Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) Analysis and Risk Assessment for Soil Compaction—A European Perspective

Schjønning, Per; Akker, J.J.H. van den; Keller, Thomas; Greve, Mogens Humlekrog; Lamandé, Mathieu; Simojoki, Asko; Stettler, Matthias; Arvidsson, Johan; Breuning‐Madsen, Henrik

doi:10.1016/bs.agron.2015.06.001

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“…The specific strength of the concept lies in its adaptability to various impact areas, objectives, and scales of analysis (Tscherning, Helming, Krippner, Sieber, & Paloma, 2012). For example, it has been proposed for soil system analysis by Bouma, de Vos, Sonneveld, Heuvelink, and Stoorvogel (2008) and Schjønning et al (2015). Based on the DPSIR framework, we integrate the five steps of impact assessment ( Figure 1): (1) analysis of future trends and driving forces for soil management; (2) definition of human activities exerting pressures on ecological systems, which in our case is soil management; (3) analysis of the effects of human activities on the state of ecological systems, which are soil processes and soil functions; here, this analytical step concerns the soil system, depicts how soil processes are affected by soil management, and describes how soil processes impact the ensemble of soil functions; (4) assessment and valuation of direct and indirect impacts in the context of social, economic, and environmental targets; here, we use the resource use efficiency and ecosystem service concepts; and (5) elaboration of governance instruments-making use of assessment results-to provoke responses that counteract negative impacts and reinforce positive impacts.…”

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Managing soil functions for a sustainable bioeconomy—Assessment framework and state of the art

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Bioeconomy strategies have been adopted in many countries around the world. Their sustainable implementation requires a management of soils that maintains soil functions and avoids land degradation. Only then, ecosystem services can be maintained and resources used efficiently. We present an analytical framework for impact assessment that links policy and technology driving forces for soil management decisions to soil processes, soil functional changes, and their impacts on ecosystem services and resource use efficiency, both being targets that have been set by society and are anchored in bioeconomy policy strategies and sustainable development goals. Although the resource use efficiency concept has a long-term tradition, most studies of agricultural management do not address the role of soils in their efficiency assessment. The concept of ecosystem services has received increasing attention over the last years; however, its link to soil functions and soil management practices is still not well established. This study is the first to conceptually link the socioeconomic processes of external drivers for soil management with the natural processes of soil functions and connect them back to impacts on the social system. Application of the framework helps strengthen the science-policy interface and to systemically assess and compare the opportunities and threats of soil management practices from the perspective of goals set by society at different spatial and temporal scales. Insights gained in this way can be applied in stakeholder decisionmaking processes and used to inform the design of governance instruments aimed at sustainable soil management within a bioeconomy. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Managing soil functions for a sustainable bioeconomy—Assessment framework and state of the art

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“…Mechanical pressures on soil can damage soil structure, lead to compaction and erosion, and disturb soil biota, all severely damaging soil functions, including the production function (Schjønning et al 2015). High costs of labor and fossil fuels (factor costs) are drivers of reduced tillage (Flessa et al 2012;Techen 2015) (Table 6).…”

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“…High labor costs (factor costs) and the development of agricultural technology have been driving an increase in the weight of machinery for decades in Europe (Schjønning et al 2015) (Table 6). Some measures to address compaction have offset part of the increasing pressure but not sufficient to reverse the trend of increasing compaction (Jones et al 2012).…”

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Pressures on soil functions from soil management in Germany. A foresight review

Techen

Helming

2017

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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Global trends in demand for biomass-based food, feed, energy, and fiber call for a sustainable intensification of agricultural production. From the perspective of sustaining soil functions, this implies the integration of soil productivity with the other soil functions and services, namely carbon sequestration, water purification and retention, and nutrient and matter cycling as well as biodiversity. Soil management is the key to this integration. The proper anticipation of future opportunities and challenges for sustainable soil management requires an analysis of drivers and trends affecting soil management. Here, we review drivers and trends of soil management and their relevance for soil functions taking Germany as an example of industrialized agricultural systems with low yield gaps. We analyzed socio-economic, biophysical and technological drivers and identified two types of future management changes: (1) Quantitative changes, i.e., more or less of the same input factors, such as fertilizers, as part of a moderate intensification. (2) Qualitative changes: There, we found the strongest signals for the following practices: higher precision and lightweight machines triggered by information and communication technology (ICT) and robotics; diversification of crop rotations, including the integration of lignocellulosic crops; inoculation with biota; and new crop varieties. Positive practices may be reinforced by a behavioral trend towards sustainable soil management, driven by increasing awareness, knowledge, and consumer demand. They offer opportunities for relieving mechanical pressures from weight and contact stress, chemical pressures from pesticides and fertilizers and promoting soil biodiversity without compromising the soil's production function. We also found threats, such as increased removal of organic residues and potentially harmful organisms. This foresight study is the first to delineate opportunities and challenges for sustainable soil management and intensification. It informs researchers who intend to improve the knowledge base for reinforcement of positive and mitigation of negative trends of soil management.

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“…Etana et al (2013) stressed the impact of subsoil compaction on preferential flow of water in a sandy clay soil, which can result in a fast transport of nutrients and agrochemicals to deeper soil layers and groundwater. Schjønning et al (2015) present an overview of results of field experiments on crop yield reduction by subsoil compaction. Alblas et al (1994) report average yield reductions in silage maize on sandy soils with a compacted subsoil of 15 % with a wheel load of 5 Mg and 4 % with a wheel load of 2.5 Mg. Håkansson and Reeder (1994) report 2.5 % permanent yield reductions in long-term experiments with wheel loads of 5 Mg applied in the first year of the experiment.…”

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How serious a problem is subsoil compaction in the Netherlands? A survey based on probability sampling

Brus

Akker

2018

SOIL

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Abstract. Although soil compaction is widely recognized as a soil threat to soil resources, reliable estimates of the acreage of overcompacted soil and of the level of soil compaction parameters are not available. In the Netherlands data on subsoil compaction were collected at 128 locations selected by stratified random sampling. A map showing the risk of subsoil compaction in five classes was used for stratification. Measurements of bulk density, porosity, clay content and organic matter content were used to compute the relative bulk density and relative porosity, both expressed as a fraction of a threshold value. A subsoil was classified as overcompacted if either the relative bulk density exceeded 1 or the relative porosity was below 1. The sample data were used to estimate the means of the two subsoil compaction parameters and the overcompacted areal fraction. The estimated global means of relative bulk density and relative porosity were 0.946 and 1.090, respectively. The estimated areal fraction of the Netherlands with overcompacted subsoils was 43 %. The estimates per risk map unit showed two groups of map units: a "low-risk " group (units 1 and 2, covering only 4.6 % of the total area) and a "high-risk" group (units 3, 4 and 5). The estimated areal fraction of overcompacted subsoil was 0 % in the lowrisk unit and 47 % in the high-risk unit. The map contains no information about where overcompacted subsoils occur. This was caused by the poor association of the risk map units 3, 4 and 5 with the subsoil compaction parameters and subsoil overcompaction. This can be explained by the lack of time for recuperation.

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Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) Analysis and Risk Assessment for Soil Compaction—A European Perspective

Cited by 135 publications

References 75 publications

Managing soil functions for a sustainable bioeconomy—Assessment framework and state of the art

Managing soil functions for a sustainable bioeconomy—Assessment framework and state of the art

Pressures on soil functions from soil management in Germany. A foresight review

How serious a problem is subsoil compaction in the Netherlands? A survey based on probability sampling

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