The MOVE (Facilitating MAES to support regional policy in OVerseas Europe: mobilizing stakeholders and pooling resources) pilot project aims to involve policy makers, researchers and civil society in the development of methodologies for mapping and assessing the state of ecosystems and their services in outermost regions (OR) and overseas countries and territories (OCT).
 

The project will start by assessing the MAES (Mapping and Assessing Ecosystem Services) exercise taking place within the participating overseas regions. It will also take an inventory of the human and material capacities present in each of them.

The geographical, political and knowledge base fragmentation of these entities will be turned into assets through a coordinated and synergistic approach, which pools resources and builds robust participatory tools.

Seven specific regions – each with particular focus of work – will then be chosen as case studies. In each region, a dedicated team of local experts, policy makers and civil society members will be working, pooled from across the OR and OCTs.

As well as producing a tangible contribution for the MAES exercise, this project aims to demonstrate the possibility and the added-value of a bottom-up approach, involving and capacitating local actors. 

Project locations include Macaronesia, Réunion Island, French Guiana, South Atlantic UK Overseas territories, Martinique, Dutch Caribbean, and New Caledonia.

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This project has received funding from the EU represented by European Commission Directorate General Environment under grant agreement Nº 07.027735/2018/776517/SUB/ENV.D2

Project staff at The University of Portsmouth

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Professor Pierre Failler

Professor of Economics

Pierre.Failler@port.ac.uk

Economics and Finance

Faculty of Business and Law

PhD Supervisor

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Mr Ewan Tregarot

Research Fellow

ewan.tregarot@port.ac.uk

School of Accounting, Economics and Finance

Faculty of Business and Law

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Project co-members and institutions

  • Fundo Regional para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal: Gisela Nascimento (PI), Carolina Parelho, Marta Vergilio, Artur Gil, José Azevedo, Miguel Vieira
  • Universidad de La Laguna, Spain: Manuel Arbelo Perez, Laura Martin, Pedro Hernandez
  • Coöperatie Wolfs Company U.A., Netherlands: Elena Palacios, Viviana Luján
  • Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France: Gilbert David, Espérance Cillauren
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany: Benjamin Burkhard, Ina Sieber
  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain: Fernando Santos Martín
  • SAERI Falklands Limited, United Kingdom: Tara Pelembe, Teresa Bowers
  • Universitá degli Studi di Trento, Italy: Davide Geneletti, Blal Adem Esmail, Jarumi Kato Huerta
  • Université de la Réunion, La Réunion: Erwann Lagabrielle
  • Nova Blue Environment, Martinique: Jean-Philippe Maréchal
  • Asociación Biodiversidad Atlántica y Sostenibilidad, Canary Island: Ricardo Haroun Tabraue, Fran Otero-Ferrer, Beatriz Diaz
  • Centre de Coopération Internationale Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, France: Géraldine Derroire, Aurélie Dourdain
  • Institute for Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands: Pieter Van Beukering, Hanna Dijkstra

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