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Project Follow-up and actions of fight against the turning into a desert in the European Mediterranean area.

- "Desertnet" allowed the creation of a network of pilot projects intended to initiate a process of homogenisation of the methods based on the comparison of the experiments in several areas. This network was concretized in the development of an operating platform which allowed the creation of a data base concerning the methods, the models and the data available in the areas partners. This structure should also allow, in the future, a simpler management of the activities and collaborations in the projects or other activities.
- It will indeed constitute the point of reference for the most adopted and shared methods. From the future point of view, the partners commit themselves promoting the operating platform grace, in particular, with the increase in the number of users. This widening should make platform a virtual place of division of knowledge while inserting, in addition to its users, the National Committees of Fight against the Turning into a desert.

Project number n/a
Subject(s) METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY
Acronym DESERNET
Geographical coverage Italy, Spain, Tunisia
Budget (in €) 1978990
Programme Interreg III(Espace Medocc)
Web site http://www.desertnet.org
Objectives - "Desertnet" is interested in the study, the follow-up and the durable management of the surfaces at the risk of turning into a desert within the Mediterranean basin. The project aims at carrying out a rationalization of information and experiments technico-scientists acquired and worked out for the surfaces at the risk individualized by the regional and national programs. An operating platform, a network of pilot projects and users, and an interregional observatory for the fight against the turning into a desert, will be created in order to contribute to the realization of a homogeneous system for the exchange of the data and information and for the control of the processes of turning into a desert.
Period [01/01/2004 - 31/12/2004]

Partners

  • UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI SASSARI
    Centro Interdipartimentale d'Ateneo Nucleo Ricerca Desertificazione (NRD)
    Coordinator acts as project coordinator
    Type
    Country Italy
    Contact Mr. Claudio Zucca,
    Position: General coordinator of the project
    Phone/fax: 0039 079 21 11 016, 0039 079 21 79 01
    Email: nrd@uniss.it
  • Institut des Régions Arides
    Type
    Country Tunisia
    Contact Mr. Mohamed Talbi,
    Position:
    Phone/fax: 00216 5 633006,
    Email: mohamed.talbi@ira.rnrt.tn

Funding sources

  • European Commission
    Source Feder
    Programme Interreg III(Espace Medocc)
    Type
    Funding rate 53
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