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Modelling Agricultural Soil Carbon sinks in the European part of the Former Soviet Union

Description: Das Projekt "Modelling Agricultural Soil Carbon sinks in the European part of the Former Soviet Union" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH - UFZ, Sektion Bodenforschung durchgeführt. The overall objective of the project is to assess the potential for changes in agricultural management to increase the carbon stocks of agricultural soils in the European part of the former Soviet Union, for use under Article 3.4 of the Kyoto Protocol. The specific objectives are as follows: 1) Assess the carbon stocks of agricultural soils in the European part of the former Soviet Union in 1990 (the Kyoto baseline year); 2) Quantify the changes in carbon stocks of agricultural soils in the European part of the former Soviet Union from 1990 to present, as a result of management and land-use changes following Perestroika; 3) Develop economically viable and environmentally sustainable scenarios of land-use and land-management change that could be implemented in the European part of the former Soviet Union to enhance soil carbon storage in agricultural land; 4) Quantify how carbon stocks could be increased in agricultural soils in the European part of the former Soviet Union in the future by applying these scenarios; 5) Assess the likely impacts of future climate change on the carbon stocks of agricultural soils in the European part of the former Soviet Union and on the viability of the land-use / land-management change scenarios. We will achieve these objectives through the integration of dynamic simulation models, databases of long-term field experiments, and GIS databases of soils, meteorological and climatic conditions, and agricultural, environmental and land-management data. Stakeholder involvement and inclusion of agricultural socio-economics experts from NIS countries will ensure that the agricultural land-management options examined and suggested are economically sound as well as environmentally and agriculturally sustainable. The aim is to provide quantitative estimates (including uncertainty) of how the carbon stocks of agricultural soils of the European part of the former Soviet Union have changed over the past decade, how they are likely to change in the future, how they could be increased, and the potential impact of climate change on these carbon stocks. The results will be invaluable for NIS countries in assessing strategies to meet greenhouse gas emission reduction targets under Article 3.4 of the Kyoto Protocol.

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Origin: /Bund/UBA/UFORDAT

Tags: Kyoto ? Bodenkohlenstoff ? Emissionsminderungsziel ? Kohlenstoff ? Kyoto-Protokoll ? Landnutzungsänderung ? Geografisches Informationssystem ? Kohlenstoffbilanz ? Luftreinhaltung ? Kohlenstoffsenke ? Sozioökonomie ? Szenario ? Ackerboden ? Agrarmanagement ? Treibhausgasminderung ? Bodenbelastung ? Flächennutzung ? Interessenvertreter ? Management ? Simulation ? Umweltforschung ? Umweltmodell ? Schadstoffsenke ? Nachhaltige Entwicklung ? Modellierung ? Europa ? Klimafolgen ? Schutzziel ? Freilandversuch ? Klimawandel ? Umweltveränderung ? Datenbank ? Sozioökonomische Merkmale ? Sowjetunion ? Treibhausgas ? Landwirtschaftliche Fläche ? Schadstoffminderung ? Sowjetunion [ehemalig] ? Kyoto-Protokoll [Klimaschutzvertrag 1997] ?

Region: Saxony-Anhalt

Bounding box: 11.7333° .. 11.7333° x 52° .. 52°

License: cc-by-nc-nd/4.0

Language: Deutsch

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Time ranges: 2002-05-01 - 2004-04-30

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