Soil area the size of Berlin lost each year due to water erosion in the EU - JRC Science Hub - European Commission
▻https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/soil-area-size-berlin-lost-each-year-due-water-erosion-eu
Soil erosion by water accounts for the greatest loss of soil in Europe compared to other erosion processes, such as wind. The highest average annual rates of soil erosion by water were found in Italy (8.46 t/ha), Slovenia (7.43 t/ha) and Austria (7.19 t/ha), and the lowest were found in Finland (0.06 t/ha), Estonia (0.21 t/ha) and the Netherlands (0.27 t/ha). Agricultural lands account for 68.3% of total soil losses, while forests account for less than 1%. A new high resolution map (100 m) of soil erosion by water in the EU (2010) is now available, providing details of soil erosion by water across the EU.
While recent policy interventions (such as the Good Agricultural and Environment Condition requirements of the CAP, and the EU Soil Thematic Strategy) have reduced the rate of soil loss in the EU by an average of 9.5% overall, and by 20% for arable lands, the study finds that four million hectares of EU croplands have unsustainable rates of soil loss (more than 5 tonnes per hectare per year).
The new assessment of soil loss by water erosion in Europe
▻http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901115300654
▻http://ac.els-cdn.com/S1462901115300654/1-s2.0-S1462901115300654-main.pdf?_tid=f5fd8b26-519a-11e5-8ed8-00000aab0
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