Professor at the University of Montpellier, member of the UMR MARBEC and senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, David MOUILLOT has just been awarded an ERC Advanced grant that will enable him to conduct transdisciplinary research to assess the potential of coastal marine resources for reducing poverty and emigration in rural areas of East Africa affected by land aridification.
The blue economy is an economic concept referring to economic activities linked to the oceans, seas and their coasts.
David MOUILLOT's study will combine satellite imagery, artificial intelligence algorithms and statistical spatial matching methods, as well as multidisciplinary field surveys. The project will focus on three types of blue economy (marine protected areas, ecotourism and aquaculture) and three countries (Madagascar, Tanzania and Mozambique) where agricultural resources are threatened by climate change and where sustainable development issues are among the most critical worldwide.
The ERC Advanced 2023 will support 255 researchers from 19 EU Member States and associated countries for a total of €652 million.
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University of Montpellier press release
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