UEvora - University of Évora | Labscape
UEVORA is a public that a network of 18 Research Units, submitted to international evaluation by the Institute for Research and Advanced Studies. MED is one of these research units with 445 researchers. MED is focused on the sustainability of ecosystems and food systems in the Mediterranean context, which the main goals are to: Improving resource use efficiency and competitive agriculture; Improving sustainability of food system while preserving the mediterranean diet; Assuring biodiversity conservation and landscape multi-functionality; Promoting organizational capability and governance mechanisms; Identifying pathways towards resilience and adaptation under known climate change scenarios. MED is part of the Associated Lab CHANGE that also includes the R&D Units cE3c (University of Lisbon) and CENSE (New University of Lisbon). CHANGE mission is to identify scientifically supported public policy and governance solutions targeting an environmentally friendly, resource-efficient, and competitive economy in the context of ongoing global changes.
Labscape is a research team integrated in MED, specifically focused on rural landscapes in the Mediterranean and their complex processes or change, from natural resources to human activities and communities. LABscape has a systemic and interdisciplinary approach organized in six thematic lines, strongly interconnected: Trans-disciplinarity and Co-construction; Innovation Processes and Governance; Sustainability Assessments; Monitoring and Indicators; Management and Policies and Soil and Water.
Role in the project
UEVORA is leading the WP5 - Enabling policies for AFS adoption with the collaboration of local partners in each country. In this WP, UEVORA will develop a tailored approach to a result-based model (RBM) to specific high nature value agroforestry system. In order to achieve this goal UEVORA will identify and contact the key stakeholder in policy design and deliberation at the national context. Together with them, it will map the policy context and identify the entry points for an RBM. From the information gathered also in the other WPs, tailor-made proposals will be developed and validated with local stakeholders. As RBM imply a change of paradigm, from a top-down governance structure to one where bottom and top-down actions are integrated towards agreed environmental results, UEVORA will also create simple and pragmatic policy briefs that can be used by policy makers and promote a multi-stakeholder platform in each country to promote agroforestry RBM.
UEVORA is also actively involved in multiple tasks across several WPs.
Key Persons Involved
- Maria Helena Guimarães
- Catarina Isidoro
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