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Aims and Goals of the IP

The aim of this project will be to carry out the essential goals of the ´European Soil Thematic Strategy´ which are demonstrated with the eight threats of the soil.

It will be necessary to guarantee the functional ability and availability of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems considering qualitative and quantitative aspects. To guarantee effective soil protection it is necessary to avoid an ongoing sealing process of the valuable resource of soil, to safeguard the fertility of the soil through erosion, prohibiting measures and agriculture with an ecological bias, also with the support of methods for an economic use of the soil, involving great responsibility.

As a result of the Intensive program we will achieve a concept for the strategy of a learning region, to obtain the goals of a resource saving regional development.

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Soil indicators and their practical application, bridging between science, politics and decision making by Winfried E.H. Blum (Institute of Soil Research, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria) and György Varallyay (Research Institute for Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Budapest, Hungary)