AQUACROSS aims to support EU efforts to enhance the resilience and stop the loss of biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems as well as to ensure the on going and future provision of aquatic ecosystem services. It focuses on advancing the knowledge base and application of the ecosystem-based management concept for aquatic ecosystems by developing cost effective measures and integrated management practices. AQUACROSS considers the EU policy framework (i.e. goals, concepts, time frames) for aquatic ecosystems and builds on knowledge stemming from different sources (i.e. WISE, BISE, Member State reporting, modelling) to develop innovative management tools, concepts, and business models (i.e. indicators, maps, ecosystem assessments, participatory approaches, mechanisms for promoting the delivery of ecosystem services) for aquatic ecosystems at various scales. It thereby provides an unprecedented effort to unify policy concepts, knowledge, and management concepts of freshwater, coastal, and marine ecosystems to support the cost-effective achievement of the targets set out by the EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy.
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Coordinated by Ecologic Institute EU
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European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration under Grant Agreement No. 642317
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (IOC-UNESCO), Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoek (IMARES), Fundación IMDEA Agua (IMDEA), University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management (BOKU), Universidade de Aveiro (UAVR), ACTeon – Innovation, Policy, Environment (ACTeon), University of Liverpool (ULIV), Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), University College Cork, National University of Ireland (UCC), Stockholm University, Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), Danube Delta National Institute for Research & Development (DDNI), Eidgenoessische Anstalt fuer Wasserversorgung, Abwasserreinigung und Gewaesserschutz (EAWAG), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3).
