Soil health is an active priority within the policy landscape of Europe. The EU Soil Strategy and the EU Soil Monitoring and Resilience Directive (SMD) have real potential to support changes in soil health for forest, agricultural and urban land-uses, especially if they are effectively informed by scientific evidence. Yet the translation of soil knowledge to be simultaneously actionable, evidence-based and context-relevant across spatial and temporal scales is a non-trivial task, both with respect to process and content. This session is hosted by members of the PSOILICY project (connecting soil science and policy through national hubs, policy labs and tools for evidence-based soil governance) and invites contributions from researchers working on soil health within the science-policy interface. Presentations highlighting mechanisms for policy support, examples of soil knowledge translation, frameworks or platforms for providing policy-relevant soil knowledge, as well as digital, data-driven and AI-enabled approaches for integrating, interpreting and delivering soil knowledge for policy use, are welcome. Presentations addressing the communication of scientific uncertainty in policy are particularly encouraged.
SSS12
Connecting policy and science for healthy soils in Europe
Convener:
Amanda Matson
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Co-conveners:
Marion Bardy,
Christophe Schwartz,
Bojan Blazica,
Chiara Piccini