Risk Assessment Methodologies of Soil Threats in Europe

Table of Content
1. Introduction to RAMSOIL ........................................................................................................................ 1
2. Soil erosion ................................................................................................................................................ 5
2.1 Notion of threat, definition and terminology ....................................................................................... 5
2.2 Data collection ..................................................................................................................................... 8
2.3 Data processing .................................................................................................................................... 9
2.4 Data interpretation ............................................................................................................................. 10
2.5 Risk perception .................................................................................................................................. 11
2.6 Options for harmonization ................................................................................................................. 13
3. Subsoil compaction ................................................................................................................................. 17
3.1 Notion of threat, definition and terminology ..................................................................................... 17
3.2 Data collection ................................................................................................................................... 17
3.3 Data processing and data interpretation ............................................................................................. 21
3.4 Risk perception .................................................................................................................................. 25
3.5 Options for harmonization ................................................................................................................. 26
4. Soil salinisation ....................................................................................................................................... 29
4.1 Notion of threat, definitions and terminology .................................................................................. 29
4.2 Data collection ................................................................................................................................... 31
4.3 Data processing .................................................................................................................................. 32
4.4 Data interpretation ............................................................................................................................. 33
4.5 Risk perception .................................................................................................................................. 36
4.6 Options for harmonization ................................................................................................................. 37
5. Soil organic matter decline ...................................................................................................................... 41
5.1 Notion of threat, definition and terminology ..................................................................................... 41
5.2 Data collection ................................................................................................................................... 42
5.3 Data processing .................................................................................................................................. 44
5.4 Data interpretation ............................................................................................................................. 47
5.5 Risk perception .................................................................................................................................. 48
5.6 Options for harmonization ................................................................................................................. 49
6. Landslides ................................................................................................................................................ 51
6.1 Notion of threat, definition and terminology ..................................................................................... 51
6.2 Data collection and data processing ................................................................................................... 52
6.3 Options for harmonisation ................................................................................................................. 53
7. Towards harmonization of risk assessment methodologies of soil threats in Europe ............................. 57
8. Soil Threat Index: an option for harmonized presentation of RAM result .............................................. 63
9. Conclusions ............................................................................................................................................. 67
10 Cited literature ........................................................................................................................................ 69
Annexes ....................................................................................................................................................... 82
Annex 1. Project consortium ................................................................................................................... 82
Annex 2. RAMSOIL report series ........................................................................................................... 83