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1. Library Resource

   

   Functional Land Management for managing soil functions: A case-study of the trade-off between primary productivity and carbon storage in response to the intervention of drainage systems in Ireland

   Land Use Policy Volume 47

   Peer-reviewed publication

   September, 2015

   United Kingdom, Ireland, United States of America

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   land management

   land use

   research

   Globally, there is growing demand for increased agricultural outputs. At the same time, the agricultural industry is expected to meet increasingly stringent environmental targets. Thus, there is an urgent pressure on the soil resource to deliver multiple functions simultaneously. The Functional Land Management framework (Schulte et al., 2014) is a conceptual tool designed to support policy making to manage soil functions to meet these multiple demands. This paper provides a first example of a practical application of the Functional Land Management concept relevant to policy stakeholders.

2. Library Resource

   

   The challenge of managing soil functions at multiple scales: An optimisation study of the synergistic and antagonistic trade-offs between soil functions in Ireland

   Land Use Policy Volume 58

   Peer-reviewed publication

   December, 2016

   United Kingdom, Ireland, United States of America

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

   land use

   livestock

   research

   scale

   Recent forecasts show a need to increase agricultural production globally by 60% from 2005 to 2050, in order to meet a rising demand from a growing population. This poses challenges for scientists and policy makers to formulate solutions on how to increase food production and simultaneously meet environmental targets such as the conservation and protection of water, the conservation of biodiversity, and the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions.