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Mission & Aims
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The mission of the PEER Network for Biodiversity and Nature Conservation (CONNECT) is:
- to address environmental problems on an international basis,
- to develop and enhance international collaborative research programmes in priority areas of ecology and nature conservation,
- to provide scientific underpinning for action on European and global problems in the field of environment and nature conservation.
At the scientific level of organisation, a number of specific aims which are essential to accomplishing the mission have been identified. These specific aims are:
- to improve understanding of the factors determining the structure, composition and processes of ecosystems and species in Europe,
- to enhance collaboration between Conservation Institutes through joint research programmes focused on priority themes,
- to develop a sounder scientific basis for predicting and modelling environmental trends arising from natural and man-made changes on a European scale,
- to integrate information on nature for management of biodiversity, sustainable use of natural resources, spatial planning purposes and cross sectoral policy-making,
- to disseminate the results of the research to those responsible for the protection, management and use of natural resources at the European scale, making full use of contemporary information technology.
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For more information on this research network please contact:
Dr Allan Watt
CEH - Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Hill of Brathens
Banchory
Aberdeenshire
AB31 4BY
United Kingdom
Tel.: +44-1330-826300
Fax: +44-1330-823303
E-mail:
Dr Jurgen Tack
CONNECT Secretary
Institute of Nature Conservation
Kliniekstraat 25
B-1070 Brussels
Belgium
Tel.: +32-2-5581861
Fax: +32-2-5581805
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