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Soil and Water Bioengineering Applications in Central and South America: A Transferability Analysis

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  • Melanie Maxwald

    (Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agrarie, Alimentari, Ambientali e Forestali (DAGRI), Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50144 Firenze, Italy
    Institute of Soil Bioengineering and Landscape Construction (IBLB), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, 1190 Vienna, Austria)

  • Cesare Crocetti

    (AIPIN (Soil and Water Bioengineering Italian Association), Via del Monte, 2, 34122 Trieste TS, Italy)

  • Roberto Ferrari

    (AIPIN (Soil and Water Bioengineering Italian Association), Via del Monte, 2, 34122 Trieste TS, Italy)

  • Alessandro Petrone

    (Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Forestry Sciences and Technologies, University of Florence, 50144 Firenze, Italy)

  • Hans Peter Rauch

    (Institute of Soil Bioengineering and Landscape Construction (IBLB), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, 1190 Vienna, Austria)

  • Federico Preti

    (Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agrarie, Alimentari, Ambientali e Forestali (DAGRI), Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50144 Firenze, Italy
    AIPIN (Soil and Water Bioengineering Italian Association), Via del Monte, 2, 34122 Trieste TS, Italy)

Abstract

The present work describes a transferability analysis for soil and water bioengineering techniques as an instrument for sustainable erosion control in Central and South America based on an empirical data base from the last decades. In total, 31 case studies in Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil generated a database from an area where soil and water bioengineering techniques are not commonly used. The Transferability Analysis is structured in seven steps: (1) Objectives of the procedure, (2) Impacts of the measure, (3) Identification of up-scaling/down-scaling needs (4) Identification of the main phases and its components, (5) Identification of the level of importance of the components, (6) Assessment of the components in the context of the Take-Up Site and (7) Conclusions. For the assessment of soil and water bioengineering via the Transferability Analysis, in step 4 the following main phases have been identified from the data base: (a) Planning Phase, (b) Construction Phase, (c) Use Phase, as well as (d) End of Life Phase of a construction. Within these categories, 14 components have been defined: (a) know-how of soil and water bioengineering techniques, local climate conditions, botany, hydraulics, pedology; (b) materials, qualified labor, equipment and mechanical instruments, economic resources; (c) monitoring, efficiency, sustainability, maintenance; (d) replicability. The following assessment of the components allowed to determine key barriers, as well as key support factors for the transfer of soil and water bioengineering. As a result, barriers appeared to be the components qualified labor, equipment/mechanical instruments, hydraulics, know-how in soil and water bioengineering and pedology. Neither barriers, nor supporting key factors resulted to be the components local climate conditions, economic resources and efficiency. Supporting key factors for the transfer were materials, monitoring, sustainability, maintenance and replicability. The most important key factor of success was assessed to be botany, as various plant species with important characteristics for soil and water bioengineering are available in Central and South America, able to compensate the constraints through barriers in certain cases.

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  • Melanie Maxwald & Cesare Crocetti & Roberto Ferrari & Alessandro Petrone & Hans Peter Rauch & Federico Preti, 2020. "Soil and Water Bioengineering Applications in Central and South America: A Transferability Analysis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(24), pages 1-31, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:12:y:2020:i:24:p:10505-:d:462623
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