caa a22 4500 445892307 CHVBK 20180317145620.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10750-011-0736-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10750-011-0736-y Cultivating the climate: socio-economic prospects and consequences of climate-friendly peat land management in Germany [Elektronische Daten] [Lena Schaller, Jochen Kantelhardt, Matthias Drösler] About 30% of the world's soil carbon is stored in peat soils. Peat land's functional principle of carbon storage greatly depends on management strategies. Therefore, agricultural peat land use becomes a focal point of interest in the current debate on climate protection. Agricultural management demands a drawdown of the water-level that causes degradation of the soils, as well as trace-gas emissions which have a negative impact on greenhouse-gas balance. Climate-friendly peat land management strategies, however, demand enhanced groundwater tables and decreased land-use intensity. Against this background, we analyse ways of re-organising agricultural peat land use within a case study located in Germany, where intensive peat land use accounts for 2.3-5.1% of the country's overall greenhouse-gas emission. The study takes place in six regions which represent all possible socio-economic and natural conditions with regard to the range of existing peat land types, range of management and cultivation types, as well as the range of land-use intensity. To analyse potentials and effects of re-organising peat land use, stakeholder workshops and extensive farm surveys were carried out. The results indicate that reservations exist as regards a re-organisation of peat land management. Financial compensation for farmers appears necessary. The results also show that the potential of rearrangement throughout the regions varies significantly, mainly according to the existing level of interconnection and cooperation between local stakeholders, the technical feasibility of restoration and water logging and the level of agricultural profitability of peat land cultivation with regard to income, capital commitment and the share of affected peat land area. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Agricultural peat land use nationallicence Reduction of greenhouse gases nationallicence Farm survey nationallicence Economic consequences nationallicence Schaller Lena Institute of Agricultural and Forestry Economics, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Feistmantelstr. 4, 1180, Vienna, Austria aut Kantelhardt Jochen Institute of Agricultural and Forestry Economics, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Feistmantelstr. 4, 1180, Vienna, Austria aut Drösler Matthias Department of Ecology and Ecosystem-Management, Technical University of Munich, Emil-Ramann-Str. 6, 85350, Freising, Germany aut Hydrobiologia Springer Netherlands 674/1(2011-10-01), 91-104 0018-8158 674:1<91 2011 674 10750 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-011-0736-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-011-0736-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schaller Lena Institute of Agricultural and Forestry Economics, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Feistmantelstr. 4, 1180, Vienna, Austria aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kantelhardt Jochen Institute of Agricultural and Forestry Economics, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Feistmantelstr. 4, 1180, Vienna, Austria aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Drösler Matthias Department of Ecology and Ecosystem-Management, Technical University of Munich, Emil-Ramann-Str. 6, 85350, Freising, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Hydrobiologia Springer Netherlands 674/1(2011-10-01), 91-104 0018-8158 674:1<91 2011 674 10750 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer