SoilTalks 05 ~ 13 December 2021 @ 16:00 - 17:00 GMT
Nature based solutions: soil-water connections for sustainable landscapes
Soil and water are an integrated system, and work together to provide the different ecosystem services the planet needs for food production, biodiversity sustenance and human health. Yet soil and water have been studied as separated entities, in silos, and therefore creating an incomplete perspective of their functioning. We are missing the part of the puzzle where they meet, and lacking understanding of how to support their ecosystem services and health.
For this SoilTalk, we welcomed three experts who shared their unique perspectives on how we can understand soil-water connections as a whole and support them using a sustainable approach: through nature-based solutions. Nature-based solutions refers to the sustainable management and use of nature for tackling socio-environmental challenges, such as climate change, water security, water pollution, and food security. In this SoilTalk we heard three different perspectives on how is it possible and best to use nature-based solutions for healthy soil-water connections in different landscapes and geographical scales.
Our speakers were:
- Prof. Wouter Buytaert
- Lucia Madrid, Mexican Civil Council for Sustainable Silviculture
- Dr David Gasca Tucker, Atkins Global.
This event was chaired by Macarena L. Cárdenas of earthwatch Europe and moderated by Anna Krzywoszynska of the Institute for Sustainable Food at the University of Sheffield, Soil Care Network.
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