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The COST Action C11, ‘Green structure and urban planning’, was launched at the beginning of 2000. Fifteen countries were involved in this action and about 40 delegates and experts participated. COST Action C11 belongs to the ‘Urban civil engineering’ domain of the COST programme. The main objective of this action was to address researchers, planners and practitioners about the multitude of roles played by the city’s green structure. In order to progress in its work, COST Action C11 was organised in three working groups: one on the ecological approach of green structure, the second on the ‘human issues’; and a third dealing with the policy aspects. The final seminar was open to ‘key-note speakers’ who could add their own contribution to this report and, to conclude, a kind of synthesis stresses some questions still worth of reflection.

This book presents the results of the studies on satellite data availability, methods and challenges for the assessment of climate change and variability impacts on agriculture, which were obtained by working group 2.1 in the COST Action 734. The main objective of the Action was the evaluation of possible impacts from climate change and variability on agriculture and the assessment of critical thresholds for various European areas. Secondary objectives were: the collection and review of existing agroclimatic indices and simulation models, to assess hazard impacts on various European agricultural areas relating hazards to climatic conditions; building climate scenarios for the next few decades; the definition of harmonised criteria to evaluate the impacts of climate change and variability on agriculture and the definition of warning systems guidelines. This book specifically focuses on the findings of working group 2.1 who addressed remote sensing including the evaluation and assessment of the use of satellite data for agro-climate research, and in particular their integration into high-quality, globally-integrated climate products.

• Pages: 45
• Author(s): F Schlotke, A Moller (Eds.)
• Publisher(s): OPOCE
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• ISBN/ISSN: 978-92-828-9761-4 | 92-828-9761-3