H2020Индивидуална стипендия2022–2024

Space4Giants · Safeguarding Space for Giants: building sustainable infrastructure for the benefit of nature and people

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2022-01-04 → 2024-01-03
Финансиране от ЕС: 224 934 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите.

Накратко на български

Транспортната инфраструктура в Южна Кения и нейното влияние върху средата и движението на слоновете се анализират чрез промените в земята. Това помага за планирането на по-устойчив транспорт и подобряване на съжителството между хората и животните.

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Резултати накратко

Safeguarding Space for Giants: building sustainable infrastructure for the benefit of nature and people

The key aim of the Space4Giants project will be to assess the changing nature of the impacts of transportation infrastructure, directly and indirectly on elephants, their habitat, use of the land by local communities to inform future human-elephant coexistence, and the development of more harmonised sustainable transport infrastructure. Space4Giants has five specific objectives thus: 1. Build personal capacity, expertise and leadership in global change research and landscape conservation planning through cross-disciplinary training and collaboration with UoY-based institutions and external institutions, make contributions to ongoing research at UoY, teaching and research supervision. 2. Undertake a spatial assessment of land-use land cover change (LULCC) to establish the extent of habitat fragmentation and disturbance on elephants in the wider Amboseli-Tsavo Conservation Area (ATCA) in southern Kenya. 3. Investigate the intensity and the extent to which elephant activity may be impacted by transportation infrastructure, traffic and associated land-use change within the Amboseli-Tsavo Conservation Area (ATCA) in southern Kenya. 4. Identify the socio-economic and ecological factors affecting community and elephant relationships with transport infrastructure using the KESHO land-use scenario tool through participatory workshops within the Amboseli-Tsavo Conservation Area (ATCA) in southern Kenya. 5. Communicate and disseminate the key findings of the project to key project partners through various platforms and media in Kenya and across the globe. 6. Increase external leveraged support by drafting an application submitted for continued development of the Corridors research, possibly to the Adaptation Research Alliance or GEF.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The growth of transportation infrastructure since the turn of the century has been phenomenal and is expected to expand significantly by 2050, especially in Africa and Asia, under the Chinese global Belt and Road Initiative. Despite positives, this growth presents potential adverse outcomes for nature and people, especially in biodiversity-rich nations, such as Kenya. It is expected that the impacts will affect large and charismatic terrestrial giants such as elephants that depend on high mobility and open spaces for climatic and anthropogenic impact adaptation. In Kenya, large and numerous infrastructure projects and rapidly changing land-use systems are found within biodiversity-rich and fragile ecosystems such as the Amboseli-Tsavo Conservation Area in the south-eastern part of the country, hosting Kenya’s largest elephant population. Elephants are important flagship species that significantly influence conservation efforts in many parts of Africa. Understanding the consequences of transportation infrastructure is important for their management and conservation, and securing their spaces and livelihoods depending on the resources in these spaces. The Space4Giants project will assess the impacts and interactions between changing human population, environments, infrastructure, and development at a landscape scale in the recent past and the near future. The findings of this study will support the development of tools and capacity that will provide insight into the socio-ecological-environmental impacts of linear infrastructure in Kenya that will be used to mitigate the impacts nationally with the potential to be applied across the Global South.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITY OF YORK · YORK NORTH YORKSHIREКоординаторОбединеното кралство