Biodiversity conservation and valuation of coral reef goods and services under climate change – BIOCORE
BIOCORE is a Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship which aims at examining biological diversity with particular reference to coral reef ecosystems to the environment, economy and human well-being.
The project BIOCORE was financed by the European Commission, within the Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship scheme of the FP7 People Programme. Dr. Sabah Abdulla, from Kenya, was the Marie Curie Fellow. She developed the project under the supervision of Dr. Francesco Bosello.
BIOCORE is a Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship which aimeds at examining biological diversity with particular reference to coral reef ecosystems to the environment, economy and human well-being.
Coral reef ecosystems are reported to be the richest bio-diverse group in the world and from the socio-economic view; they are mainly located in developing countries. The cost of policy inaction will result to 60% corals reef loss by 2030 resulting to significant, and potentially irreversible welfare losses to the future generations.
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