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The Development and Validation of Microbial Soil Community Analyses for Forensics Purposes (MISAFE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2015,

Crime-fighting is a significant concern of the European Union. The EU is committed to fighting all forms of serious, organised and transnational crime. This commitment has led to the decision in 1999 to create a network of national authorities responsible for crime prevention, and later to the establishment (in 2001) of the European Crime Prevention Network and specifically, in the support of fore ...
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COmmunity-based Management of EnvironmenTal challenges in Latin America (COMET-LA)

Start date: Jan 15, 2012, End date: Jan 14, 2015,

Current development models are leading to unprecedented environmental challenges, chief amongst them, climate change. How to respond to these challenges are key research questions. Although they are global problems, their effects are felt locally, especially by the communities that traditionally base their livelihoods in those natural resources. The relevance of these problems at global level has ...
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Farming Transitions: Pathways Towards Regional Sustainability of Agriculture in Europe (FarmPath)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2014,

In FarmPath, we propose that increasing sustainability in agriculture is best addressed by enabling flexible combinations of farming models, which vary to reflect the specific opportunity sets embedded in regional culture, agricultural capability, diversification potential, ecology, and historic ownership and governance structures. We will enable progress towards this goal of increased regional s ...
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Adaptive Strategies to Mitigate the Impacts of Climate Change on European Freshwater Ecosystems (REFRESH)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

Understanding how freshwater ecosystems will respond to future climate change is essential for the development of policies and implementation strategies needed to protect aquatic and riparian ecosystems. The future status of freshwater ecosystems is however, also dependent on changes in land-use, pollution loading and water demand. In addition the measures that need to be taken to restore freshwat ...
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Low Carbon at Work: Modelling agents and organisations to achieve transition to a low carbon Europe (LOCAW)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"The project will provide a theoretically and empirically grounded analysis of everyday practices in the workplace, of the macro and micro-level processes which act as drivers for and constraints upon sustainable practices in different types of workplaces across different European countries, and the relationship between work and outside work practices.These analyses will constitute the empirical b ...
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"Governance, Infrastructure, Lifestyle Dynamics and Energy Demand: European Post-Carbon Communities" (GILDED)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

"In Europe, about 35% of all primary energy use and 40% of all greenhouse gas emissions come from private households. While technological innovation can make low-carbon energy sources economically and environmentally viable, their impact in reducing carbon-intensive energy use will depend critically on broad public and political commitment to such a reduction. GILDED will target socio-economic, cu ...
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