LAMASUS

LAnd use and MAnagement modelling for SUStainable governance

The EU is committed to achieving climate neutrality by 2050. The land-use sector is important in terms of achieving these goals. But using land to capture carbon is not an easy option. EU policy-makers have a tough job making choices for European agriculture and land use as well as climate change. In this context, the EU-funded LAMASUS project will build on decades of experience in direct policy support to develop a novel governance model based on multiple stakeholder dialogues, from European Commission level to local administrations. Bringing together 17 research institutions from 9 countries, the project will ensure local actors contribute to the design of effective and efficient EU policies.

As part of the European Green Deal, the EU must achieve climate neutrality by 2050. The land-use sector has a key role to play, which is recognised in the “Fit for 55 package”, where a climate neutrality target for agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) is set for 2035. To enable fundamental transformations in the land-use sector necessary to achieve the Green Deal, LAMASUS proposes a step change in land-use sector governance, from policy formulation to implementation to monitoring. LAMASUS builds on 1) decades of experience in direct policy support, 2) unique modelling tools, such as GLOBIOM, the only model that integrates agricultural and land-use sectors, as well as CAPRI, MAGNET and CLUE, which underlie JRC’s land-use policy assessments, and 3) novel approaches mobilising machine learning and citizen science. The project is driven by four key elements: EVIDENCE – dynamic monitoring of land use, management and related policies for evaluation and model calibration; UNDERSTANDING – state-of-the-art econometric and biophysical models to assess the role of past policies on changes in land use and management as well as their economic and environmental impacts; TOOLS – a highly integrated policy modelling framework with full sectoral coverage from agriculture and forestry to the whole economy, accounting for carbon, biodiversity and all relevant sustainability dimensions at multiple scales (land-use actors, country, EU level, global); GUIDANCE – a multi-level stakeholder dialogue for co-design of agriculture, forestry and climate policies by the EC, national and local governments and citizens, made accessible to stakeholders across multiple spatial scales through the novel web-based LAMASUS Portal. In this way, LAMASUS will create a new level of societal engagement in which local actors contribute to the design of effective and efficient EU policies for climate neutrality and will serve as an example for other policy processes within the European Green Deal.

LAMASUS

Funding

Horizon Europe

Area

Food# Bioeconomy# Natural Resources# Agriculture and Environment

Duration

1 Sep 2022 - 31 Aug 2026

Budget

€ 5 216 588,58

Our role

Grant Scan & Strategy, Proposal Development, Project Management, Dissemination & Communication, Exploitation & Sustainability

Partners

17

Countries

9

Coordinator

INTERNATIONALES INSTITUT FUER ANGEWANDTE SYSTEMANALYSE, Austria

Participants

  • RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT BONN, Germany
  • EUROPEAN CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL, REGIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY RESEARCH, EUROCARE, Germany
  • STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH, Netherlands
  • INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L’AGRICULTURE, L’ALIMENTATION ET L’ENVIRONNEMENT, France
    UNIVERSITE PARIS-SACLAY, France
  • STIFTELSEN RURALIS INSTITUTT FOR RURAL- OG REGIONALFORSKNING, Norway
  • JOHANN HEINRICH VON THUENEN-INSTITUT, BUNDESFORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUER LAENDLICHE RAEUME, WALD UND FISCHEREI, Germany
  • UNIVERSITAET FUER BODENKULTUR WIEN, Austria
  • OSTERREICHISCHES INSTITUT FUR WIRTSCHAFTSFORSCHUNG VEREIN, Austria
  • MINISTERIE VAN INFRASTRUCTUUR EN WATERSTAAT, Netherlands
  • STICHTING VU, Netherlands
  • UNIVERSITAT DE VALENCIA, Spain
  • UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI, Poland
  • ARTTIC INNOVATION GMBH, Germany
  • JRC -JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE- EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Belgium
  • ZURCHER HOCHSCHULE FUR ANGEWANDTE WISSENSCHAFTEN, Switzerland