Costs and benefits of landscape‐based water retention measures as nature‐based solutions to mitigating climate impacts in eastern Germany, Czech Republic, and Slovakia
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F25173154%3A_____%2F22%3AN0000020" target="_blank" >RIV/25173154:_____/22:N0000020 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4373" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4373</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4373" target="_blank" >10.1002/ldr.4373</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Costs and benefits of landscape‐based water retention measures as nature‐based solutions to mitigating climate impacts in eastern Germany, Czech Republic, and Slovakia
Original language description
In eastern Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, historic policies led to large, monocropped agricultural landscapes resulting in degradation of traditional landscapes. In the last 20 years, the expansion of urban and industrial areas has added to this degradation. The growing interest in nature-based solutions, including water-retention measures, is a response to reversing landscape degradation, rejuvenating ecosystem services, and mitigating the impacts of large-scale commercial agriculture and climate change. In this study, the costs and benefits of water-retention measures in eastern Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia are assessed. Results indicate that water-retention measures offer increased water availability over all land use classes assessed, help increase crop productivity, and aid in landscape cooling. Croplands are suggested as being the best value for money, offering the greatest volume potentials (mean = 88 million m3), cooling effects (mean = −1.6°C), and productivity gains (mean = €66 million yr−1), while also being the cheapest to implement per unit area. Differing policies in the three states will likely result in non-uniform selection or implementation of measures. Future work should focus on local-level studies offering greater practical messages beyond the regional-level analysis conducted here. This work contributes to the growing body of literature assessing the costs and benefits of water-retention measures, including the potential for landscape cooling, lowering temperature gradients, and ecosystem restoration. As the world urbanises, and as more land is converted to homogeneous cropland, such measures may prove critical in mitigating climate change, landscape drying, flood runoff, and soil and nutrient loss.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT
ISSN
1085-3278
e-ISSN
1099-145X
Volume of the periodical
33
Issue of the periodical within the volume
16
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
3074-3087
UT code for WoS article
000820411500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85133349692