Exploratory Action STEEP Sustainability transition , environment , economy and local policy

The rich and diverse activity in modeling in Rhône-Alpes region, the need of more technical expertise of the various actors and the necessity for decision makers to be able to project into an uncertain future via innovative tools developed by the research are three elements that push the creation the MUTERA project. MUTERA aims then to gather the main actors in urban planning and transport of Rhône-Alpes region to work on the issues regarding land-use and transport models. This group includes technicians, politicians and researchers. MUTERA kick-off meeting is foresaw in the beginning of 2012. Project acronym: SOCLE3 Project title: Sustainability, Local Collective Organisation, Energy, Economy and Environment Coordinator: Pierre-Yves Longaretti (STEEP) Other partners: LECA (UJF/CNRS), EDDEN (UPMF/CNRS), PACTE (UJF/CNRS), ERIC (Lyon 2/CNRS) The SOCLE3 interdisciplinary group and project has two major aims: • Analyzing and modelling the environmental, economic and social interactions at the urban to regional (sub-national) level, and their coupled trajectories under given global and local macroeconomic trends, and climate change constraints. • Providing decision-makers with policy analysis and evaluation tools, and other researchers with methodological tools, based in particular (but not exclusively) on simulations under relevant global/local scenarios, to identify and characterize possible sustainability transition pathways at the local and regional scales. • http://socle3.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr/ 7.2. National Initiatives Program: "Modelling and Scenarios of Biodiversity" flagship program, Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversité Project acronym: ESNET (submitted) Project title: Ecosystem services networks futures for the Grenoble region Duration: 2012 2014 Coordinator: Sandra Lavorel (LECA) Other partners: LECA (UJF/CNRS), STEEP(INRIA/LJK) , EDDEN (UPMF/CNRS), CEMAGREF Grenoble, PACTE (UJF/CNRS), ERIC (Lyon 2/CNRS) Abstract: Ecosystem services are underpinned by fundamental ecological properties and processes interacting with society, both through human dependence on these services, and the use and management of ecosystems. Our hypothesis is that ecosystem services can thus be modelled as networks of interacting ecological and societal processes, at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Our interdisciplinary research team proposes to explore this network hypothesis by assessing alternative futures of ecosystem services under combined scenarios of land-use and climate change for the Grenoble urban area in the French Alps. We will capitalize on existing statistical and mechanistic methods to build and integrate models of the relevant ecosystem services and land-use change. Our assessment will benefit from our detailed understanding of how biodiversity and different ecosystem services are interconnected. Trade-offs and synergies will be quantified by a specifically designed spatial multi-criteria analysis. Besides the urban area, we will focus on two case study sub-systems: the intensively farmed valley upstream of the city and a mixed landscape of forests and grasslands in a mountain range south of the city. As beneficiaries of ecosystem services, local and regional stakeholders will be involved in formulating the project working hypotheses and scenarios. These scenarios will build on current urban planning exercises by public authorities and research teams, and downscaling of land-use and climate change projections. We will engage stakeholders in the comparison of scenarios and the assessment of trade-offs in order to foster a dialog on development pathways and mitigation options. Exploratory Action STEEP 9 In other respects, we are also strongly connected to the AETIC project. Initially we were not members of this project. But we follow it very closely and we already build on it via our collaboration with EDDEN laboratory and IDDRI. In particular our project of modeling and implementing transport-land use-energy integrated model for the city of Grenoble uses the data and analysis which are generating in the context of AETIC project. Program: ANR project (Ville durable) Project acronym: AETIC Project title: Approche Economique Territoriale Intégrée pour le Climat Duration: 2010 2013 Coordinator: Patrick Criqui (EDDEN) Partners: UMR EDDEN, company ENERDATA Conseil, VEOLIA Environnement, CSTB (Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment), IDDRI (Sciences Politiques Paris), UMR PACTE. Abstract: AETIC project aims to achieve three objectives: 1) to provide economic tools which allow to calculate and integrate costs and quantities useful for the territorial climate policy (PCL–"Plan Climat Local" ). 2) to provide an analysis of the PCL of Grenoble metropolitan area. 3) to define a consistent and innovative methodology for the definition of the PCL. A project related to previous activities in computer vision of project members: Program: ANR CONTINT Project acronym: ROM Project title: Realtime Onset Matchmoving Duration: 2008 – 2011 Coordinator: Duran Duboi SA Other partners: VORTEX (IRI Toulouse, France) Abstract: This industrial R&D project concerns the generation of special effects for movie or other film productions. In particular, the goal is to provide tools for successful onset matchmoving, that is the estimation of camera trajectories during acquisition, with immediate pre-visualization of special effects superimposed on acquired sequences. Besides this real-time aspect of matchmoving, the project also addresses the problem of preparing a shooting, by analyzing if matchmoving with natural features is possible and if not, by instrumenting the scene with artificial markers in appropriate positions. 7.3. European Initiatives A project related to previous activities in computer vision of project members: Program: ESA ITI (European Space Agency Triangular Initiatives) Project acronym: ITI 3D Project title: Multi-View 3D Reconstruction of Asteroids Duration: 2010 – 2011 Coordinator: EADS Astrium Abstract: The goal of the project is to implement and validate algorithms for image-based 3D modeling of asteroids. The algorithms combine multi-view stereo and shape-from-shading. 10 Activity Report INRIA 2011 7.4. International Initiatives 7.4.1. INRIA International Partners We collaborate closely with Tomàs De La Barra (Modelistica company, Professor at Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (Venezuela)). Tomàs De La Barra is the foundator of the Land-Use and Transport Integrated Model Tranus. In the framework of this collaboration, Tomàs visited us for one week to advance the calibration of Tranus on Grenoble, and an ECOS NORD project has been submitted. 7.4.2. Visits of International Scientists