FINESSI – Integrated assessment modelling of global change impacts and adaptation | Umweltbundesamt

Background and Goals

FINESSI is a three year project for developing a computer-based evaluation framework for investigating the effects of global change on different natural and managed systems in Finland.

Objectives:

• Development of a web-based modelling framework for estimating the impacts of a range of global change scenarios on several natural and managed systems in Finland along with their attendant uncertainties
• Stimulation of new research into the modelling of global change impacts on biological species distributions using the abundant empirical information held at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)
• Use of hydrological, water quality, forest management and possibly other models to investigate impacts and possible adaptation measures under a changing environment
• Provision of a tool for the dissemination of research results and a pedagogical device for displaying indicators of current and  future environmental change in Finland and estimated impacts and adaptations in selected impact areas.

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