• The project
    • Presentation
    • Objetives
    • Ubication
    • Partners
    • Citizen science
  • Actions
  • Galleries
  • Blog
  • Documentation
  • Iberolam
  • English
    • Spanish

LIFE WOOD FOR FUTURE

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND BIODIVERSITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT

Our citizen science program aims to involve citizens in the on-site collection of data on the biodiversity of the middle and lower reaches of the Dílar River. These data will be essential to evaluate the effectiveness of the restoration work contemplated in the LIFE. In addition, through active citizen participation, we intend to increase general awareness about the multiple problems that affect this and other rivers in the Vega de Granada. Your initiative counts!

CITIZEN SCIENCE PROGRAMME

Our citizen science program aims to involve citizens in the on-site collection of data on the biodiversity of the middle and lower reaches of the Dílar River. These data will be essential to evaluate the effectiveness of the restoration work contemplated in the LIFE. In addition, through active citizen participation, we intend to increase general awareness about the multiple problems that affect this and other rivers in the Vega de Granada. Your initiative counts!
Inscription
Data Collect
Visitar Web Marjal
Visit Granada Geopark Website

Feel the sound of a poplar tree

(Author of the Work: José Lopez-Montes)

Play Sound

General video of the project

 

Play video
Visit Iberolam Timber&Technology Website

Home

Presentation

In the last 20 years, the area of poplar groves in the Vega de Granada has been intensively reduced, replaced by intensive agricultural crops, as a result of the loss of economic competitiveness due to the lack of association in the sector, uncompetitive forestry, the low market value of the wood as it is used for low value products and the lack of appreciation of the environmental services provided by the poplar groves.

“Granada, the second most polluted city in Spain, has lost 75% of its poplar groves in the last 20 years, a volume of trees that at the beginning of the 21st century was capable of absorbing CO2 from almost 400,000 vehicles.”

Poplar groves have a high carbon sequestration capacity (up to 31 t/ha/year for Populus spp. in the Vega de Granada) and provide multiple other environmental benefits: they regulate the water cycle (they act as green filters that clean the water that reaches the aquifers, moderate river flooding and protect against erosion), refresh the environment, conserve soil quality, improve air quality and provide habitat for many species of fauna.
In addition, for decades construction in many of Europe’s fertile lowlands has turned its back on a local ecological resource with a high capacity to absorb carbon and clean the air: poplar plantations. Today, technical structural timber derived from innovative manufacturing processes offers a great opportunity to develop a local proximity industry and a low ecological footprint construction with: high long term carbon sequestration; 0 waste; almost zero energy consumption; use of proximity products decreasing pollution and CO2 emissions from transport.

The Vega of Granada and its poplar groves, Lorca’s landscape and cultural heritage, a sign of identity for more than a century with a high sentimental component as an intangible asset, offer the ideal ecological raw material for this: wood. LIFE Wood for Future aims to be an instrument for its recovery against the expansion of intensive herbaceous crops, thus absorbing much more CO2 and fighting against climate change, as well as reducing pollution and acting as a green ring for the metropolitan area of Granada.

Project objectives

Demonstrate and commercialize new structural products for:

  • Provide a negative CO2 footprint to the timber building sector
    Promote sustainable construction with systems based on these bioproducts, reaching a very large market share
  • Save energy in the production processes of these bioproducts, being prefabricated in wood (CO2 sinks) and mixed wood-concrete (low CO2 emissions), replacing usual materials with high energy costs (concrete, metal and brick).
  • Increase the value, and therefore the demand, of local wood to boost the poplar forest sector, promote sustainable management and the creation of local green jobs at the rural level.
  • Use local wood, avoiding importation, wood transport and use of fossil fuels.

To provide the primary forestry sector with tools that guarantee a sustainable local wood supply to the industry:

  • Demonstrating sustainable forestry and high carbon sequestration, which would generate certified quality wood adapted to MCLam and MCLamBS bioproducts and provide numerous environmental services (improved water, air and soil quality, and increased biodiversity)
  • Implementing measures for the profitability of the owners, thus increasing replanting and effectiveness in the fight against climate change: Ecoproducer Association and Carbon Credit System (Carbon Farming)

Project scope: The Vega de Granada

The Vega de Granada (158,925 km2) defined by the Genil river basin between the cities of Granada and Loja. Most of the land is privately owned with a high level of parcelisation (41% plots <1ha, 81% <5ha).
Since the end of the 19th century, poplar has had an important presence in the area, playing multiple roles: hydrological and environmental protection, rural development and cultural value. It is a historical crop that has formed part of the historical and cultural landscape of recent centuries.

Partners

LIFE Wood for Future is a project coordinated by the University of Granada, which counts with the Provincial Council of Granada, the Confederación de Organizaciones de Selvicultores de España, the University of Santiago de Compostela and 3edata Ingeniería Ambiental S.L. as beneficiary partners.

https://www.ugr.es/

Sponsorship

LIFE Wood for Future is committed to achieving synergies with other projects that improve the environment and act against Climate Change and the development of a local bioeconomy in Vega de Granada, its province and region. We seek integration, replicability and transfer between projects, as well as their dissemination among the different agents of society and the economy.

LIFE Wood for Future sponsoring entities or companies

Linked projects

LIFE Wood for Future is committed to achieving synergies with other projects that improve the environment and act against Climate Change and the development of a local bioeconomy in Vega de Granada, its province and region. We seek integration, replicability and transfer between projects, as well as their dissemination among the different agents of society and the economy.

These are the projects linked to LIFE Wood for Future by theme and meeting points.

Associated entities

LIFE Wood for Future is committed to achieving synergies with other projects that improve the environment and act against Climate Change and the development of a local bioeconomy in Vega de Granada, its province and region. We seek integration, replicability and transfer between projects, as well as their dissemination among the different agents of society and the economy.

These are the entities associated with LIFE Wood for Future by theme and meeting points.

Citizen Science Programme

Our citizen science programme aims to involve the public in the in situ collection of data on the biodiversity of the middle and lower reaches of the River Dílar. This data will be essential to evaluate the effectiveness of the restoration works contemplated in the LIFE. In addition, through active citizen participation, we aim to increase general awareness of the multiple problems affecting this and other rivers in the Vega de Granada. Your initiative counts!

To join the citizen science program, please register using the form below. Once registered, you will receive an email giving you access to the data entry portal, available here and on the home page of the website. Here you can also find some simple rules to facilitate your observations of birds in the river and standardize the data collection process (“Protocol for data collection”) and to enter the data collected in the web (“Protocol for data upload”). If you have any doubts or suggestions, you can contact us at carlos.cruz@ugr.es

Inscription

Data Collect

Data upload protocol

Data collection protocol

Our latest news

The Civitas-UGR Chair presents the book “Trends and innovation in sustainable construction”.

The Civitas-UGR Chair presents the book “Trends and innovation in sustainable construction”.

News

The Civitas-UGR Chair presented yesterday afternoon the book “Trends and innovation in sustainable construction”, in an event led by the director of the Chair, Mercedes García de Quesada. The presentation was held at the Royal Hospital, headquarters of the Rectorate of the University of Granada.

Read more +
Poplar growers learn how to turn ‘weeds’ into allies to improve crop biodiversity and productivity

Poplar growers learn how to turn ‘weeds’ into allies to improve crop biodiversity and productivity

News

The Poplar Producers Association of Granada Marjal offers this weekend a course on management of vegetation cover in poplar groves for soil regeneration and improving biodiversity and productivity. This program, open to all interested parties and free of charge, will be taught by permaculture expert Radko Tichalvsky at the headquarters of the Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Training and Research (IFAPA) of the Junta de Andalucía (Camino de Purchil s / n) on Friday November 15 from 16.30 to 18.30 hours. On Saturday, November 16, a practical training will take place in several poplar groves in the Vega de Granada.

Read more +
Successful conclusion of training course on durability, protection and rehabilitation of wood structures

Successful conclusion of training course on durability, protection and rehabilitation of wood structures

News

The visit to the wooden structures of the Alhambra and the Palacio de los Vargas in Granada, led by Ignacio Arto, professor at the University of Granada, has put the finishing touch to the M5 training module on durability, protection, diagnosis and rehabilitation given by the spinoff Iberolam Timber Technology, created for the transfer of the LIFE Wood for Future project.

Read more +
¿Cómo LIFE Wood for Future puede contribuir a la Bioeconomía de Málaga?

¿Cómo LIFE Wood for Future puede contribuir a la Bioeconomía de Málaga?

News

The coordinator of the LIFE Wood for Future project, Antolino Gallego, participated last Thursday, November 7, in a Bioeconomy conference organized by the Málaga Provincial Council at La Noria, a social innovation center located in the capital of Málaga. Professor Gallego presented the talk "Structural bioproducts made in Andalucía" within the Bioproducts and Circularity panel.

Read more +

LIFE Wood for Future has received funding from the LIFE Program of the European Union [LIFE 20 CCM / ES / 001656]

Follow us!
Content
  • The project
  • Actions
  • Galleries
  • Blog
  • Documentation
Legal
  • Legal Notice
  • Use of cookies
  • Privacy Policy
lifewoodforfuture@ugr.es

@ 2024 LIFE Wood for Future All rights reserved

Configure cookies

Any communication or publication related to the project LIFE Wood for Future, made by the beneficiaries jointly or individually in any format and using any means, will indicate that it reflects only the author’s opinion and that the CINEA/ European Commission is not responsible for the use that may be made of the information that contains.

This web uses cookies

We use necessary and optional cookies to give you the best possible experience. Click accept to continue shopping or learn more about our cookie policy here.

Accept & Close
Configure cookies

You have already selected your cookie preferences in previous sessions. Do you want to modify them?

Configure cookies again Continue & Close

Obligatory cookies

They are those that allow the user to navigate through the web page, and use the different options or services that exist in it, such as, for example, identifying the session, accessing restricted access parts, carrying out the purchase process of an order or use security elements while browsing.

View the cookies we use

Personalization, analysis or functional cookies

They are those that allow the user to access the service with some predefined general characteristics based on a series of criteria in the user's terminal, such as the language, the type of browser through which the service is accessed, the regional configuration. from where you access the service, quantify the number of users and thus carry out the statistical measurement and analysis of the use that users make of the service offered. For this, your browsing on our website is analyzed in order to improve the offer of products or services that we offer you.

View the cookies we use

Accept:

Advertising or informative cookies

They are those that allow us to manage our information in the most efficient way possible, adapting its content to the user's preferences, the type of terminal from which the service is accessed, the characteristics of the use made by the user of the services, offer you own or third party advertising, etc. To do this, we analyze your Internet browsing habits to offer you advertising related to the interests of your browsing profiles.

View the cookies we use

Accept:

Analytics cookies

They are those that allow us to collect information on the use made of the website.

View the cookies we use

Accept:

Save changes Accept only necessary Accept all