Natural wetlands for wastewater treatment in cold climates
In: Advances in ecological sciences 12
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In: Advances in ecological sciences 12
In: Environmental management: an international journal for decision makers, scientists, and environmental auditors, Band 40, Heft 2, S. 303-313
ISSN: 1432-1009
In: Multifunctional Land Use, S. 1-13
15 páginas, 4 figuras, 3 tablas.-- Este artículo se encuentra bajo Licencia Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial. ; Simple tools and accessible information are needed by environmental planners to select sites for the restoration or creation of wetlands. A flexible suitability model for allocating wetlands is demonstrated in small (20–2,000 ha) agricultural catchments in the semiarid Ebro basin (NE Spain). The model used improved existing data layers (soil and geomorphology), simple geographical transformations (slope and distance to frequently flowing streams) and other created data layers (land use). Detailed scales of data layers (~1:5,000 and <30 m cell-size) are needed to work with small catchments. A deep knowledge of the study area is a requirement for reducing the subjectivity associated with experts' decision. The studied cases proved that 31% of catchment areas were suitable to create wetlands, and another 12% were very suitable. In 11 out of 12 studied catchments 100% of their existing wetlands fell into the area selected by the model as suitable. Most of the suitable area was situated in the lower parts of the catchments examined in the study. There is enough very suitable area in all catchments to fulfil the functional requirements of the wetlands to improve water quality. The model is a simple and useful tool for environmental planning in areas degraded by irrigated agricultural use. ; This work was supported by CICYT (REN2003-03040), Aragon Government–D.G. Investigación, Innovación y Tecnología-Research Group on Ecological Restoration (E61), DGA (CONAID)–CAI (CA1/07), and Diputación de Huesca "Félix de Azara" Grants 2007, Estonian Science Foundation grant No. 6083, and Target Funding Project No. 0182534s03 of the Ministry of Education and Science of Estonia. ; Peer reviewed
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In: WIT transactions on ecology and the environment 93
In: Advances in ecological sciences 11
In: Multifunctional Land Use, S. 327-340
In: AGRFORMET-D-22-00012
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In: Environmental science and pollution research: ESPR, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 2360-2371
ISSN: 1614-7499
In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Band 75, S. 260-268
ISSN: 0264-8377
In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Band 90, S. 104181
ISSN: 0264-8377
In: Buschmann , C , Röder , N , Berglund , K , Berglund , Ö , Lærke , P E , Maddison , M , Mander , Ü , Myllys , M , Osterburg , B & van den Akker , J J H 2020 , ' Perspectives on agriculturally used drained peat soils : Comparison of the socioeconomic and ecological business environments of six European regions ' , Land Use Policy , vol. 90 , 104181 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104181
In Northern, Eastern and Central European countries, peat soils drained for agriculture are a considerable source of greenhouse gas emissions. Since emissions from this source have high mitigation potential, they will likely be a focus of the European Union's future climate goals. We describe and compare the similarities and differences in the socioeconomic and ecological business environment that policy makers, planners and farmers are confronted with when developing tailored proposals for low emission land use alternatives on peat land. The analysis is based on interviews with 33 typical farmers cultivating organic soils and on expert group discussions held in six different Northern, Eastern and Central European regions. Based on the Social-Ecological System Framework we identify and cluster important variables. Our results show that mainly hard economic variables determine preferred land use alternatives: the productivity of resource systems, the economic value of land and market incentives. Other variables, such as the heterogeneity of users and conflicts among them, are more important with respect to the implementation of alternatives. We point out possibilities to transfer solutions between regions and discuss an institutional framework for European Union, national and regional levels for facilitating implementation potential.
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In Northern, Eastern and Central European countries, peat soils drained for agriculture are a considerable source of greenhouse gas emissions. Since emissions from this source have high mitigation potential, they will likely be a focus of the European Union's future climate goals. We describe and compare the similarities and differences in the socioeconomic and ecological business environment that policy makers, planners and farmers are confronted with when developing tailored proposals for low emission land use alternatives on peat land. The analysis is based on interviews with 33 typical farmers cultivating organic soils and on expert group discussions held in six different Northern, Eastern and Central European regions. Based on the Social-Ecological System Framework we identify and cluster important variables. Our results show that mainly hard economic variables determine preferred land use alternatives: the productivity of resource systems, the economic value of land and market incentives. Other variables, such as the heterogeneity of users and conflicts among them, are more important with respect to the implementation of alternatives. We point out possibilities to transfer solutions between regions and discuss an institutional framework for European Union, national and regional levels for facilitating implementation potential.
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In: Multifunctional Land Use, S. 387-401