Costs and benefits of landscape‐based water retention measures as nature‐based solutions to mitigating climate impacts in eastern Germany, Czech Republic, and Slovakia

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Costs and benefits of landscape‐based water retention measures as nature‐based solutions to mitigating climate impacts in eastern Germany, Czech Republic, and Slovakia

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Costs and benefits of landscape‐based water retention measures as nature‐based solutions to mitigating climate impacts in eastern Germany, Czech Republic, and Slovakia

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

ISSN

1085-3278

e-ISSN

1099-145X

Svazek periodika

33

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

16

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

3074-3087

Kód UT WoS článku

000820411500001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85133349692