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Provides a unique and comprehensive assessment of erosion throughout , an important aspect to control and manage if landscapes are to be sustained for the future. Written in two parts, primarily focuses on current issues, area specific erosion rates, on and off-site impacts, government responses, conservation measures, and erosion risk maps. The ...

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PhD scholarship – microbial ecology – ESDAC – …

71 raster data (GeoTIFF) derived from the Database v2. 16. Apr. 2024. EU Observatory (EUSO team) has published 46 scientific papers in 2023. 10. Apr. 2024. For the entire EU, we provide estimates of sediments removal costs based on 3 quantification methods as documented in the publication.

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Land and pollution – Environment Agency

, a component of land, is considered polluted when contaminants adversely affect human health or the environment. With every step we take, we could be standing on top of a very different mix and concentration of contaminants in the ground. The large variation of contaminants, soils, and climatic and land use conditions makes it costly to ...

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An assessment of policies affecting Sustainable …

This paper analyses soils-related policies and in and regions. Our approach breaks down policy packages at , national and regional levels into strategic objectives, operational objectives, policy measures and expected impacts, and assesses the relationships between these elements and stakes.

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) – Environment Agency

The ) contains currently many data and information; most of the offered data are at scale, while, when possible, links to national or global datasets are provided. Datasets are organized in some broad categories. A first category contains the Database (ESDB), datasets that have been derived with the help of the ESDB and general ...

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types | Commission

These 24 colours show the global classification of major types. Each type has its physical, chemical and biological properties, as it is composed of minerals, organic matter, air and water, and hosts many living organisms. classification is important because it reflects not only these properties, but also how soils were formed ...

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Engaging Citizens in : the road to Healthier …

Empowering citizens to preserve health. health faces a critical challenge, threatening ecosystems and livelihoods. Degraded soils endanger agriculture, biodiversity and water quality. In this context, the EU-funded ECHO project aims to empower citizens through knowledge, data collection and decision-making.

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Conservation : Wish or Reality? – Panagos …

loss occurs not because of any lack of knowledge on how to protect soils, but a lack in policy governance. The average rate of loss by sheet and rill erosion is 2·46 Mg ha −1 yr −1. To mitigate the impacts of erosion, the Union's Common Agricultural Policy has introduced conservation measures which reduce ...

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SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS INFLUENCING ARMERS ADOPTION OF …

degradation can have serious negative impacts on agricultural production and the environment. However, it is only since the 1980s that awareness on the negative impacts of agricultural intensification on water and resources has been expressed in agricultural policies and conservation interventions (see Louwagie et al.in this volume).

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Topsoil Organic Carbon (LUCAS) – ESDAC – Commission

Topsoil Organic Carbon (LUCAS) Via this page you can register for downloading the results data that are mentioned in the paper "A map of the topsoil organic carbon content of generated by a generalized additive model" (D. de Brogniez, C. Ballabio, A. Stevens, R. J. A. Jones, L. Montanarella and B. van Wesemael), published Journal of . doi: 10.1111/ejss.12193 ...

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Adopting in soils of …

Ploughing crop residues or green manure into the can be counted among conventional practices, but these are the quickest and probably the most effective measures to favour particle aggregation, thereby retaining a greater proportion of organic carbon within the . In the Central countries, that mostly fall within the ...

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A call for collaboration to create the Atlas of …

Here, we aim to collect a maximum of already published or available data on fauna (micro-meso- and macro-fauna) from the territory, by creating the first comprehensive ‘ Atlas of Fauna’. With this initiative, we envision a vibrant collaborative effort in which ‘data owners’ become ‘co-creators’ of the ...

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Salt Affected Soils – ESDAC – Commission

71 raster data (GeoTIFF) derived from the Database v2. 16. Apr. 2024. EU Observatory (EUSO team) has published 46 scientific papers in 2023. 10. Apr. 2024. For the entire EU, we provide estimates of sediments removal costs based on 3 quantification methods as documented in the publication.

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PhD position in erosion research – ESDAC – …

At University of Basel (Switzerland) within the research group Environmental Geosciences we are looking for candidates with interest in erosion research to investigate erosion processes with radionuclide tracking (caesium and plutonium) in combination with modelling approaches. The position is funded by the Horizon project ...

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— Ever-sprawling urban concrete?

According to these Corine (Coordination of information on the environment) monitoring results, ’s land cover has remained relatively stable since 2000, with about 25 % covered by arable land and permanent crops, 17 % by pastures and 34 % by forests. However, on closer inspection of recent land cover changes, two noteworthy trends emerge.

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health – Commission – Environment

The new Monitoring Law provides a legal framework to help achieve healthy soils by 2050. It will do so by. putting in place a solid and coherent monitoring framework for all soils across the EU so Member States can take measures to regenerate degraded soils. making sustainable management the norm in the EU.

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90 years IUSS and global – Taylor & Francis Online

the discipline emerged out of geology and chemistry. had a regional as well as a geological or chemical focus until about the 1900s (Hartemink 2015a). In Western , largely originated in the laboratory, whereas in the USA and the Russian Empire, started in the field. The amalgamation of ...

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Awards & Scholarships | Society of America

Awards & Scholarships. ASA, CSSA, and SSSA honor and celebrate the achievements of those the agronomic sciences to recognize excellence and leadership research, education, industry achievement, and mentorship; and bestow the prestigious designation of Fellow. addition, we offer graduate and undergraduate scholarships that recognizes ...

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QS World University Rankings for Environmental Sciences 2024

Discover where to study environmental sciences with the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024. Harvard University is once again the best university the world for studying environmental sciences, partly due to its perfect score for employer reputation. Six universities outscore Harvard for ... Register for free site membership to ...

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geography and diversity of the biogeographical …

Abstract. For decades, geography has been mainly a qualitative and descriptive discipline. There are now technologies and mathematical tools available that allow formalizing geography in more quantitative terms. In this paper, the distribution and diversity of the soils of are analyzed using GIS tools and pedodiversity algorithms.

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International Master of in Soils and Global Change …

is organised by Ghent University, the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna and the University of Göttingen and leads to a joint MSc-diploma issued by these 3 universities. Student mobility within is an integral part of the 2-year programme.

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Editorial – Oliver – 2015 – Journal of …

The Associate Editors (AEs) are also unknown to the authors; they are specialists in particular branches of and select the reviewers. The 40 or so AEs liaise with the authors through the Journal's operating system (ScholarOne) and provide a vital link between authors, the Deputy Editors and the Editor-in-Chief.

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20th World Congress of – Database

The Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has been present in the 20th World Congress of (20WCSS). Thanks to all participants who have visited us at Booth No #2 where you could find the following posters plus a range of books, atlases, DVDs and other publications. Presentations. Find below the presentations delivered by ...

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8 Postdoc jobs in – Academic Positions

AGBS - Postdoctoral Fellow in Agronomy & Quality and Health. Host program: AgroBioSciences Department (AgBS), College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (CAES), AgroBioSciences Program-Mohammed VI Polytechnic UniversityDuration: 2 years (CDD)About UM6PMohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P,https://... Published 4 days ago. Postdoc.

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Impacts and Uncertainties of +2°C of Climate Change and …

The growth stimulus due to elevated CO 2 may offset potentially negative yield impacts of temperature increase by +2°C in most of . degradation causes a calorie vulnerability ranging from 0 to 50 Gcal ha-1 due to insufficient compensation for nutrient depletion and this might undermine climate benefits in many regions, if not ...

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