Exploring climate-smart land management for atlantic europe
Schulte, Rogier P. O. O’Sullivan, Lilian Coyle, Cait Farrelly, Niall Gutzler, Carsten Lanigan, Gary Torres-Sallan, Gemma Creamer, Rachel E.
Schulte, Rogier P. O.
O’Sullivan, Lilian
Coyle, Cait
Farrelly, Niall
Gutzler, Carsten
Lanigan, Gary
Torres-Sallan, Gemma
Creamer, Rachel E.
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2016-01-01
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Schulte, Rogier P. O. O’Sullivan, Lilian; Coyle, Cait; Farrelly, Niall; Gutzler, Carsten; Lanigan, Gary; Torres-Sallan, Gemma; Creamer, Rachel E. (2016). Exploring climate-smart land management for atlantic europe. ael 1 (1),
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Soils can be a sink or source of carbon, and managing soil carbon has significant potential to partially offset agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. While European Union (EU) member states have not been permitted to account for this offsetting potential in their efforts to meet the EU 2020 reduction targets, this policy is now changing for the period 2020 to 2030, creating a demand for land management plans aimed at maximizing the offsetting potential of land. In this letter, we derive a framework for climate-smart land management in the Atlantic climate zone of the EU by combining the results from five component research studies on various aspects of the carbon cycle. We show that the options for proactive management of soil organic carbon differ according to soil type and that a spatially tailored approach to land management will be more effective than blanket policies.
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American Society of Agronomy
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