Territórios Inteligentes 2050: sistemas biossocieconómicos & sustentabilidade ambiental
AgroSatAdapt é um projecto piloto a dois anos, com início em Outubro de 2021 e com financiamento obtido através da terceira edição do programa Promove (Fundação La Caixa).
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AgroSatAdapt fará uso de modelos que operam dados de natureza remota múltipla (satélites e outros), dados ecológicos variados, climáticos, hídricos e socioeconómicos para caracterização paisagística e integrada de regiões dominadas por atividades agrosilvopastoris. O projeto visa potenciar a região de ferramentas analíticas que promovam a gestão da paisagem e potencial produtivo com o propósito de sustentabilidade, vincada nos seus aspetos ecológicos, climáticos, hídricos e socioeconómicos - Territórios Inteligentes.
Serão identificadas zonas piloto de validação e calibração da metodologia, onde se formularão problemas dedicados, operando a diferentes escalas de gestão e coordenação, envolvendo entidades empresariais e municipais, com um propósito de planeamento otimizado antecipativo, a médio-prazo (a 2050). O enquadramento analítico e de apoio à decisão integrará uma plataforma web, que permitirá expandir e adaptar a abordagem a outras regiões e contextos biossocioeconómicos.
AgroSatAdapt will develop models to handle remote sensing, ecological, climate, water-based and socioeconomic data for an integrated characterization of a landscape dominated by agro-silvopastoral systems in the inner Alentejo region.
The project will deliver an analytical toolset to prompt policies for sustainable land use while providing maximized production profits. The identification of opportunities for the establishment of self-sustainable production systems in the region will be fostered. Several equilibria states will be explored where differential balances among multiple landscape uses and functions such as ecology, climate (through carbon sequestration via soils and stable vegetation), water-cycle and socioeconomy, will be tested: Smart Territories.
AgroSatAdapt will act at pilot regions in inner Alentejo , characterized by land use policies and coordination architectures of distinct nature: 1) the territory under the responsibility of the Reguengos de Monsaraz municipality; 2) the farms of Herdade do Esporão and the ones of its suppliers (olive groves, vineyards) and 3) the area under the scope of EDIA, a semi-public company which controls water distribution in the production area under the influence of the Alqueva reservoir. These sub-systems entangle distinct management purposes, scales of action and coordination. For each of the three sub-systems and for the whole target regions optimized land use/production management proposals at long-term (up to 2050) will be delivered, with particular attention to the effects of climate change over production profitability, biodiversity health and water availability. Aspects over Natura 2000 sites will be particularly relevant for the sake of ecological functionality of habitats and species. Conservation corridors, taking advantage on natural and artificial water run-aways will be encouraged.
In the end, a free GIS-based tool complemented with optimization add-ins will be provided, such to policy-makers and land-owners analyze and rationalize the use of land in their self-interested systems in a path towards sustainability.