Erosion events; Monitoring; Soil conservation; Sustainable land management; Water erosion; Agricultural land; Czech Republic; Eroded soils; Erosion event; Hillslopes; Land management practices; Materials damage; Socio-economics; Sustainable land managements; Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment; Building and Construction; Environmental Science (all); Strategy and Management; Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering; General Environmental Science
Abstract :
[en] Assessing the impact of water erosion events can provide valuable information for sustainable land management. The Czech Republic's Monitoring Erosion of Agricultural Land program only records erosion events that exceed certain thresholds of erosion tolerance criteria (percentage of affected plot area, quantities of eroded soil, other material damages) as determined by trained authorized employees of land offices. The main goal of this study was to identify major socio-economic characteristics that have promoted the occurrence of water erosion events in the Czech Republic. For this purpose, two variables of erosion event occurrence and event frequency were tested using the data set of 1594 erosion events from 2011 to 2019 in the Czech Republic. Accordingly, five site characteristics and five farm characteristics were examined to determine factors affecting the occurrence of erosion. Results showed that two characteristics (plot size and land tenure) have been confirmed as significant predictors of repeated erosion events (plots with as many as 8 separate erosion events were recorded). The results also showed that there is still a need for strong protection of soil against erosion. Therefore, we recommend that selected systemic measures in the form of agri-environmental standards (GAEC) should be updated to facilitate stricter soil protection in the long-term EU budget. These findings have enabled us to formulate practical recommendations for more effective protection of agricultural land against water erosion.
Disciplines :
Environmental sciences & ecology
Author, co-author :
Sklenicka, Petr ; Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Efthimiou, Nikolaos ; Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Zouhar, Jan ; Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic ; University of Economics Prague, Department of Econometrics, Faculty of Informatics and Statistics, Prague, Czech Republic
van den Brink, Adri ; Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic ; Wageningen University, Landscape Architecture Group, Netherlands
Kottova, Blanka; Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Vopravil, Jan; Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic ; Research Institute for Soil and Water Conservation, Prague, Czech Republic
Zastera, Vojtech ; Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Gebhart, Michal; Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Bohnet, Iris C. ; Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Molnarova, Kristina Janeckova ; Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Azadi, Hossein ; Université de Liège - ULiège > TERRA Research Centre > Modélisation et développement ; Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic ; Research Group Climate Change and Security, Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Language :
English
Title :
Impact of sustainable land management practices on controlling water erosion events: The case of hillslopes in the Czech Republic
MSMT - Ministerstvo školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy České republiky
Funding text :
This research was financially supported by a grant donnated by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic ( CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_026/0008403 ).
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