 Reply to the comment on “The new assessment of soil loss by water erosion in Europe” by Fiener & AuerswaldPanos Panagos, Pasquale Borrelli, Jean Poesen, Katrin Meusburger, Cristiano Ballabio, Emanuele Lugato, Luca Montanarella and Christine Alewell Environmental Science & Policy, 2016, vol. 57, issue C, 143-150 Abstract: The new assessment of soil loss by water erosion in Europe based on RUSLE2015 (Panagos et al., 2015a) was criticized in a comment by Fiener and Auerswald (2015). The objective of the pan-European assessment was not to challenge any regional- or national-scale modelling but to develop a harmonized assessment aiming to improve our knowledge and understanding of soil erosion by water across the European Union and to accentuate the differences and similarities between different regions and countries beyond national borders and nationally adapted models. The main points of critique of Fiener and Auerswald (2015) were: (i) the ambition of this assessment to become a benchmark, ii) the absence of soil erosion community in this work, (iii) the K-factor and R-factor models (iv) the non-transparent origin of the cover management factor, (v) the lack of any validation process, and (vi) the non-comparability of this new data set to previous published data. We reply as follows: Date: 2016 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:enscpo:v:57:y:2016:i:c:p:143-150 DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2015.12.011 Access Statistics for this article Environmental Science & Policy is currently edited by M. Beniston More articles in Environmental Science & Policy from Elsevier |
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