The Future Okavango
The Future Okavango (TFO) is an interdisciplinary research project with the aim of promoting sustainable land use and resource management along the Okavango and in the Okavango Delta . The project includes the areas around the river in Angola , Botswana and Namibia .
Working groups
The project is funded by the German BMBF and is divided into ten sub- projects and a coordination unit:
- SP01 Climate change in the Okavango region
- SP02 Water ( wing , Jena and Helmschrot, Hamburg )
- SP03 Soil & crops
- SP04 Microorganisms (AG Reinhold-Hurek, Bremen )
- SP05 Plant related Ecosystem Services & Functions ( Jürgens and Finckh, Hamburg)
- SP06 Cultural knowledge, valuation, and regulation of Ecosystem Services
- SP07 Regional and transboundary governance
- SP08 Ecological and economic valuation of ecosystem services (AG Nuppenau, Giessen)
- SP09.1 Multi-scale remote sensing ( AG Hill , Trier)
- SP09.2 Landscape Analysis and Modeling
- SP10 stakeholder involvement
- SPC coordination & data management
Scientists from Angola , Botswana , Germany, Namibia , Brazil and Portugal work together in the projects. The first project results were published in the TFO special volume "Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region." Of the journal Biodiversity & Ecology.
Individual evidence
- ↑ BMBF: Sustainable Land Management
- ^ TFO: Structure of The Future Okavango (TFO) project
- ↑ CSC Germany: The Future Okavango Project - Science for Sustainable Land and Resource Management in the Okavango Basin ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Biodiversity & Ecology 5: Special Volume: Environmental Assessments in the Okavango Region
