Search Results - subject:"Soil functions"

Between complexity and unfamiliarity: Preferences for soil-based ecosystem services

Bartkowski, Bartosz; Massenberg, Julian Richard; … - 2022

Soils provide multiple benefits for human well-being, which are largely invisible to most beneficiaries. Here, we present the results of a discrete choice experiment into the preferences of Germans for soil-based ecosystem services. To tackle complexity and unfamiliarity of soils, we express...

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Investigating preferences for soil-based ecosystem services

Bartkowski, Bartosz; Massenberg, Julian Richard; … - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 2 (2022) 2, pp. 1-21

Soil provides multiple benefits for human well-being that are largely invisible to most beneficiaries. Here, we present the results of a discrete choice experiment on the preferences of Germans for soil-based ecosystem services. In an attempt to reduce complexity for respondents, we express...

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Between complexity and unfamiliarity : preferences for soil-based ecosystem services

Bartkowski, Bartosz; Massenberg, Julian Richard; … - 2022

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Soil Quality Indices for Evaluating Smallholder Agricultural Land Uses in Northern Ethiopia

Gelaw, Aweke M.; Singh, B. R.; Lal, R. - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 3, pp. 2322-2337

Tigray, Northern Ethiopia. Using the framework suggested by Karlen and Stott (1994); four soil functions regarding soil …

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Do Current European Policies Prevent Soil Threats and Support Soil Functions?

Glæsner, Nadia; Helming, Katharina; Vries, Wim de - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 12, pp. 9538-9563

. Existing legislation addresses the reduction of the seven soil functions that were analyzed, but there are very few directives … for improving soil functions. Because soil degradation is ongoing in Europe, it raises the question whether existing … legislation is sufficient for maintaining soil resources. Addressing soil functions individually in various directives fails to …

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Economic Analysis on Monetization of Soil Functions

Xi, Zenglei; Zhang, Shaoqing - In: Asian Agricultural Research 05 (2013) 05

On the basis of making clear diversity characteristics of soil functions and multiple characteristics of income, this … paper points out that the monetization of soil functions based functional maintenance and change decision process can be … process will determine monetary value of soil functions. After understanding money and monetization concepts, it introduces …

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