The environmental impact of dairy production on poorly drained soils under future climate scenarios for Ireland

Sharma, Pooja; Humphreys, J.; Holden, Nicholas M.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.06.074

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“…Eutrophication potential [46,82,86,124,138,148,149,190,207,209,217,221] Acidification potential [32,[80][81][82]86,87,124,138,148,149,190,205,207,217,221] Soil quality…”

Section: Air Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability Indicators for Dairy Cattle Farms in European Union Countries: A Systematic Literature Review

Pavanello,

Franchini,

Bovolenta

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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The European cattle milk sector has rapidly intensified in recent decades. This trend has received widespread disapproval from the public, which highlights the many problems linked to intensification. To address these concerns, agricultural policies commonly impose an agroecological transition. In order to evaluate and monitor the degree of sustainability of dairy cattle farms over time, many sets of indicators have been proposed in recent years. However, these indicators have often referred only to specific aspects of sustainability or have been generically proposed for the entire agricultural sector, and therefore, they are not capable of capturing the peculiarities and the complexity of the dairy cattle sector. A systematic review of the scientific literature was carried out to obtain a complete picture of the indicators proposed for the European context. A total of 325 out of over 6700 papers were selected, and three pillars—environmental, economic, and social pillars—were explored. A total of 70 indicators were identified, which could help build a complete and less sectoral picture of sustainability than that proposed so far. A total of 22 indicators were associated with the environmental pillar, 18 indicators were associated with the economic pillar, and 17 indicators were associated with the social pillar, while 12 indicators were associated with two different pillars. With reference to the measurement methods, considerable variability was highlighted, which did not allow us to identify or propose unique methods for measuring each indicator.

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“…Eutrophication potential [46,82,86,124,138,148,149,190,207,209,217,221] Acidification potential [32,[80][81][82]86,87,124,138,148,149,190,205,207,217,221] Soil quality…”

Section: Air Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability Indicators for Dairy Cattle Farms in European Union Countries: A Systematic Literature Review

Pavanello,

Franchini,

Bovolenta

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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“…Whether LCAs, MFAs of important resources, or footprints of carbon, energy, and water, all these studies focus on quantifying the environmental impact of food products and systems and occasionally on strategies for reducing impact through technology, industrial practices, or consumer choice. Only a very few (e.g., Sharma, Humphreys, & Holden, ) have addressed or considered the issue of climate change adaptation, even though numerous studies have highlighted the particular vulnerability of agriculture under global warming, for example due to water scarcity (Iglesias, Quiroga, Moneo, & Garrote, ) or changes in crop yield and extent from the effect of warming temperatures (Pathak et al., ). It follows that relative to other sectors, agriculture will likely need to adapt to climate change more quickly and aggressively given its direct exposure and vulnerability to a changing climate.…”

Section: Industrial Ecology: a Perpetually Evolving Fieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the layered pathway the tools of industrial ecology are used to assess the performance of different adaptation and resilience strategies to understand the potential environmental impacts and anticipate unintended consequences of a strategy, or to select the least impactful strategy as in Sharma et al. (). For example, under increasing drought frequency and duration, an LCA could be used to compare the environmental performance of developing increased water storage or seawater desalination to ensure agriculture has sufficient water supply.…”

Section: Industrial Ecology: a Perpetually Evolving Fieldmentioning

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The role of industrial ecology in food and agriculture's adaptation to climate change

Kendall

Spang

2019

J of Industrial Ecology

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The food and agriculture sectors contribute significantly to climate change, but are also particularly vulnerable to its effects. Industrial ecology has robustly addressed these sectors' contributions to climate change, but not their vulnerability to climate change. Climate change vulnerability must be addressed through development of climate change adaptation and resiliency strategies.However, there is a fundamental tension between the primary objectives of industrial ecology (efficiency, cyclic flows, and pollution prevention) and what is needed for climate change adaptation and resiliency. We develop here two potential ways through which the field can overcome (or work within) this tension and combine the tools and methods of industrial ecology with the science and process of climate change adaptation. The first layers industrial ecology tools on top of climate change adaptation strategies, allowing one to, for example, compare the environmental impacts of different adaptation strategies. The other embeds climate change adaptation and resiliency within industrial ecology tools, for example, by redefining the functional unit in life cycle assessment (LCA) to include functions of resiliency. In both, industrial ecology plays a somewhat narrow role, informing climate change adaptation and resilience decision-making by providing quantitative indicators of environmental performance. This role for industrial ecology is important given the significant contributions and potential for mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from food and agriculture. However, it suggests that industrial ecology's role in climate adaptation will be as an evaluator of adaptation strategies, rather than an originator. K E Y W O R D Scyclic flows, efficiency, industrial ecology, life cycle assessment (LCA), mitigation, resilience 1.

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“…Despite high economic importance, this land use comes with noteworthy implications for the environment in terms of water resources and water quality (Ruviaro et al, 2020). Conservation agriculture is of utmost importance (Andrade et al, 2012; Hollanda et al, 2015) with special regard to pollution (Becker et al, 2009; Broetto et al, 2017; Klippel, 2016; Sharma et al, 2018) for environmental planning and management (Bastos et al, 2021; Minella et al, 2007; Minella et al, 2022; Santos et al, 2016). Among the important factors in erosion prevention are no‐tillage and extended riparian vegetation, which increase soil infiltration and physically protect streams from (possibly polluted) runoff water.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rainfall event‐based surface runoff and erosion in small watersheds under dairy and direct‐seeding grain production

Ebling

Reichert

Minella

et al. 2022

Hydrological Processes

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A 3-year study on erosion and streamflow was conducted in two adjacent paired watersheds that flow into the Passo Real reservoir, one of the largest and most important reservoirs for human water supply and power generation in southern Brazil. The watersheds have similar land use and soil management, but different size and riparian vegetation. The first objective of the study was to monitor and evaluate hydrosedimentological dynamics and effects of riparian vegetation, over a range of rain events, in the two watersheds; the second was to assess the ability of the Limburg Soil Erosion Model (LISEM) to represent these small watersheds in hydrosedimentological terms (runoff and erosion) under individual rain events, in the context of better understanding the role of riparian vegetation and land cover. LISEM is a hydrological model structured on physically based equations that can be used for planning and conservation purposes. Studied rainfall events between 2016 and 2018 had a wide range in total rainfall (10-170 mm), rainfall intensity in 1 h (3-66 mm h À1 ), stream peak flows (4-5741 L s À1 ), runoff volume (0.02-40 mm), runoff coefficient (0.1-32%), maximum suspended sediment concentration (20-19 611 mg L À1 ), and sediment yield (0.002-33.790 Mg km À2 ). Both watersheds showed a rapid response to rain events with significant runoff generation. Abundance of unpaved roads (often parallel to the slope) promoted high runoff due to channelization effects. South Watershed has 59% more riparian vegetation than North Watershed, but this greater riparian vegetation was not effective in reducing surface runoff and erosion. Furthermore, local adoption of no-tillage was insufficient to control runoff and sediment yield.

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The environmental impact of dairy production on poorly drained soils under future climate scenarios for Ireland

Cited by 4 publications

References 38 publications

Sustainability Indicators for Dairy Cattle Farms in European Union Countries: A Systematic Literature Review

Sustainability Indicators for Dairy Cattle Farms in European Union Countries: A Systematic Literature Review

The role of industrial ecology in food and agriculture's adaptation to climate change

Rainfall event‐based surface runoff and erosion in small watersheds under dairy and direct‐seeding grain production

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