MONTCLIMA
Climate and natural risks in the SUDOE mountains
Axis 4 Combating climate change
Objective 5b1 Improving the coordination and effectiveness of prevention, disasters management and rehabilitation tools of damaged areasImage gallery
- Environmental services (management and risk protection and biodiversity) and energy (production technologies, distribution and storage from renewable sources), air quality and emissions control
- Management of the cultural heritage
- Forest fires
- Integrated management of the ressources and natural sites
- 2. Centro de Investigación Ecológica y Aplicaciones Forestales Centre de Recerca Ecologica I
- 3. NEIKER-Instituto Vasco de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario, SA
- 4. Fundación Centro de Servicios y Promoción Forestal y de su Industria de Castilla y León
- 5. Instituto Politécnico de Bragança
- 6. Office National des Forets
- 7. GEIE FORESPIR
- 8. Centre d'Etudes et d'Expertise sur les Risques, l'Environnement, la Mobilité et l'Aménagement
- 9. Comunidade Intermunicipal da Região de Leiria
Project summary
Mountains are the most affected territories by natural risks and it is foreseen that those risks will increase due to climate change – risks which do not know administrative boarders and require a transnational coordination.
To respond to this challenge, MONTCLIMA provides a transnational strategic framework to prevent and manage natural risks in the Southwestern Mountains. It develops 4 pilot projects:
- Innovation and culture of wine to prevent soils erosion;
- Adaptative forests’ management to prevent forest fires and improve the resilience to dryness;
- Improvement of the protector role of forests and;
- Follow-up of the river basins’ dynamics to reduce the risks of torrent flooding.
Among others, some of the main tools will be a mapping with information on vulnerable areas, the history of catastrophes in mountain areas and a collection of good practices
Participating regions
- Aquitaine
- Aragón
- Castilla y León
- Cataluña
- Centro
- Midi-Pyrénées
- Norte
- País Vasco