involved in LUC4C, IMBE and LSCE.
The Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie marine et continentale (CNRS-IMBE) is a new Joint Research Unit, with the explicit aim to develop new approaches for science-based integrated management of biodiversity and ecosystems. IMBE is a joint research unit belonging to CNRS and Aix-Marseille University.
The Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et del'Environnement (CNRS-LSCE) is a joint venture of CEA, CNRS and UVSQ and is linked to IPSL (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace). LSCE is a leader in biogeochemical and climate modelling and the assimilation of data on land surface properties.
IMBE: Regional and global crop modelling in DGVMs, water cycle modelling, linking biodiversity, ecosystem function and ecosystem services
LSCE: Net climate change effects of land cover change (biophysical), climate change-crop yield interactions, earth observations (inversions of atmospheric CO2 concentrations), model evaluation, quantification of uncertainties
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The Met Office is the national meteorological office for the United Kingdom and includes the Hadley Centre, a world-leading centre for the scientific issues associated with climate change.
Net climate change effects of land cover change (biogeochemical), metrics of climate change, climate change feedbacks and model evaluation
The University of Edinburgh is one of the largest and most successful universities in the UK, with an international reputation as a centre of academic excellence. In June 2008, the Times rated the university in the world top 8 for Ecology and Environment research.
Land-use & land-cover change modelling (agent-based modelling), uncertainties of LULCC models, human decision making, link LULCC models to DGVM
The Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) is the oldest interdisciplinary environmental research institute in the Netherlands.
Land-use & land-cover change modelling, ecosystem services, trade-off analysis, climate change impacts (flood risk assessment), policy analysis, stakeholder engagement
The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), founded in 1992, is a non-profit research institute addressing scientific questions in the fields of global change, climate impacts and sustainable development. The institute is a member of the Leibniz Association, funded through the German federal government and the Federal State of Brandenburg.
Macro-economic analyses, integrated assessment modelling, scenarios of adaptation and mitigation, analysis of land-use-based mitigation trade-offs and interaction with other sectors, land-use and land-cover change modelling
The PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency conducts scientific assessments and policy evaluations to support policy-making in the field of environmental protection and spatial planning.
Integrated assessment modelling, scenarios of adaptation and mitigation, analysis of interactions of energy sector with LULCC trade-offs, ecosystem services and biodiversity, historic land- use reconstructions (HYDE)
The Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) is one of the seven institutes of the JRC (European Commission). The mission of IES is to provide scientific and technical support to EU strategies for the protection of the environment and sustainable development.
Analysis of earth observation data, active partner in FLUXNET, data-model integration, model evaluation, land-use and land-cover change observations, policy interface, MRV methodology
CMCC is a non-profit research institution, established in 2005 as the Italian research centre on climate science and policy.
Carbon-effects of reforestation, afforestation & deforestation; C-pool observations, trace gas flux measurements esp. in Africa. MRV; policy link; active partner in FLUXNET
denkstatt Bulgaria is the premier consultancy in the field of sustainability and environmental management in Bulgaria, a member of the larger denkstatt Group with consultant offices in Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Serbia and Spain.
Climate policy analyses; stakeholder engagement processes, valuation techniques, LCA and GHG inventories
RSAU-MTAA is the leading agricultural university in Russia, and the official RF and NIS methodological centre in the field of agricultural higher education.
Observations of land-use change impacts in Eurasia, contribution of regional flux tower data set and remote sensing expertise
The U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is a federally funded research and development centre devoted to service, research and education in the atmospheric and related sciences. It is located in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Land-use change and Integrated Assessment modelling, economics of land use change
The Climate System Analysis Group of University of Capetown (UCT) specifies in climate modelling and developing regional climate change scenarios for southern Africa.
Regional climate change, downscaling of GCM output; UCT adds expertise on the Sub-saharan African focal region
Partner College of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Peking University (PKU), participates as expert partner on the regional focus region Asia, with ongoing activities on carbon cycle modelling in the climate change-land use change interplay.
Terrestrial C-cycle modelling