TripleWin

Mitigation, Adaptation and Sustainability

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In most of the developing countries development has a clear interface to climate change. For example, Indonesia very recently decided to cut 20 million hectars of primary forest in order to use the land for biofuel production, arguing with expected economic benefits. India increasingly invests in biofuels, although it is obvious that it will loose its self-supporting status in food production in the next decades. Further, a lot of agricultural production takes place in risk prone areas facing climate change in particular, e.g. in coastal areas or drylands. Most of these areas are additionally threatened by floods and overpopulation. In other words, we see a rapid global change induced by humankind itself, but superimposed by global climate change. The following guiding questions will be addressed by the project:

What are development alternatives for those regions with the highest environmental risks considering retreat instead of sustaining areas with clear environmental thresholds?
How can the livelihood potential of marginal regions be sustained?
What are the characteristics of the urban/rural gradient - essential for understanding the global trend of urbanization?
How can sustainability be accelerated by a combination of development measures and clean technological innovation?
What are the demands of societies with regard to their livelihood and how can these reconciled with climate adaptation and mitigation?

Third party funded NSP project completely/partly contributing to TripleWin:

BaltCICA, Transitions, PROGRESS, MEDIATION, UBA-cost, Synergies

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