Short project description

One of the solutions to counteract the current climate crises is to capture more carbon in soils. For exam- ple natural forest stores more carbon/ha in the soil as compared to agriculture. In this project, we will dive into carbon storage of various land-use and soil types - e.g. agriculture, forest, grassland, and wet- lands and the effect of converting from on land-use to another. If done intelligent, these specific land-use changes are likely to deliver positive side-effects in the surrounding landscape by boosting local biodi- versity and decreasing nitrogen leaching, where the latter is one of the main pollutants in costal environ- ments. In this project the student will calculate scenarios for future land-use based on climate-account- ing at landscape scale, based on how much land is converted and where it should be converted to gain highest effect. The data used can be existing geographical land-use data (GIS) assisted by IPCC conver- sion factors and the Toolkit for Ecosystem Service Site-specific Assessment (TESSA).