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Commissioned reports on soil

Water quality

• Effect of soil structure and field drainage on water quality and flood risk (2016, CREW, pdf 6.03MB)
• Developing simple indicators to assess the role of soils in determining risks to water quality (2014, CREW, pdf 9.51MB)
• Assessing the potential risks to water quality from phosphate leaching (2013, SAC consulting, pdf 4.1MB)
• Soil phosphorus levels in diffuse pollution priority catchments (2011, SAC consulting, pdf 4.0MB)

Application of waste materials to land

• Materials to Land Assessment, Sustainability, Availability and Location (2020, SAC consulting, pdf 3.9MB)
• Development of framework for a Red-Amber-Green assessment on phosphorus application to land (2019, The James Hutton Institute, pdf 15.4MB)
• Assessment of organic contaminants in materials spread on land (2019, WCA, pdf 1.3MB)
• Review of restoration achievements at two Scottish opencast mines (2018, SAC consulting, pdf 14.6MB)
• Guidance on suitable organic material applications for land restoration and improvement (2015, Earthcare Technical and ADAS, pdf 1MB)
• Assessment of risks to soil quality and human health from organic contaminants in materials commonly spread on land in Scotland (2014, WCA, pdf 4.3MB)

Organic soils and peatland

• Determination of organic carbon stocks in blanket peat in different condition - assessment of peat condition (2015, The James Hutton Institute, pdf 3.4MB)
• Applying soil indicators at biomonitoring sites (2015, pdf 1.3MB)
• Testing soil quality indicators (2013, The James Hutton Institute, pdf 1.7MB)
• To establish soil indicators to assess the impact of atmospheric deposition on environmentally sensitive areas (2010, Macaulay Scientific Consulting, pdf 1MB)

Citizen science

Socioeconomic data