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Studies and Publications

Studies

• Soil organic matter management across the EU – best practices, constraints and trade-offs (October 2011)

• Report on best practices for limiting soil sealing and mitigating its effects (April 2011)

• Soil biodiversity: functions, threats and tools for policy makers (February 2010)

• Review of existing information on the interrelations between soil and climate change (December 2008)

• Evaluation of soil protection aspects in certain programmes of measures adopted by Member States (November 2007)

Publications

• Soil - the hidden part of the climate cycle (brochure)

• Soil biodiversity - The factory of life (leaflet)

• The factory of life - Why soil biodiversity is so important (brochure)

• Environment fact sheet: Soil - a key resource for the EU (2010)

• Environment fact sheet: soil protection - a new policy for the EU (2007)

• Soil Protection - The story behind the Strategy

• Soil atlases of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission:

  • Soil Atlas of Europe

• European Atlas of Soil Biodiversity

• Soil Atlas of the Northern Circumpolar Region

• Derivation methods of soil screening values in Europe

• Common criteria for risk area identification according to soil threats

• Reports from the Working Groups set up in preparation of the Strategy:

  • Volume 1: Introduction and executive summary

  • Volume 2: Erosion

  • Volume 3: Organic matter

  • Volume 4: Contamination and land management

  • Volume 5: Monitoring

  • Volume 6: Research, sealing & cross-cutting issues

Other useful material

• SoCo-Project: Sustainable Agriculture and Soil Conservation

• Environment for Europeans, September 2008, Green Week 2008 - Only One Earth

• LIFE projects on soil, land use and agriculture

• LIFE project SOWAP (Soil and Water Protection)