SMILE Synergies in Multi-scale Inter-Linkages of Eco-social systems

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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

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List of Beneficiaries
Beneficiary Number Beneficiary name Beneficiary short name Country
1(Coordinator) Turku School of Economics, Finland Futures Research Centre TSE/FFRC Finland
2 Parthenope University of Naples UNIPARHENOPE Italy
3 Autonomous University of Barcelona UAB Spain
4 Free University of Amsterdam, Department of Spatial Economics VU Netherlands
5 The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute MLURI UK
6 Institute for Economic Forecasting IEF Romania
7 Statistics Finland STATFIN Finland
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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.

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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.

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Work package list
Work package No. Work package title
WP 1 Management
WP 2 Analytical toolkit
WP 3 Case studies - Catalonia case study (regional level economy, material energy, land use - Romania case study (money, energy, material flows, transition economy) - Laos case study (farming system, land use, farm level analysis) - Finnish case study (forest industry) - Italian case study (agriculture at national, regional, local levels) - EU27 case study (clustering study) - Cairngorms (UK) case study (regional level, multi-sector, trade-offs between statutory objectives)
WP 4 Synergies, Trade-off analysis and scenario building
WP 5 Interfacing the scientific results with societal/policy processes (stakeholder participation, sustainable consumption and production patterns) and assess the utility of sustainability assessment tools
WP 6 Dissemination
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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).

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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.

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General description
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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

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ASA
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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

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MSIASEM for Millenium Ecosystem Assessment
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SUMMA - Sustainability Multicriteria Multiscale
Assessment

• to overcome the inherent shortcomings of all
  single-criterion approaches, which constitute the
  vast majority of the Life Cycle Assessments
  performed to date in the scientific literature,
  and which invariably lead to partial and often
  misleading results.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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Efforts for the full duration of the project
Workpackage WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 WP6 TOTAL per Beneficiary
1. TSE/FFRC 6 3 4 8,5 4 7 32,5
2. UNIPARTHE-NOPE 1 3 4 13 5 3 29
3. UAB 1 3 4 13 5 3 29
4. VU 1 1 8 9 3 22
5. MLURI 1 1 3 11 4 3 23
6. IEF 1 1 4 8 3 3 20
7. STATFIN 3,5 1 4,5
TOTAL 11 12 22,5 61,5 30 23 160
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List of Milestones
Milestone No. Milestone name WP(s) involved Lead bene-ficiary Delivery date from Annex 1 Comments
M1 Kick-off Meeting WP1 1 1 Minutes delivered
M2 Launch of Web site WP6 1 3 Address delivered
M3 1.Toolkit workshop WP2 1 6 Minutes delivered
M4 2.Toolkit workshop WP2 1 12 Minutes delivered
M5 Toolkit WP2 1 15 Report delivered
M6 Reports of the Case Studies mid-term review WP3 3 18 Report delivered
M7 Reports of synergies and trade-offs that exist between the different objectives of sustain-able development WP4 2 30 Report delivered
M8 Research work finalized final review WP5 4 36 Final review workshop
M9 Final project meeting WP1 1 38 Invitations and minutes delivered
M10 International conference WP6 1 42 Invitations and minutes delivered