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SMILE Synergies in Multi-scale Inter-Linkages of Eco-social systems. Institute for Economic Forecasting Lucian-Liviu Albu Raluca Polimeni Radu Lupu. List of Beneficiaries. Concept and project objectives.
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SMILESynergies in Multi-scale Inter-Linkages of Eco-social systems Institute for Economic Forecasting Lucian-Liviu Albu Raluca Polimeni Radu Lupu
Concept and project objectives • The consortium participants have developed tools for analysing the different dimensions of sustainability in a FP6 ongoing project DECOIN (Development and Comparison of Sustainability Indicators, 2006-2009). • The objective of the proposed SMILE project is to apply and further develop these tools to analyse the trade-offs and synergies between different aspects of sustainable development.
Concept and project objectives • The project analyses the trade-offs and synergies in sustainable development objectives by utilising the different indicators developed within the European Sustainable Development Indicator (SDI) Working Group and new types of indicators provided by the tools developed by the consortium partners in previous projects. • The assessment takes place • (i) between economic and environmental aspects, • (ii) between economic and social aspects, • (iii) between social and environmental aspects, and • (iv) between all three objectives.
Work package 1 - Management • Task 1.1. Management and project reports to maintain continuous and timely flow of information • Task 1.2. Organisation and coordination of contacts and contracts between beneficiaries • Task 1.3. Identification of deficiencies and problems, as early as possible, and proposals to overcome them • Task 1.4. Monitoring project components • Task 1.5. Synthesise and interrelate project results • Task 1.6. Produce the project reports to be submitted and provide all deliverables to the Commission. • Task 1.7. Organise meetings (also Internet-based Skype meetings): Kick-off meeting (month 1), Final project meeting (month 36), Consortium meetings (months 1, 6, 12, 18, 24, 34), and Advisory Board meetings (months 12 and 24).
Work package 2 – Analytical Toolkit • Task 2.1. Starting points. The partners, who were not partners in DECOIN, will be familiarised with the functionality and data requirements of the ASA, MSIASEM and SUMMA approaches. • Task 2.2. Demonstration of the use and application examples of the tools in the case study context since the data requirements and modifications needed may vary considerably. • Task 2.3. Development of a procedure for integrated use of the three above procedures, with modelling tools and mathematical links through which they can synergically affect each other.
ASA – Advanced Sustainability Analysis • a coherent mathematical framework for the analysis of the different dimensions of sustainability • is used for analyzing different driving forces behind environmental, social or economic impacts, or other outcomes of human activities at different levels of society
MSIASEM – Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism • the explicit goal of establishing a linkage between representations and data referring to different scale and descriptive domains
SUMMA - Sustainability MulticriteriaMultiscale Assessment • to overcome the inherent shortcomings of all single-criterion approaches, which constitute the vast majority of the Life CycleAssessments performed to date in the scientific literature, and which invariably lead to partial and often misleading results.
Work package 3 – Case studies • Task 3.1 (UAB): Catalonian case study (regional level economy, material energy, land use) • Task 3.2 (IEF): Romanian case study (money, energy, material flows, transition economy) • Task 3.3 (UAB): Lao case study (farming system, land use, farm level analysis) • Task 3.4 (TSE/FFRC and STATFN): Finnish case study (forest industry) • Task 3,5 (UNIPARTHENOPE): Italian case study (agriculture, national, regional, local levels) • Task 3.6 (MLURI): UK Case Study (land use, economic development and social justice, stakeholder participatory analysis) • Task 3.7 (TSE/FFRC): EU27 case study (clustering study) • Task 3.8 (UAB): Writing a final report of all the case studies.
Work package 4 - Synergies and Trade-off analysis and scenario building • Task 4.1 (UNIPARTHEOPE): Comparison and scenarios of energy and environmental performance of processes, production sectors, whole economies at different levels of local integration, with special focus on options for energy conservation and increased renewable energy use • Task 4.2 (UAB): Socio-demographic changes (incl. social cohesion, inequalities, poverty reduction) in the context of economic aspects. • Task 4.3 (MLURI): Economic Growth and Environment (flexibility, levels and type of growth, employment, poverty reduction) and environmental aspects (including land use).
Work package 5 - Interfacing the scientific results with societal/policy processes • To use the results of WP 2, WP 3 and WP 4 and information acquired from the various stakeholders (governmental agencies, industrial organizations, citizens’ participation groups etc.) in order to form the basis for policy recommendations on improvement of sustainability conditions at various geographical scales.
Work package 6 - Dissemination • The objective of WP6 is to disseminate the results of the project in order to enhance awareness and understanding of the issues dealt with in the project.
