ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING

E2POL is a three year research project (2005-2008) that will create a framework to develop more coordinated, effective and cost-effective energy and environmental policy instruments acting over electricity production and consumption.

The main aim of EROSFIRE2 is to further a solid scientific basis for a model-based tool that, following a forest wildfire, allows evaluating the on- and off-site soil erosion implications of different post-fire intervention scenarios, and, thereby, can contribute significantly to sustainable re-forestation planning of recently burnt areas and to integrated watershed management in general. The current proposal is, in fact, intended as a direct follow-up of the EROSFIRE project (POCI/AGR/60354/2004) and, as such, has two principal objectives, i.e. 1] test, in a comprehensive manner, the decision-support tool that is being developed by the current project for assessing and mapping, in recently burnt areas, soil erosion hazard of individual hill slopes or their sections 2] overcome the major limitation of the EROSFIRE I tool of considering on-site erosion hazard only and ignoring off-site processes (due to hydrological connectivity between slopes) as well as processes affecting road and channel networks.