Classification and valuation of soil ecosystem services

Jónsson, Jón Hilmar; Davíðsdóttir, Brynhildur

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2016.02.010

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“…The literature abounds for studies on soil and ESs with the majority of those focusing on provisioning and regulating ESs, and most research conducted in Europe (Adhikari & Hartemink, ). Soil ESs can be defined as the benefits people obtain from soils (Dominati, Patterson, & Mackay, ); those have significant economic value (Jónsson & Davíðsdóttir, ) and are also important to nature conservancy. The SOC stock is central for soil health, fertility, quality, and productivity.…”

Section: The Soc Stock Soil‐derived Ecosystem Services and Soil Degmentioning

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Soil organic carbon stock as an indicator for monitoring land and soil degradation in relation to United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals

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Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in September 2015 aim to end hunger and poverty, to protect the Planet, and to ensure peace and prosperity for all. The soil organic carbon (SOC) stock is a major planetary resource supporting many critically important ecosystem services (ESs) and underpins realization of some of the SDGs at the national level. Thus, decrease in the SOC stock is among the significant universal indicators for land and soil degradation and compromises efforts to achieve the SDGs especially those with reference to food, health, water, climate, and land management. However, there is currently no well‐established relationship (i.e., quantitative evidence) between the SOC stock and the level of ESs attributable to it. Further, basic soil data and monitoring systems including those of SOC stock and its changes are not available for many regions and nations. This uncertainty affects the suitability of using the SOC stock as absolute indicator to monitor changes in land and soil degradation and, particularly, in relation to the SDG monitoring framework. Thus, although the SOC stock is arguably an important indicator for land and soil degradation among others, more research and data on a national level are needed to establish the relationship between the SOC stock and the targets to monitor progress towards achieving the SDGs with reference to food, health, water, climate, and land management. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first review on the suitability of the SOC stock as an indicator for monitoring land and soil degradation with regard to the SDG framework.

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Section: The Soc Stock Soil‐derived Ecosystem Services and Soil Degmentioning

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Soil organic carbon stock as an indicator for monitoring land and soil degradation in relation to United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals

2019

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“…In "The Economics of Ecosystem and Biodiversity" (TEEB) assessment [3], soils are framed as ecological processes providing the final ecosystem services. Hence, soils belong to the so-called "ecological infrastructure" (EI) and can be defined as "soil natural capital, its properties and components, and soil supporting functions that underlie and drive other ecosystem services (cultural, regulating, and provisioning)" (definition modified from [14]). Figure 1.…”

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“…Framework for the provision of ecosystem services from soil natural capital. Adapted from [11] and [14].…”

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A Holistic View of Soils in Delivering Ecosystem Services in Forests: A Case Study in South Korea

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In 1955, after the Korean War, only 35% of the national land area in South Korea was covered by forests. In the 1960s, the Korean Government implemented the national forestation program in order to increase the extent of the forest surface and thereby counteract the negative ecological consequences from deforestation, such as erosion and ground instability. According to previous studies, this led to an increase in carbon (C) accumulated in the forest biomass of 1.48 Gt CO 2 (0.40 Gt C) in the period 1954-2012. However, these studies did not take into account the amount of soil organic carbon (SOC) that was accumulated during that period and the influence of management practices on soil ecosystem services. Currently, South Korean authorities are considering the idea of implementing some forest management practices in order to increase timber extraction (e.g., by reducing the cutting age of the trees or by applying thinning and tending measures). In this study, we assess the influence of these management regimes on SOC dynamics and propose a theoretical framework to assess the influence of forest management practices on three ecosystem services, namely, C sequestration, water supply, and biomass production, while considering soil functioning, and especially SOC, as a group of supporting services underpinning the three named ecosystem services. We find that, in terms of SOC sequestration, reducing the cutting age from 80 to 40 years would be suitable only in the case of high biomass production forests, whereas in the case of lower biomass production forests reducing the cutting age would achieve very low SOC levels. However, we propose that increasing tree species diversity, even though it would not lead to a direct increase in the SOC content, could help to lessen the negative effects of reducing the cutting age by improving other soil properties, which in turn positively affect soil functioning (e.g., soil biodiversity, nutrient availability) and the resilience of the forest ecosystem. Finally, we discuss potential policy approaches to incentivize sustainable management practices in South Korean forests from a soil protection perspective.

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“…The development in soil science towards a better transfer of knowledge and the importance of soils through the use of ES is seen in the development of many frameworks proposed over the last years (Dominati et al 2010;Robinson et al 2013;Jónsson and Davíðsdóttir 2016;Schwilch et al 2016). The framework proposed by Schwilch et al (2016) builds on already existing frameworks for soil-related ES and aims at providing a more suitable platform for stakeholders by defining a consistent and accessible terminology.…”

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Incorporating soil ecosystem services into urban planning: status, challenges and opportunities

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Context Traditionally soils have not received much attention in urban planning. For this, tools are needed that can both be understood both by soil scientists and urban planners. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to enhance the role of soil knowledge in urban planning practice, through the following objectives: (1) identifying the role soil plays in recent urban plans; (2) analysing the ecosystem services and indicators used in soil science in an urban context; and (3) inferring the main challenges and opportunities to integrate soil into urban planning. Methods Seven urban plans and reports of world cities that include sustainability goals were analysed using text-mining and qualitative analysis, with a critical view on the inclusion of soil-related concepts. Secondly, the contribution of soil science to urban planning was assessed with an overview of case studies in the past decade that focus on soil-related ecosystem services in urban context. Results The results show an overall weak attention to soil and soil-related ecosystem services in the implementation and monitoring phases of urban plans. The majority of soil science case studies uses a haphazard approach to measure ecosystem service indicators which may not capture the ecosystem services appropriately and hence lack relevance for urban planning. Conclusions Even though the most urban plans assessed recognize soil as a key resource, most of them fail to integrate indicators to measure or monitor soil-related functions. There is a need to develop soilrelated ecosystem services that can be easily integrated and understood by other fields.

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Classification and valuation of soil ecosystem services

Cited by 148 publications

References 53 publications

Soil organic carbon stock as an indicator for monitoring land and soil degradation in relation to United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals

Soil organic carbon stock as an indicator for monitoring land and soil degradation in relation to United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals

A Holistic View of Soils in Delivering Ecosystem Services in Forests: A Case Study in South Korea

Incorporating soil ecosystem services into urban planning: status, challenges and opportunities

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