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Urban metabolism accounts for building Waste management Innovative Networks and Strategies (Urban_Wins)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

The scope of the project is to develop and test methods for designing and implementing innovative and sustainable Strategic Plans for Waste Prevention and Management in various urban contexts that will enhance urban environmental resilience and guarantee progress towards more sustainable production and consumption patterns together with improvements waste recovery and recovered materials use. Ur ...
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Green Lifestyles, Alternative Models and Upscaling Regional Sustainability (GLAMURS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The overall aim of GLAMURS (Green Lifestyles, Alternative Models and Upscaling Regional Sustainability) is to develop a theoretically-based and empirically-grounded understanding of the main obstacles and prospects for transitions to sustainable lifestyles and a green economy in Europe, as well as of the most effective means to support and speed them up. The call states explicitly that for transit ...
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Policy Options for a Resource-Efficient Economy (POLFREE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

The project will construct a theoretical framework for the analysis of resource efficiency, with detailed comparison of the trends and policies at EU and Member State (MS) level, cross-country econometric analysis to derive resource-reduction cost curves, and an analysis of business barriers to resource efficiency; thereby developing an enhanced understanding of the drivers of inefficient resource ...
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DEvelopment of a System of Indicators for a Resource efficient Europe (DESIRE) (DESIRE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

"DESIRE will develop and apply an optimal set of indicators to monitor European progress towards resource-efficiency. We propose a combination of time series of environmentally extended input output data (EE IO) and the DPSIR framework to construct the indicator set. Only this approach will use a single data set that allows for consistent construction of resource efficiency indicators capturing th ...
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linking RESearch and POlicy making for managing the contradictions of sustaiNable consumption anD Economic gRowth (RESPONDER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

...owards the EU Lisbon Strategy) and the “beyond-growth community” (i.e. scientists oriented towards the limits to growth and policy makers involved in the sustainable development debate). In a series of EU dialogues a system map of sustainable consumption and economic growth will be developed together by researchers and policy makers in order to understand paradigmatic contradictions, conflicts of ...
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Compiling and Refining Environmental and Economic Accounts (CREEA) (CREEA)

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

...roject will include work and experiences from major previous projects focused on developing harmonized data sets for integrated economic and environmental accounting (most notably EXIOPOL, FORWAST, a series of Eurostat projects in Environment Accounting, and to a lesser extent EU KLEMS and WIOD). Where possible data gathered in the project will be consolidated in and enrich such existing databases ...
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Climate change integrated assessment methodology for cross-sectoral adaptation and vulnerability in Europe (CLIMSAVE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

...enefits and conflicts. Methods for reducing uncertainties and increasing the transparency of model and scenario assumptions will be implemented to inform the development of robust policy responses. A series of professionally facilitated workshops will identify stakeholder needs and test an innovative methodology for participatory scenario development specifically geared towards interactive climate ...
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InContext: Individuals in Context: Supportive Environments for Sustainable Living (InContext)

Start date: Oct 15, 2010, End date: Oct 14, 2013,

InContext will investigate drivers and barriers for sustainability and their interplay on an individual and collective level. InContext assumes that both individual and collective behaviours respond to an external context (like social norms, policies, and infrastructure) and an internal context (like needs, values and priorities). So far, initiatives to further sustainable development have focused ...
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One Planet Economy Network: Europe (OPEN: EU)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

"The goal of the One Planet Economy Network Europe project (OPEN: EU) is to help transform the EU economy to a One Planet Economy by 2050. As the world’s largest economy, Europe must embark upon an immediate and major transformation to avert dangerous climate change and prevent ecosystem collapse. Currently, the impact of the European economy is nearly three times larger than what is required for ...
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Partnering to Enhance Civil Society Organisations’ Contribution to Research in Sustainable Consumption & Production (CSOCONTRIBUTION2SCP)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

Some relative decoupling of economic growth from materials and energy consumption has been achieved in many EU countries during the past decade. However, this did not lead to an absolute decrease in environmental pressures, because absolute resource use has been generally remained steady over the past two decades. Moreover, due to the ‘rebound effect’, it is unlikely that resource use can be reduc ...
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CSO Engagement with Ecological Economics (CEECEC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

"Ecological economics (EE) and, in general, sustainability sciences make important contributions to the analyses of sustainability policies in Europe and worldwide. EE develops physical indicators and indices, provides economic valuation of environmental services and negative externalities, applies tools of multi-criteria evaluation to resource use, and promotes environmental policy instruments su ...
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