BUFFER

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BUFFER (Partially protected areas as buffers to increase the linked social-ecological resilience): Coastal zones are complex social-ecological systems playing a crucial role in the economic, social and political development of many countries. However, they are amongst the areas of the world experiencing the highest rates of pressures.

Recently, some studies showed the potential of multiple-use (or partially protected) areas (PPAs) to sustain higher rates of uses and economic revenues than surrounding areas, and buffer against human-induced pressures.

Within BUFFER, our main objective is the identification of drivers of resilience in PPAs that are keys to sustain, adapt or transform derived goods and services necessary for human welfare in a context of multiple pressures.

Our case studies include marine and freshwater partially protected areas in Europe, spanning across different ecological systems and a diverse array of socio-cultural contexts in order to increase the robustness, generalization, applicability, and transferability to decision-makers of our results.

BUFFER total cost is 1 529 390 euros and funded for 1 125 316 euros. BUFFER is funded under the FP7 ERA-Net scheme, BiodivERsA (http://www.biodiversa.org/395) with the support of the respective national funding agencies ANR (France), FCT (Portugal), FORMAS (Sweden) and RCN (Norway), as part of the 2012 BiodivERsA call for research proposals.

The BUFFER consortium is composed by the following institutions: National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, France -- coordination), Centre of Marine Sciences of the University of Algarve (CCMAR, Portugal), Department of Economy, Technology and Society, Luleå University (ETS, Sweden), Institute of Marine Research (IMR, Norway), Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada (ISPA, Portugal), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Aquatic Resources, Institute of Marine Research, Lysekil  (Sweden), Centre for the Law and Economics of the Sea (France). The Project Director is Joachim Claudet (http://joachim.claudet.free.fr/).

Andrea Belgrano, Mattias Sköld and Henrik Svedäng at SLU - Department of Aquatic Resources, Institute of Marine Research, Lysekil  (Sweden), received 1 955 000 SEK in funding for BUFFER (2012-2015) from FORMAS. For further information please contact Andrea Belgrano: andrea.belgrano@slu.se