Multi-Purpose Soil Survey: informing environmental management and climate change mitigation
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Darwin Plus
VALUE £160,900
WHERE British Virgin Islands
Summary
The lack of digital soil maps for the BVI is a critical gap in datasets needed for environmental management. This project will inform environmental managers about locations of degraded, erosive, hazardous, polluted or vulnerable soils. Mapping soils and their biodiversity will improve knowledge of geo-ecological processes, providing a baseline dataset from which climate change impacts can be assessed. Local capacity will be strengthened via a soil laboratory hosted by the BVI’s community college, with training in soil survey and analysis.
BVI Town and Country Planning Department, BVI Environmental Health Division, H. Lavity Stoutt Community College, BVI Department of Disaster Management, BVI Agriculture and Fisheries Department, National Parks Trust of the Virgin Islands
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