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Dr Wouter Buytaert grant awards

Dr Wouter Buytaert grant awards: NERC/DFID, 250 000GBP (PI).

"Towards a virtual observatory for ecosystem services and poverty alleviation"

The project aims at integrating new technologies for environmental observation, data transfer, modelling and cyber-infrastructure in a development context. Prototypes of a "virtual observatory" will be developed and implemented in three ecosystem management projects, two in the Amazon basin and one in the Peruvian Andes. The project will develop techniques and methods for the identification of priority issues and beneficiaries, communication of model simulations, and integrating local managers' knowledge and practice in modelling systems.

The project is a collaboration between º£½ÇÉçÇø, the Agrarian University of La Molina, Lima, Peru, and the NGO CONDESAN.