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| Titel |
Future Earth -- New Approaches to address Climate Change and Sustainability
in the MENA Region |
| VerfasserIn |
Manfred Lange, Rana Abu Alhaija |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2016
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
en
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 18 (2016) |
| Datensatznummer |
250136491
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2016-17536.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Interactions and feedbacks between rapidly increasing multiple pressures on water, energy
and food security drive social-ecological systems at multiple scales towards critical
thresholds in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East and North
Africa (MENA Region). These pressures, including climate change, the growing
demand on resources and resource degradation, urbanization and globalization, cause
unprecedented challenges for countries and communities in the region. Responding to
these challenges requires integrated science and a closer relationship with policy
makers and stakeholders. Future Earth has been designed to respond to these urgent
needs.
In order to pursue such objectives, Future Earth is becoming the host organization for
some 23 programs that were previously run under four global environmental change
programmes, DIVERSITAS, the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), the
International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) and the World Climate Research
Programme (WCRP). Some further projects arose out of the Earth System Science
Partnership (ESSP). It thus brings together a wide spectrum of expertise and knowledge that
will be instrumental in tackling urgent problems in the MENA region and the wider
Mediterranean Basin.
Future Earth is being administered by a globally distributed secretariat that also includes a
series of Regional Centers, which will be the nuclei for the development of new regional
networks. The Cyprus Institute in Nicosia, Cyprus (CyI; www.cyi.ac.cy) is hosting the
Regional Center for the MENA Region.
The CyI is a non-profit research and post-graduate education institution with a
strong scientific and technological orientation and a distinctive regional, Eastern
Mediterranean scope. Cyprus at the crossroads of three continents and open to all nations
in the region provides excellent conditions for advancing the research agenda of
Future Earth in the MENA Region. Given the recent and ongoing major political and
societal transformation in the region, research and development that help prepare the
MENA countries for anticipated global changes and advance the development of
sustainable structures are not only meaningful, but also a quite challenging undertakings. |
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