Research project
RECARE (Preventing and remediating degradation of soils in Europe through land care)
- Start date: 1 January 2014
- End date: 31 December 2018
- Funder: EU Horizon 2020
- External primary investigator:
Coen Ritsema (University of Wageningen)
- Co-investigators: Professor Mike Kirkby, Dr Brian Irvine
The main aims of RECARE are to:
- Identify and fill knowledge gaps in the understanding of the complexity and functioning of soil systems under influence of climate and human activities
- Develop and select, in close collaboration with stakeholders, innovative sustainable land management measures that can be expected to combat threats to key soil functions and to restore these functions
- Evaluate the effectiveness of these measures, in terms of soil functions and ecosystem services as well as of costs and benefits
- Evaluate constraints for and ways to facilitate adoption of these measures by stakeholders
- Upscale results from the study site level to the European level to draw more general conclusions
- Carry out an integrated assessment of existing soil related EU and national policies and strategies to identify their impacts, potential inconsistencies or synergies and to derive recommendations for improvement
- Disseminate project results to all relevant stakeholders, from land users to high level policy makers
For more information see the RECARE webpage.