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MAGIC (Moving Towards Adaptive Governance in Complexity: Informing Nexus Security)

MAGIC deploys a set of novel, cutting-edge and system-oriented approaches that originates from system ecology, bio-economics and Science and Technology Studies.

  • Projects and activities | Last updated: 23 Jun 2021
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logo project MAGIC
(@(C) MAGIC Project)

"Moving Towards Adaptive Governance in Complexity: Informing Nexus Security" (MAGIC) was a four-year project funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme that ended in 2020. The goal of MAGIC has been to transform the Water-Energy-Food nexus from a shorthand to signify the complexity of the relationship between water, soils energy and climate into a set of relationships over identified factors which can be systematically used to explore this complexity. This implies integrating social challenges and stakeholders views related to the water-energy-food- nexus into the analysis. Dialogue spaces were opened, dissemination strategies enacted and mixed qualitative-quantitative tools developed in the context of a community building exercise transcending mechanistic scientist-policy maker separation but taking full advantage of the rich spectrum of actors and institutions active in the nexus. 

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Project URL
Call for proposal
H2020-WATER-2015-two-stage programme
Coordinators
Mario Giampietro (Project Coordinator, UAB)
Angela Guimarães Pereira (JRC Coordinator)
Participants
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
DG Joint Research Centre
The James Hutton Institute
Wageningen University
University of Twente
Universitetet i Bergen
Universita Degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Climate Analytics Gmbh
Instituto Tecnologico de Canarias, S.A.
Funding scheme
Horizon 2020
Geographic coverageEurope
Project date
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28 Apr 2021 | 23 Jun 2021

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