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Wageningen UR & SENSOR project
Marta Pérez-Soba
ALTERRA Wageningen UR
São Carlo Engineer School, University of São Paulo, 13 April 2010
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Research– Unique chain of knowledge
– From academic to applied
– Top 3: Plant & Animal Sci, Agricultral Sci & Ecology and environment
– Top 100 universities
Wageningen UR
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International orientation
Students and faculty from > 100 countries
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Relevant trends
Increasing world population and wealth– Increasing demand for food
– Growing demand for safe and healthy nutrition
– Reduction of the (pressure) on natural resources such as water
– More pressure on environment, land usage and nature
Scarcity of sweet water and energy
Competing claims: Food of Energy
Growing concern over climatic changes
Concern over global infectious diseases (animals/humans)
Higher life-expectancy of Western population, global high birth-rate
Increasing urbanisation and population density
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The Wageningen approach: biological and social
Individual
Society
Community
Household
Gene/ MoleculeGene/ Molecule
Cell
Organism
Products
Ecosystem
Planet
Policy & limiting conditions
institutions
technologies
peopleprofitplanet
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Themes for society
– Bio-based economy (use of biomass)
– Climate resistent coastal areas
– Food, Health, Behaviour
Investing in new themes
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Themes for society
– Bio-based economy (use of biomass)
– Climate resistent coastal areas
– Food, Health, Behaviour
Enabling science and technology
– Bio-nanotechnology (for food)
– Systems biology (i.r.t. genomics)
– Linking scales and governance
Investing in fields of expertise
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Co-innovation
Research
Education
Entrepreneurs
CO- INNOVATION Stakeholders
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Management Board
Wageningen
University
Dept. of Plant Sience
Dept. of Animal Science
Dept. of Food Science
Dept. of Social Science
3500
staff
5000
students
3000
staffAgricultural
Research Service
Plant Research
International
Inst. of Animal Science
Agrotechnology and Food
Science
Agro-Economics Institute
AlterraDept. of Environmental
Science
Environmental Sciences Group
Wageningen UR
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Directors
Human Resource
Management
Directors Office: Strategy,
Communication, Legal Advisors,
Tender Support
Centre
for
Geo
Information
Centre
for
Ecosystems
Studies
Centre
for
Soil Science
Centre
for
Water
and
Climate
Centre
for
Landscape
Studies
Staff
and
support
Financial and
Economic Affairs
Facility services
Environmental Sciences Group
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Climate change causes and
impact: worldwide
Leemans et al.
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Climate change adaptation:
hotspots in NL
Three rivers
Weak spots in coastal
defense
Schiphol
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Climate change adaptation:
safety
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Adaptation: Floating cities and
greenhouses
Image courtesy www.tuinbouw.nl Image courtesy www.drijvende kas.nl
Image courtesy Dura Vermeer
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Our clients
Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food
Quality
Other ministries
Local and regional governments
Nature conservation organizations
European Union
World Bank and Regional Development
Banks
Private sector
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Education in Environmental
Sciences
6 Bachelor programs
12 Master programs
PhD programs
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MSc programs (in English)
Climate Change (Earth Systems Science)
Environmental Sciences
Forest and Nature Conservation
Geo-Information Science
Hydrology and Water Quality
International Land and Water Management
Landscape Architecture and Planning
Leisure, Tourism and Environment
Meteorology and Air Quality
Soil Science
Urban Environment Management
The SENSOR project
experience
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EU Policy
Impact Assessment Guidelines (2006)
– ‘The decision to develop a policy…….should
be based on sound analysis fed by the best
data available. Impact assessment (IA) is a
key tool ….’
– ‘A formal IA is required for items on the
Commission’s Work Programme. All
regulatory proposals, White Papers,
expenditure programmes and negotiating
guidelines for international agreements….’
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Carbon and nitrogen cycles
agriculture forestry urbanCoastal zones
management
Land use
EU projects under FP6
Taken from presentation EC scientific officer Daniel Deybe
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Taken from presentation EC scientific officer Daniel Deybe
Carbon and nitrogen cycles
agriculture forestry urbanCoastal zones
management
Land use
Carbo-europe Nitro-europe
Carbo-africa
Insea
Seamless
Eforwood Plurel Spicosa
Sensor Lupis
Matisse
Adam
EU projects under FP6
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Two trends in research
“Top down processes”
Impact studies
Evaluation of policies
Objectives are defined
Researchers develop
indicators
Researcher define
normative targets
SENSOR
“Bottom up processes”
Design studies
Regional development
Objectives and indicators
defined interacting with
the researchers
Researcher have a
facilitator role
MATISSE?
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SENSOR in a nut-shell
Multifunctional
Interdisciplinary
Interaction between spatial + time scales
and three dimensions of sustainability
19 member states, 38 research institutions
including Alterra (as second partner) and
EMBRAPA
2004-2009
Budget: 12.6 M €
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SENSOR…
Develops an ex-ante Sustainability Impact
Assessment tool for land use in European
Union
– Impact on economic, environmental and
social aspects
– Multifunctional land use
– EU27 + Norway + Switzerland
– Multi-scale: member states and regions
Makes use of existing datasets
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The project team
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Build a tool that can
support decision
makers to anticipate
the effects of their
policies
Integral weighting of
the three
sustainability
dimensions
SENSOR overall objective
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ECONOMIC
SOCIETAL
ENVIRONMENTAL
Policy makers
Stakeholders
Scientists
TIME
SPACE
Sustainability (3 D)
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Sustainability: integrative concept
Normative
Many assumptions and definitions
Discipline dependent
Region dependent
Cultural dependent
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It refers always to a value that is
offered by a location
Value
Usability
Experience
Future
Monetary, non-monetary
PhD Termorshuizen, Landscape ecology 2009
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Physical structure determines the
functioning that leads to the defined
value
ValuePhysical
structureFunction
objective subjective
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Example
Sustainability
image
Reduction of GHG
emissions; energy
safety
Soil, water,
climate in Sao
Paulo state
agricultural
areas
Production of
sugarcane
Physical
structureFunction Value
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European Regional
Local
The missing link
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Scientific result
Book: Sustainability Impact Assessment of Land Use Changes
20 papers in peer reviewed journals
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Tool: Land Use Functions
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Many indicators
Carbon sequestration
Pesticide use
Verweij and te Roller, Alterra, 2009
Individual indicators –
detailed view but not the integrated picture
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THE NINE LUFs
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Aggregation scheme
Parachinni et al (2009)
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Regional stakeholders
Policy makers
Policy makers and researchers
Researchers
Sustainability Impact Assessment
of EU policies
Indicators
Database based on statistics, model outputs,
case studies
The SENSOR knowledge flow: top-downTo translate the impact that EU policy scenarios have on indicators into a sustainable impact assessment at regional level
Based on the information pyramid (World Resource Institute, 1995)
Valuation
TOP
DOWN
Policy scenarios Policy makers and researchers
LUFs
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Regional stakeholders
Policy makers
Policy makers and researchers
Researchers
Sustainability Impact Assessment
of EU policies
Indicators
Database based on statistics, model outputs,
case studies
The SENSOR knowledge flow: top-down
Based on the information pyramid (World Resource Institute, 1995)
Valuation
TOP
DOWN
Policy scenarios Policy makers and researchers
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Spatial Regional Reference Framework (SRRF)
Clusters
Calculated and edited by:C. Renetzeder, T. Wrbka (UVienna)
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How did the knowledge affect the
decision making process?
THANK
YOU
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NL compared to other EU27
countries: SOCIAL
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NL compared to other EU27
countries: ECONOMIC
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NL compared to other EU27
countries:ENVIRONMENTAL
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NL: Land Use Functions
baseline 2025