No net land take by 2050? New future brief published by Science for Environment Policy

What measures can avoid, reduce or compensate for land take?

Land and soil are limited natural resources essential to all human life. One of the major environmental challenges facing Europe is an increasing demand for development, which threatens these ecosystem services, such as water recycling and purification, carbon storage, and food and fuel — as well as biodiversity.

This Future Brief focuses on how land and soil could be used efficiently to continue to provide these functions and services for generations to come.

Stephan Bartke from INSPIRATION contribute to this publication.

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