BOGLAND: Sustainable Management of Peatlands in Ireland (REPORT)
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Peatlands are Ireland?s last great area of wilderness, hovering between land and water, providing unusual habitats for their unique and specialist flora and fauna. Peatlands cover a large part of the land surface in the Republic of Ireland, occurring as raised bogs, blanket bogs and fens, and forming cultural landscape icons in many parts of the country. The BOGLAND project was funded as part of the Sustainable Development Research Programme of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reveal the global significance of this national resource and the dilemmas of peatland management, utilisation and conservation. The management of the Irish peatland resource is a complex task comprising large areas of various habitats exhibiting a range of status (from near-intact to very degraded), involving a mixture of stakeholders and which are affected by many different (sometime contradicting) policies. In order to achieve sustainable management of peatlands, their ecosystem services (biodiversity, carbon storage and sink, archive value, etc.) should underpin policy. This is demonstrated in Section 4, where an economic analysis has revealed that peatlands are public goods that deliver benefits of great economic and social value (primarily in relation to carbon storage, biodiversity, amenity and landscape). However, these are often ignored by the general public and can sometimes work in conflicting directions. While there is a lack of public awareness regarding certain functions of peatlands (e.g. the contribution of peat extraction to increased carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere and related current climate change), people?s attitudes to peatlands are changing. The BOGLAND project focused on assimilating and synthesising the scientific information needed to inform policy about Irish peatlands. It revealed the global significance of this national resource and the dilemmas of peatland management, utilisation and conservation. The project yielded a lot of information on many aspects of peatlands covering the four pillars of sustainability: environmental, social, economic and institutional. Scientific chapters are available in full in the End of Project Report, while the main findings have been compiled in this report. Technical information about the services provided/affected by peatland use and management should now be readily presented to politicians and influential decision makers, with a clear impression of the consequence of alternative decisions and policies. Increasing the awareness (particularly to the wider public) of the current situation and possible future scenarios (backed up by enhanced scientific understanding) is critical to this evidence-based policy development. The protocol delivers an action plan or set of recommendations which should be used to draft a much-needed National Peatland Policy, which should ensure that this natural heritage is not lost in the future, but that it is safeguarded and enhanced during a challenging period of economic transition. In short, any vision of the future of Ireland must include the maintenance and enhancement of one of its last natural resources: peatlands. This protocol aims to succeed in achieving such a vision that serves the needs of the people and preserves our natural heritage.
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Author(s) | Renou-Wilson, F. |
Title Of Website | Secure Archive For Environmental Research Data |
Publication Information | BOGLAND: Sustainable Management of Peatlands in Ireland (REPORT) |
Name of Organisation | Environmental Protection Agency Ireland |
Electronic Address or URL | https://eparesearch.epa.ie/safer/resource?id=a07e0103-46da-102f-8c70-b53a025bc1b8 |
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Date of Access | Last Updated on SAFER: 2025-02-10 |
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SAFER-Data Display URL | https://eparesearch.epa.ie/safer/iso19115/display?isoID=236 |
Resource Keywords | bogs peat peatland sustainability ireland BOGLAND |
EPA/ERTDI/STRIVE Project Code | STRIVE 75 |
EPA/ERTDI/STRIVE Project Theme | Biodiversity |
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Number of Attached Files (Publicly and Openly Available for Download): | 9 |
Project Start Date | Monday 1st January 2007 (01-01-2007) |
Earliest Recorded Date within any attached datasets or digital objects | Monday 1st January 2007 (01-01-2007) |
Most Recent Recorded Date within any attached datasets or digital objects | Saturday 1st October 2011 (01-10-2011) |
Published on SAFER | Thursday 13th October 2011 (13-10-2011) |
Date of Last Edit | Tuesday 10th January 2012 at 15:36:20 (10-01-2012) |
Datasets or Files Updated On | Tuesday 10th January 2012 at 15:36:20 (10-01-2012) |
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BOGLAND looked at bog and peatlands all over the island of Ireland.
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This large-scaled integrated study, informally known as the ?BOGLAND project? was funded as a 4-year ?sustainable development? project by the National Development Plan through the Environmental Research Technological Development and Innovation (ERTDI) research programme. Its overall objective was to develop guidance in the development of strategies for the sustainable future management of peatlands in Ireland. To this effect, this report aims to provide a synthesis of knowledge on this key natural resource, the important functions and roles that peatland ecosystems perform, their various utilisation, and how attitudes and policies affect them. This report presents recommendations on the development and the planning of peatland management that could be used as an information source in drafting laws and regulations and ultimately a peatland policy for Ireland. Finally, but not least, it is hoped that this report can communicate the reality of Irish peatlands to the public and Irish Government as well as academia in a clear and unambiguous fashion. his work built on the considerable body of existing information on vascular plant communities and macro- fauna (birds) of Irish peatlands. Vegetation can be used as a visible indicator of disturbance and is one of the simplest observable characteristics to assess the condition and development of a peatland. Birds, on the other hand, are a conspicuous biodiversity indicator which will respond to management actions. Soil and aquatic invertebrates have also an important role to play in the functioning of peatlands and were studied in detail in this project as little work had been carried out so far. Biodiversity is not limited to the ?visible? diversity present on the bog surface and the significance of the micro-organisms found in Irish peatland biodiversity was also assessed and quantified. |
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Complete Bogland Research Team:
Prof. Thomas Bolger, School of Biology and Environmental Resource, University College Dublin Dr Noel Boylan, School of Architecture, Landscape & Civil Engineering, University College Dublin Dr Craig Bullock, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin Dr Nicholas Clipson, School of Biology and Environmental Resource, University College Dublin Dr Marcus Collier, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin Dr John Connolly, School of Agriculture, Food Science & Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin Prof. Frank Convery, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin Prof. Con Cunnane, Applied Ecology Unit, National University Ireland Galway Dr Louise Deering, School of Biology and Environmental Resource, University College Dublin Dr Catherine Farrell, Bord na Móna Prof. Ted Farrell, School of Biology and Environmental Resource, University College Dublin Dr John Feehan, School of Biology and Environmental Resource, University College Dublin Dr Mike Gormally, Applied Ecology Unit, National University Ireland Galway Dr Edel Hannigan, School of Biology and Environmental Resource, University College Dublin Dr Nick Holden, School of Agriculture, Food Science & Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin Dr Paul Johnston, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Trinity College Dublin Dr Mary Kelly-Quinn, School of Biology and Environmental Resource, University College Dublin Dr Mike Long, School of Architecture, Landscape & Civil Engineering, University College Dublin Mr Gerard Lynch, Teagasc, Athenry. Co. Galway and Johnstown Castle, Co. Wexford Mr Paolo Mengoni, Teagasc, Athenry. Co. Galway and Johnstown Castle, Co. Wexford Dr Richard Moles, Centre for Environmental Research, University of Limerick Prof. Christoph Müller, School of Biology and Environmental Resource, University College Dublin Ms Fionnula Murphy, School of Agriculture, Food Science & Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin Mr Declan Peelo, School of Biology and Environmental Resource, University College Dublin Mr Shane Regan, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Trinity College Dublin Dr Florence Renou-Wilson, School of Biology and Environmental Resource, University College Dublin Dr Rogier Schulte, Teagasc, Athenry. Co. Galway and Johnstown Castle, Co. Wexford Dr. Mark Scott, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin Mr. Michael Walsh, Teagasc, Athenry. Co. Galway and Johnstown Castle, Co. Wexford Prof. Shane Ward, School of Agriculture, Food Science & Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin Dr Briony Williams, Teagasc, Athenry. Co. Galway and Johnstown Castle, Co. Wexford Dr David Wilson, School of Biology and Environmental Resource, University College Dublin Dr Rachel Wisdom, School of Biology and Environmental Resource, University College Dublin |
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