Natural capital and ecosystem services, developing an appropriate soils framework as a basis for valuation

Robinson, David A.; Hockley, Neal; Cooper, David M.; Emmett, Bridget A.; Keith, Aidan M.; Lebron, Inma; Reynolds, B.; Tipping, Edward; Tye, Andrew; Watts, C. W.; Whalley, W. R.; Black, H. I. J.; Warren, G. P.; Robinson, Jenny

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“…Indeed, this concept, or a variant like the soil "infrastructure" (Bristow et al, 2010), has been mentioned with increasing frequency in the soil science literature over the last few years (e.g., Palm et al, 2007;Clothier et al, 2011;Robinson et al, 2012aRobinson et al, ,b, 2013aDominati E. J. et al, 2014;Hewitt et al, 2015).…”

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Soil “Ecosystem” Services and Natural Capital: Critical Appraisal of Research on Uncertain Ground

Baveye

Gowdy

2016

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Soil “Ecosystem” Services and Natural Capital: Critical Appraisal of Research on Uncertain Ground

Baveye

Gowdy

2016

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“…These functions determine the ability of a soil to deliver and support ecosystem goods and services, which have been linked to human health and wellbeing, but are often difficult to quantify. Soils are typically recognised for their role in provisioning goods such as building materials, fresh water, fuel, fibre and food (Robinson et al, 2013). Soils also interact with other environmental components (air and water) and provide a platform for infrastructure.…”

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“…Supporting services provided by soils include soil formation, soil fertility, biogeochemical cycling (C storage and nutrient cycling), decomposition of organic materials and plant available water. A number of cultural services are also supported such as recreational surfaces (Robinson et al, 2013) and heritage services including preserving historic artefacts, burial grounds and non-monetary values, such as containing information of events that have occurred in historical and geological timescales (Costantini and L'Abate, 2009). There are a number of databases and protection strategies in place for soils with cultural heritage (otherwise known as pedosites, geosites and geoparks) (Serrano and Ruiz-Flaño, 2007;UN-ESCO, 2016).…”

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Physical soil quality indicators for monitoring British soils

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Abstract. Soil condition or quality determines its ability to deliver a range of functions that support ecosystem services, human health and wellbeing. The increasing policy imperative to implement successful soil monitoring programmes has resulted in the demand for reliable soil quality indicators (SQIs) for physical, biological and chemical soil properties. The selection of these indicators needs to ensure that they are sensitive and responsive to pressure and change, e.g. they change across space and time in relation to natural perturbations and land management practices. Using a logical sieve approach based on key policy-related soil functions, this research assessed whether physical soil properties can be used to indicate the quality of British soils in terms of their capacity to deliver ecosystem goods and services. The resultant prioritised list of physical SQIs was tested for robustness, spatial and temporal variability, and expected rate of change using statistical analysis and modelling. Seven SQIs were prioritised: soil packing density, soil water retention characteristics, aggregate stability, rate of soil erosion, depth of soil, soil structure (assessed by visual soil evaluation) and soil sealing. These all have direct relevance to current and likely future soil and environmental policy and are appropriate for implementation in soil monitoring programmes.

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“…Schulte et al [22] provided a framework for managing soil-based ecosystem services for the sustainable intensification of agriculture. Robinson et al [23] and Dominati et al [24] also developed their soil frameworks to evaluate ecosystem services. Dominati et al [25] used a soil change-based methodology to quantify and value the services from agro-ecosystems.…”

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Understanding Relationships among Agro-Ecosystem Services Based on Emergy Analysis in Luancheng County, North China

Eneji

Liu

2014

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Exploring the relationship between different services has become the focus of ecosystem services research in recent years. The agro-ecosystem, which accounts for one-third of the global land area, provides lots of services but also disservices, depending on resources provided by other systems. In this paper, we explored the agro-ecosystem from four aspects: a summary of different indicators in the agro-ecosystem, input and output changes with time, relationships between different ecosystem services and disservices, and resource contribution to major services, using Luancheng County of North China as the study area. We then used emergy analysis to unify all the indicators. The conclusions were that the agro-ecosystem maintained provisioning and regulating services but with increasing volatility under continued growth in production inputs and disservice outputs. There was a positive correlation between most of the different services and disservices. Rainfall and groundwater resources were the most used input resources in the agro-ecosystem and all other major ecosystem services depended directly on them.

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Natural capital and ecosystem services, developing an appropriate soils framework as a basis for valuation

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Cited by 156 publications

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Soil “Ecosystem” Services and Natural Capital: Critical Appraisal of Research on Uncertain Ground

Soil “Ecosystem” Services and Natural Capital: Critical Appraisal of Research on Uncertain Ground

Physical soil quality indicators for monitoring British soils

Understanding Relationships among Agro-Ecosystem Services Based on Emergy Analysis in Luancheng County, North China

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