Land use

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Wetlands as game-changers for climate change mitigation and adaptation

Published 16.10.2023

Wetlands are natural water ecosystems that can help to mitigate the physical impacts of multi-hazards and extreme events. Despite its high potential, wetlands have been overlooked and are rarely considered in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes, argues CICERO researchers together with Wetlands International Europe.

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Projects

GREENLEAP

Greening Achilles heel sectors: Understanding environmental policy change in Latin American primary industries. An introduction to the research project GREENLEAP.

Land use | Technology for change | Renewable energy

LAMACLIMA – Land Management for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation

The LAMACLIMA project aims to advance the understanding of the coupled effects between land cover and land management, climate and the economy, informing sustainable land-based adaptation and mitigation.

Climate impacts internationally | Forests | Food and agriculture | Heat waves | Land use

Local environmental agreements' contribution to sustainable land and transport development

In this project we looked at the potential of comprehensive urban environment agreements to achieve sustainable housing, area and transport development

Land use | Transport | Climate transition in Norwegian municipalities

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Research groups

Climate and health

The climate and health research group is an interdisciplinary group with strong competence within a range of areas of relevance to health impact assessment.

Climate and nature risk

The research group models and analyzes climate impacts on nature, society and the economy, performs scenario analyses, and conducts stress tests based on its knowledge and expertise in using climate and economic models and climate and other environmental data.

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