Kerner von Marilaun Workshop 2007:
The challenge of sustaining soils: lessons from historical experience for a sustainable future
Organizators: |
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Downloads |
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Download the 2007 Kerner von Marilaun Declaration on Soils |
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Die Kerner von Marilaun Boden-Deklaration 2007 (Übersetzung) |
Co-sponsors: |
BOKU, Vienna |
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IFF, University of Klagenfurt |
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ARC, Austrian Research Centers GmbH |
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International Union of Soil Sciences, Commission 2.2 Soil Chemistry |
Date: |
8.-9. November 2007 |
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Venue: |
Boku, University for Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna |
Contributors: |
Dr. Klaus Butterbach-Bahl |
Dr. Christian Feller |
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| Prof. Emmanuel Frossard | |
| Prof. Martin Gerzabek | |
| Prof. Gerhard Glatzel | |
| Prof. Ellen Kandeler | |
| Prof. Klaus Katzensteiner | |
| Prof. Fridolin Krausmann | |
| Prof. Nebojsa Nakicenovic | |
| Prof. Christian Pfister | |
| Dr. Kate Showers | |
| Prof. Verena Winiwarter | |
| Dr. Wilfried Winiwarter |
Aims of the workshop:
This workshop aims at producing a joint discussion paper co-authored by experts on energy, on biomass, soil scientists and environmental historians, which will highlight the long-term socio-ecological trends of the social use of soils and allow the evaluation of sustainability policy concepts in a longer-than-usual time frame.
We are currently undergoing a dramatic, almost unnoticed agricultural revolution to meet the needs of a growing world population hungry for food and energy under new, emission-restrained framework conditions. In its scope and size it is comparable to the transformation of agriculture which took place as part of the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century.
High-End-Agriculture, as we know it, is a historically new phenomenon. By putting it into historical and international context, we try to evaluate its constraints with respect to a sustainable use of soils, the major non-renewable resource a sustainable society is built on.
The workshop aims at bringing together expertise from several usually not connected fields within soils sciences and beyond.
The workshop will start with invited presentations covering energy, soil and biomass as main building blocks of our common argument. A historical reflection of these inputs will be offered as closing of the first day.
On the second day several interdisciplinary working groups will be asked to comment in particular on one of the extended abstracts, identifying connections to the overall workshop and formulation research questions and methodological and conceptual challenges.
To take a long-term view on sustainable use of soils under plausible land-use scenarios will need a conceptually new approach, bringing together historical and scientific expertise. The experts will be asked to identify the main methodological and conceptual challenges for such an integrated, long-term view. The will also be asked to identify the most pressing research questions and formulate research strategies to tackle them.
Current efforts in ESF to highlight the functions of land-use for sustainability and regional policy alike will hopefully allow funding of such research, the planned soil thematic strategy within FP 7 of the European Commission will also allow funding based on such priorities. Our joint paper aims at making a strong statement with regard to research priorities and conceptual approaches.
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