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Author: | Boardman, J. (et al.) |
Title: | Soil erosion and risk-assessment for on- and off-farm impacts: A test case using the Midhurst area, West Sussex, UK |
Journal: | Journal of Environmental Management
2009 : JUN, VOL. 90:8, p. 2578-2588 |
Index terms: | risk analysis climate change agricultural industry land use soil conservation United Kingdom |
Freeterms: | erosion off-site impacts muddy floods Lower Greensand soils Midhurst area Rother Valley Defra |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | Based on in England, Defra [Defra, 2005a. Controlling Soil Erosion: a Manual for the Assessment and Management of Agricultural Land at Risk of Water Erosion in Lowland England. Revised September 2005. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, London] sets out a system of risk-assessment, including ranking of crops susceptible to erosion and anti-erosion measures, that may be selected. It is assesses this system using field data for an area of erodible soils in the Rother valley, Sussex. The Defra approach correctly identifies most at-risk fields and, taken together with land-use maps, allows non-compliance with advice to be highlighted. It is suggests a simple extension to the system which would further identify at-risk fields in terms of possible damage to roads and rivers from muddy runoff. etc. |
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