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The Alpine Soil Partnership
Thomas Peham, Borut Vrščaj, Maria LegnerLinks4Soils project
Links4Soils (2016-2020)
Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Slovenia
AlpSPStarting Point & Driving Forces
Soil Conservation protocol of the Alpine Convention
Article 5
International cooperation
1. The Contracting Parties shall encourage stronger international cooperation among the competent institutions, especially with regard to the drawing up of soil registers, soil monitoring, the designation and monitoring of protected and impaired areas and danger zones, the provision and harmonisation of databases, the coordination of Alpine-specific soil conservation research, and mutual reporting.
2. The Contracting Parties undertake to remove obstacles to international cooperation between territorial authorities in the Alpine region, and to encourage solutions to shared problems at the most suitable level.
AlpSPStarting Point & Driving Forces
Study: Quo vadis soil protection in the alps, 2016
“The study’s key findings can be summarisedin the following thematic recommendations:
► development of a frequent and regular exchange between soil conservation experts of the regions and countries as well as
► information and awareness raising for the wider public and important stakeholder groups, such as agriculture, forestry or themunicipal level.
► …”
AlpSPStarting Point & Driving Forces
Workshop on the soil conservation protocol, Bad Reichenhall, 2016
Recommendations according to the World- Café results:
Networking of soil conservation actors in the Alpine region as a viable working group: Establishment of an Alpine-wide soil protection working panel based on national to local actors and soil protection experts (e.g. from science) for improved knowledge transfer.
AlpSPStarting Point & Driving Forces
Establishment of the Global Soil Partnership (2012) and theEuropean Soil Partnership (2014) by the FAO
©FAO
Pillar 1 - Soil management
Pillar 2 - Awareness raising
Pillar 3 – Research
Pillar 4 - Information and data
Pillar 5 – Harmonization©FAO
Links4Soils project key aims
• Build up of a soil information and decision platform
• Elaboration of concrete recommendations for soil management in the Alpine region (case studies)
Forest management, spatial planning, joining mountain agriculture & tourism & water quality, natural hazards prevention
• Soil awareness raising and capacity building
• Establishment of an Alpine Soil Partnership (AlpSP) and improvement of the implementation of the soil conservation protocol of the Alpine Convention
Objectives of the AlpSP
WHAT
1. Practice-oriented knowledge exchange on sustainable soil management, success stories and good practice examples in the Alps
2. Coordination network for the joint implementation of sustainable soil management and soil protection activities
3. Strengthen the implementation of the Soil Conservation Protocol of the Alpine Convention
YET ANOTHER NETWORK?
Cooperate with existing soil and Alpine networks European Soil Partnership (ESP), European Land and Soil Alliance (ELSA), CIPRA, Alpine Convention,…
Foundation of the AlpSP
WHEN
28th March 2018 - presentation of the memorandum of understanding and collection of first declarations of accession
WHY
Soils in the Alpine space: face specific challenges, varying, scarce
Multilevel, interdisciplinary and transnational partnership
WHO
Individuals and organisations
politicians and administrators, scientists and educators, practitioners, NGOs
HOW
AlpSP may act with the Alpine Soil Partners as link between the GSP (ESP), the soil science societies, the administration, the practitioners, …
… and gains its power from knowledge transfer and exchange on the regional level, supported by the international partnership.
05.2017
Ljubljana meeting
11.2017
Innsbruck meeting
03.2018
Grenoble meeting
11.2018
Munich meeting
05.2019
Aosta valley meeting
AlpSP & Links4Soils Milestones & Outlook
14.-16.10.2019Alpine Soil Forum Innsbruck
Objectives & framework AlpSP
Memorandum of Understanding
First Action Programme AlpSP
Regional meetings
Case Study Results & Best
Practices
Further implementation
of AlpSP
Current count:73 Alpine Soil PartnersAT | DE | FR | IT | SI
Achievements
Drafting AlpSP objectives and framework
Memorandum of Understanding
Promotion of the AlpSP and ESP on local & regional level (IT, FR, SI, AT, DE)
Enlarging the AlpSP membership
Questionnaire on the implementation of the soil protocol of the Alpine Convention
Participation of the AlpSP members in int. organizations (EUSALP AG6, Soil Protection Working Group of the Alpine Convention, …)
Become Alpine Soil Partner
HOW
1. Fill out the declaration of accession, directly at the info desk or send the scan to [email protected]
OR
1. Fill out the online-form onhttps://alpinesoils.eu/soil-partnership/follow-asp/
2. Use and benefit from the information provided on the Alpine Soils Platform and get active for sustainable soil management
More information:
www.alpine-space.eu/links4soils
Thank you for
your attention!