Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Beklioğlu M., Dolcerocca A. P. C.
UFUK 2020 Projesi, RIA, Araştırma ve Yenilikçilik Eylemleri Projesi, 2020 - 2024
Ponds and “pondscapes” (networks of ponds) are crucial for biodiversity
conservation and their multiple societally beneficial ecosystem services
(ES) provide the means to play a crucial role in mitigating and
adapting to climate change. However, ponds are largely neglected in
water- and nature-related policies and there is insufficient knowledge
on how to manage and restore ponds to maximize their role as
nature-based solutions (NBS) to increase resilience of ecosystems and
society to climate change (CC). The overarching aim of PONDERFUL is to
facilitate improved implementation of ponds NBS for CC mitigation and
adaptation, biodiversity conservation and delivery of ES through
generating and integrating biodiversity, ecosystems, social, economic
and policy knowledge and providing evidence-based guidance and tools for
pond NBS implementation. To achieve this, PONDERFUL will: 1) evaluate
the interactions and feedbacks between biodiversity, ES and climate in
pondscapes at multiple spatial scales; 2) together with stakeholders,
develop future scenarios for pondscapes in EU and CELAC in the context
of CC, land use change, and changed policies; 3) develop and test the
implementation of effective multifunctional NBS in close collaboration
with the stakeholders using DEMOnstration sites in EU and CELAC
countries; 4) develop a sustainable finance and investment guide for
NBS, in collaboration with local stakeholders; 5) assess the potential
for large-scale implementation of the proposed NBS in relation to
existing barriers, enabling factors, financing and as economic
viability, as well as social perceptions of benefits from pond NBS.
Ultimately, the stakeholder-oriented approach adopted by PONDERFUL will
ensure that the scientific knowledge produced on the benefits of using
pondscapes as ecosystems delivering multiple ES is explicitly considered
in decision making from local management to EU policies.