Socio-economic factors and soil erosion

Thursday 7 March  2002

13.30 Introduction

John Boardman

14.00 Soil Erosion in Europe: brief overviews

14.00 Jean Poesen, Gert Verstraeten, Jeroen Nachtergaele, Gerard Govers, Tom Vanwalleghem, Kristof Van Oost, Greet Ruysschaert, Anton Van Rompaey, Lieven Ost (Belgium): Soil Erosion processes related to landuse in Belgium: an overview

14.15 Bob Evans (UK): Soil erosion in the UK - an overview

14.30 Veronique Auzet (France): Soil erosion in France: review and challenges

14.45 Dino Torri, Paolo Bazzoffi, Constantinos Kosmas and Adolfo Calvo (Italy): A summary of soil erosion problems in the Mediterranean

15.00 Break

15.30 Land use changes in Europe and implications for erosion in Europe  

Anne Gobin, Mike Kirkby, Gerard Govers, Olivier Cerdan and Anton Van Rompaey: The Pan-European Soil Erosion Risk Assessment Project

16.00 Case studies of impacts of socio-economics on soil erosion

16.30 Veronique Souchere, Christine King, Nicholas Dubreuil, Veronique Lecomte-Morel, Yves Le Bissonnais and Martine Chalat (France): Grassland decrease: the role of socio-economic factors and the consequences for runoff and soil erosion

16.50 Helge Lundekvam, Eirek Romstad and Lillian Oygarden (Norway): Agricultural policies in Norway and effects on soil erosion

17.30 – 18.30 Management Committee COST 623

Friday 8 March 2002

Morning: put up posters

09.00 Societal responses: policy, legislation and farm level response

09.00 Olafur Arnalds and Bjorn Barkarson (Iceland): From soil erosion research to sustainable grazing practices by use of government subsidies

09.20 A. Veihe, B., Hasholt and I.G. Schiotz: (Denmark): Soil erosion in Denmark: processes and politics

09.40 Klaus Mueller, Katherina Helming, Hans-Juergen Philipp, Harald Kaechele and Thomas Kalettka (Germany): Environmental evidence and stakeholder attitudes to agro-environmental policy: a case study from Northeast Germany

10.00 Anne Mathieu and Alexandre Joannon (France): Farmers' conceptions of water erosion in the Pays de Caux, France: local issues, agrarian system changes and solutions in view

Discussion

11.00

Break

11.30

Oral poster presentation of posters (2 min per poster)

Poster session

13.00

Lunch

14.15

14.15 Invited speaker: Jeff Herrick (USDA/ARS): Ecological state and transition models: a new framework for managing soil erosion in the context of socio-economic change

14.45 John Boardman (UK): Muddy floods on the South Downs - problem and response

15.05 Gert Verstraaten, Anton van Rompaey, Kristof Van Oost, Jean Poesen, Gerard Govers and Katleen Gillijns (Belgium): Implementation of best management practices in Flanders (Belgium) and their impact on soil loss and sediment delivery

15.30

Break

16.00 Discussion groups

Discussion Group topics (Chairs):

1.        Learning from the past (John Boardman)

2.        Research priorities (Jean Poesen)

3.        How can we achieve better integration? (Anton Imeson)

4.        Is there a better relationship between science and the end user? (Mike Kirkby)

09.00

09.30 Reports from Discussion Groups and discussion

Eric Lambin (Belgium): Socio-economic drivers of land-use change

The challenge of sustainable soil protection

10.45 Concluding remarks

John Boardman and Anton Imeson

11.00

Break

11.45 Management Committee COST 623

14.00

COST Small Group Meeting (Katherina Helming: to plan meeting in Muencheberg

Name

Title

Ilona Barlund, Sirkka Tattari and Hanna-Riikka Tuhkanen (Finland)

Aspects of the influence of erosion and sediment transport on surface water quality in south-western Finland

Charles Bielders (Belgium)

Farmers’ perceptions of water erosion in the loam belt of central Belgium

Celeste Coelho (Portugal)

Combining socio-economic and environmental factors in defining and mapping possible land-use scenarios and associated soil erosion hazard: examples from the MEDAFOR project

Hazel Faulkner, Jose Ruiz, Paul Zukowskj and Stuart Downward (UK)

Erosion risk with rapid and extensive agricultural clearances on differing lithologies in S.E. Spain

K Gillijns, G Govers, J Poesen and E Van Hecke (Belgium)

Effects of soil tillage systems on runoff production

Pavel Jambor (Slovakia)

Soil quality indexes in the catena of hilly land (Trnaska pahorkatina, Slovakia)

Pavol Jambor and Milos Stankoviansky (Slovakia)

Review of soil erosion in Slovakia

Philippe Martin (France)

Building a network for runoff-data production in Upper-Normandy (France): socio-technical aspects

Johannes Schuler (Germany)

Economic effects of the implementation of the German Soil Conservation Act

Anton J J Van Rompaey, Gerard Govers, Etienne Van Hecke and Kristine Jacobs (Belgium)

The impacts of land use policy on soil erosion risk: a case study in central Belgium

Name

Paper/Poster

Helge Lundekvam (Norway)

Agricultural policies in Norway and effects on soil erosion

Eirek Romstad (Norway)

As above

Lillian Oygarden (MC)

As above

Dino Torri  (MC) et al

Review of erosion in the Mediterranean

Paolo Bazzoffi (Italy) (MC)

As above

Giovanni Ferrari (Italy)

As above

Eric Lambin (Belgium)

Socio-economic drivers of land-use change

Eva Kamphorst (Belgium)

No

Martha Bakker Belgium

No

Gert Verstraeten (Belgium)

Impact of the implementation of best management practices in central Belgium on soil erosion by water and sediment delivery

Jean Poesen (MC)

Review of erosion in Belgium

Gerard Govers and/or Anne Gobin

Erosion and  land use  in Europe – the PESERA Project

Bob Evans (UK)

Review of UK erosion

David Favis-Mortlock (UK)

No

Hazel Faulkner and Stuart Downward (UK)

Erosion risk associated with rapid and extensive agricultural clearances on differing lithologies near Sorbas, southeastern Spain

Paul Farres (UK)

No

James Keay-Bright (UK)

No

John Boardman (UK)(MC)

Muddy floods on the South Downs – problem and response

Mike Kirkby (UK) (MC)

No

Alexandre Joannon (France)

Farmers’ conception of water erosion in the Pay de Caux, France

Remi Koller (France)

Veronique Souchere (France) et al

Grassland decrease: the role of socio-economic factors and consequences for runoff and erosion

Veronique Auzet (MC)

Review of soil erosion in France

Johannes Schuler (Germany)

Economic effects of implementation of the German Soil Conservation Act (Poster)

Katherina Helming  et al (Germany) (MC)

Environmental evidence and stakeholder attitudes to agro-environmental policy: a case study from Northeast Germany

Milos Stankoviansky (Slovakia)

Poster

Pavel Jambor (Slovakia)

Poster

Mike Meadows (invited speaker)

Wheat in Swartland, South Africa

Jeff Herrick (invited speaker)

Ecological state and transition models: a new framework for managing soil erosion in the context of socio-economic change

Olafur Arnalds (Iceland) (MC)

From soil erosion research to sustainable grazing practices by use of government subsidies

Bjorn Barkarson (Iceland)

As above

Anton Imeson (Netherlands (MC)

Introduction

Eric Meijs (Netherlands)

South Limburg

Bent Hasholt (Denmark) (MC)

Soil erosion in Denmark: processes and politics (Poster?)