AHIA

AHIA (Alternet High Impact Actions) is a research-funding initiative aimed at encouraging Alternet partners to collaborate on high impact research publications

The AHIA initiative was introduced to support high impact projects that foster collaboration between Alternet partner institutes on key biodiversity and ecosystem issues facing society. Past AHIA projects have yielded publications in major journals, produced tangible policy and societal impact, and established long-term international research partnerships.

Lead Partner

• Bede West, CEH-UK

Participating Alternet Partners

• UK-CEH, SLU, INBO, ILEE, UFZ

Outputs

• Blog post

Lead partner

• INRAE – Thibault Datry

Participating Alternet partners

• Irstea, SYKE, MTA-OK, and IGB

Status: Complete

Outputs

• Article: Frontiers in Ecology
• Policy Brief
• Video

Lead partner

• Per Angelstam, SLU

Participating Alternet partners

• SLU, ILE-SAS, SYKE

Status: complete

Outputs

• Publication: Maintaining natural and traditional cultural green infrastructures across Europe: learning from historic and current landscape transformations
• Publication: Meeting places and social capital supporting rural landscape stewardship: A Pan-European horizon scanning
• Jargon-Free Science-Policy Statement

Author’s Statement: “In spite of a wide range of policy commitments to sustain biodiversity and multiple ecosystem services, successive assessments demonstrate widespread failures. With its severe anthropogenic transformation, Europe is a prime example. As a cure, research and policy advocate designing ecological networks of green (land) and blue (water) spaces. Maintenance of such “green infrastructures” requires strategic spatial planning of natural and semi-natural areas that maintain sustainable landscape patterns and processes, and regionally adapted landscape stewardship approaches. We review innovative studies using the wide Pan-European variation in environmental histories in the research design. We illustrate pattern by different kinds of “forest loss” and dead wood as biodiversity state indicators; process by predator-prey interactions affecting forest and wetland biodiversity; and landscape stewardship by fora strengthening social capital, and land ownership cultures. We conclude that research design can affect conclusions, and that integrative place-based research providing socially robust knowledge should complement widespread disciplinary research.”

Lead partner

• Irstea

Participating Alternet partners

• Irstea, NINA, SYKE, ILE-SAS, MTA-OK, UNIBUC, WENR, CEH, JHI, INBO

Status: complete

Outputs

• Paper: Lenormand M, Luque S, Langemeyer J, Tenerelli P, Zulian G, Aalders I, Chivulescu S, Clemente P, Dick J, van Dijk J, van Eupen M, Giuca R, Kopperoinen L, Lellei-Kovacs E, Leone M, Lieskovsky J, Schirpke U, Smith A, Tappeiner U & Woods H (2018) Multiscale socio-ecological networks in the age of information. arXiv preprintarXiv:1805.00734.
• Research Article published in PLOS ONE:
• Lenorman M, Luque S, Langemeyer J, Tenerelli P, Zulian G, Aalders I, et al. (2018) Multiscale scoio-ecological networks in the age of information. PLoS ONE 13(11): e0206672. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206672
• Project output pre-print
• Interactive web application
• Data repository
• Technical blog post
• Flyer

Lead partner

• Hutton

Participating Alternet partners

• Hutton, SYKE, INBO, IAES, NINA, ILE-SAS, MTA-OK, UNIBUC, CREAF, SLU

Status: complete

Outputs

• Journal Article
• Kerry Waylen, Kirsty Blackstock, Freddy van Hulst, Carmen Damian, Ferenc Horváth, Richard Johnson, Robert Kanka, Mart Külvik, Christopher Macleod, Kristian Meissner, Mihaela Oprina-Pavelescu, Joan Pino, Eeva Primmer, Geta Rîșnoveanu, Barbora Šatalová, Jari Silander, Jana Špulerová, Monika Suškevičs, Jan Van Uytvanck, Policy-driven monitoring and evaluation: Does it support adaptive management of socio-ecological systems?. Science of The Total Environment, 2019. ISSN 0048-9697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.462.
• Project Output: Briefing
• Powerpoint
• Further Information

Lead partner

• SYKE

Participating Alternet partners

• SYKE, NINA, Hutton, INBO

Status: complete

Outputs

• Paper: ”Integrative Concepts and Practices of Health in Trans-disciplinary Social Ecology”. Assmuth, T., Chen, X., Degeling, C. et al. Socio Ecol Pract Res (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42532-019-00038-y
• Second scientific paper: Antoine-Moussiaux & al. Sust Sci. 2019; Keune & Assmuth 2019; Chen & al., Sci Total Env 2019
• Report of Activities

Lead partner

• ESSRG

Participating Alternet partners

• ESSRG, Irstea, SYKE, CEH, UFZ, INBO, IAES, ILE-SAS, CREAF, NINA

Status: complete

Outputs

• Paper: Bela, G., et al. (2016), Learning and the transformative potential of citizen science. Conservation Biology, 30: 990–999. doi:10.1111/cobi.12762
• Video: The role of citizen science in biodiversity research