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Benefits of Soil Carbon- A SCOPE rapid assessment process project
Environmental Development 5 (2013) 182
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Benefits of Soil Carbon—A SCOPE rapid assessment process project Conserving and improving soil carbon through land management offer enormous potential to simultaneously address the major global challenges of rapid climate change, degradation of soil and water quality, and the urgent and growing demand for food. Many of the benefits of soil carbon arising from multiple ecosystem services are not recognised or are external to existing markets. Realising these benefits requires adapting existing policy and developing and implementing new initiatives to bring these benefits into land use management decisions. SCOPE’s rapid assessment process (RAP) project on the Benefits of Soil Carbon arose through the collective initiative and broad interdisciplinary consensus of experts involved in the consultation for the emerging issues section in the UNEP Year Book 2012 /http://www.unep.org/yearbook/2012/S. An international workshop in March 2013 at the Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy will bring together experts from a broad range of disciplines to prepare background science evidence and synthesise this complex body of evidence into effective support for international environmental policy and action. In the RAP process, commissioned chapters summarising the state of knowledge within their disciplinary fields provide the background for the week-long international workshop. Forty experts then discuss and draft cross-cutting chapters to synthesise the state of the knowledge, and point out knowledge gaps and research needs. Together with an executive summary, these chapters form a SCOPE monograph that undergoes peer-review and final editing. Workshop experts prepare short policy briefs to flag the main conclusions and recommendations, and contribute as co-authors to an authoritative review for a high-impact international journal. The Benefits of Soil Carbon project is co-chaired by Prof. Steven Banwart, The University of Sheffield, UK, and Prof. Elke Noellemeyer, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina. Susan Greenwood
2211-4645/$ - see front matter http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2012.12.004
Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect
Environmental Development journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/envdev
Benefits of Soil Carbon—A SCOPE rapid assessment process project Conserving and improving soil carbon through land management offer enormous potential to simultaneously address the major global challenges of rapid climate change, degradation of soil and water quality, and the urgent and growing demand for food. Many of the benefits of soil carbon arising from multiple ecosystem services are not recognised or are external to existing markets. Realising these benefits requires adapting existing policy and developing and implementing new initiatives to bring these benefits into land use management decisions. SCOPE’s rapid assessment process (RAP) project on the Benefits of Soil Carbon arose through the collective initiative and broad interdisciplinary consensus of experts involved in the consultation for the emerging issues section in the UNEP Year Book 2012 /http://www.unep.org/yearbook/2012/S. An international workshop in March 2013 at the Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy will bring together experts from a broad range of disciplines to prepare background science evidence and synthesise this complex body of evidence into effective support for international environmental policy and action. In the RAP process, commissioned chapters summarising the state of knowledge within their disciplinary fields provide the background for the week-long international workshop. Forty experts then discuss and draft cross-cutting chapters to synthesise the state of the knowledge, and point out knowledge gaps and research needs. Together with an executive summary, these chapters form a SCOPE monograph that undergoes peer-review and final editing. Workshop experts prepare short policy briefs to flag the main conclusions and recommendations, and contribute as co-authors to an authoritative review for a high-impact international journal. The Benefits of Soil Carbon project is co-chaired by Prof. Steven Banwart, The University of Sheffield, UK, and Prof. Elke Noellemeyer, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina. Susan Greenwood
2211-4645/$ - see front matter http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2012.12.004