Projecting the impacts of the bioeconomy on Nordic land use and freshwater quality and quantity – an overview
Abstract This paper synthesizes a five-year project (BIOWATER) that assessed the effects of a developing bioeconomy on Nordic freshwaters. We used a catchment perspective and combined several approaches: comparative analyses of long-term data sets from well-monitored catchments (agricultural, with f...
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ftunivoulu:oai:oulu.fi:nbnfi-fe20230901115653 2023-12-17T10:30:05+01:00 Projecting the impacts of the bioeconomy on Nordic land use and freshwater quality and quantity – an overview Vermaat, J. E. (Jan E.) Skarbøvik, E. (Eva) Kronvang, B. (Brian) Juutinen, A. (Artti) Hellsten, S. (Seppo) Kyllmar, K. (Katarina) Solheim, A. L. (Anne Lyche) Kløve, B. (Bjørn) 2023 application/pdf http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe20230901115653 eng eng Elsevier info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Agriculture Boreal landscapes Final ecosystem services Forestry Intensified exploitation Mitigation measures Recreation Scenarios Shared socio-economic pathways Water resources management info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2023 ftunivoulu 2023-11-23T00:00:30Z Abstract This paper synthesizes a five-year project (BIOWATER) that assessed the effects of a developing bioeconomy on Nordic freshwaters. We used a catchment perspective and combined several approaches: comparative analyses of long-term data sets from well-monitored catchments (agricultural, with forestry, and near pristine) across Fennoscandia, catchment biogeochemical modelling and ecosystem services assessment for integration. Various mitigation measures were also studied. Benchmark Shared Socio-economic Pathways were downscaled and articulated in dialogue with national stakeholder representatives leading to five Nordic Bioeconomy Pathways (NBPs) describing plausible but different trajectories of societal development towards 2050.These were then used for catchment modelling and ecosystem service assessment. Key findings from the work synthesized here are: (a) The monitoring results from 69 catchments demonstrate that agricultural lands exported an order of magnitude more nutrients than natural catchments (medians 44 vs 4 kg P km−2 y-1 and 1450 vs 139 kg N km−2 y-1) whilst forests were intermediate (7 kg P km−2 y-1 and 200 kg N km−2 y-1). (b) Our contrasting scenarios led to substantial differences in land use patterns, which affected river flow as well as nutrient loads in two of the four modelled catchments (Danish Odense Å and Norwegian Skuterud), but not in two others (Swedish catchment C6 and Finnish Simojoki). (c) Strongly contrasting scenarios (NBP1 maximizing resource circularity versus NBP5 maximizing short-term profit) were found to lead to similar monetary estimates of total societal benefits, though for different underlying reasons — a pattern similar across the six studied Nordic catchments. (d) The ecological status of small to medium sized rivers in agricultural landscapes benefitted greatly from an increase in riparian forest cover from 10 % to 60 %. Riparian buffer strips, constructed wetlands, rewetting of ditched peatlands, and similar nature-based solutions optimize natural biogeochemical ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Fennoscandia Jultika - University of Oulu repository Simojoki ENVELOPE(25.050,25.050,65.617,65.617) |
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Agriculture Boreal landscapes Final ecosystem services Forestry Intensified exploitation Mitigation measures Recreation Scenarios Shared socio-economic pathways Water resources management Vermaat, J. E. (Jan E.) Skarbøvik, E. (Eva) Kronvang, B. (Brian) Juutinen, A. (Artti) Hellsten, S. (Seppo) Kyllmar, K. (Katarina) Solheim, A. L. (Anne Lyche) Kløve, B. (Bjørn) Projecting the impacts of the bioeconomy on Nordic land use and freshwater quality and quantity – an overview |
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Abstract This paper synthesizes a five-year project (BIOWATER) that assessed the effects of a developing bioeconomy on Nordic freshwaters. We used a catchment perspective and combined several approaches: comparative analyses of long-term data sets from well-monitored catchments (agricultural, with forestry, and near pristine) across Fennoscandia, catchment biogeochemical modelling and ecosystem services assessment for integration. Various mitigation measures were also studied. Benchmark Shared Socio-economic Pathways were downscaled and articulated in dialogue with national stakeholder representatives leading to five Nordic Bioeconomy Pathways (NBPs) describing plausible but different trajectories of societal development towards 2050.These were then used for catchment modelling and ecosystem service assessment. Key findings from the work synthesized here are: (a) The monitoring results from 69 catchments demonstrate that agricultural lands exported an order of magnitude more nutrients than natural catchments (medians 44 vs 4 kg P km−2 y-1 and 1450 vs 139 kg N km−2 y-1) whilst forests were intermediate (7 kg P km−2 y-1 and 200 kg N km−2 y-1). (b) Our contrasting scenarios led to substantial differences in land use patterns, which affected river flow as well as nutrient loads in two of the four modelled catchments (Danish Odense Å and Norwegian Skuterud), but not in two others (Swedish catchment C6 and Finnish Simojoki). (c) Strongly contrasting scenarios (NBP1 maximizing resource circularity versus NBP5 maximizing short-term profit) were found to lead to similar monetary estimates of total societal benefits, though for different underlying reasons — a pattern similar across the six studied Nordic catchments. (d) The ecological status of small to medium sized rivers in agricultural landscapes benefitted greatly from an increase in riparian forest cover from 10 % to 60 %. Riparian buffer strips, constructed wetlands, rewetting of ditched peatlands, and similar nature-based solutions optimize natural biogeochemical ... |
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Vermaat, J. E. (Jan E.) Skarbøvik, E. (Eva) Kronvang, B. (Brian) Juutinen, A. (Artti) Hellsten, S. (Seppo) Kyllmar, K. (Katarina) Solheim, A. L. (Anne Lyche) Kløve, B. (Bjørn) |
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Vermaat, J. E. (Jan E.) Skarbøvik, E. (Eva) Kronvang, B. (Brian) Juutinen, A. (Artti) Hellsten, S. (Seppo) Kyllmar, K. (Katarina) Solheim, A. L. (Anne Lyche) Kløve, B. (Bjørn) |
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Projecting the impacts of the bioeconomy on Nordic land use and freshwater quality and quantity – an overview |
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Projecting the impacts of the bioeconomy on Nordic land use and freshwater quality and quantity – an overview |
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Projecting the impacts of the bioeconomy on Nordic land use and freshwater quality and quantity – an overview |
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Projecting the impacts of the bioeconomy on Nordic land use and freshwater quality and quantity – an overview |
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Projecting the impacts of the bioeconomy on Nordic land use and freshwater quality and quantity – an overview |
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projecting the impacts of the bioeconomy on nordic land use and freshwater quality and quantity – an overview |
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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