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<div>Journal of Rural Studies Volume 48, December
2016, Pages 115-128<br>
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<div>Communicating soil carbon science to farmers: Incorporating
credibility, salience and legitimacy</div>
<div>Julie Ingram, Jane Mills, Camilla Dibari et al</div>
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Abstract</div>
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>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0743016716304922</div
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<font face="Verdana" size="-1">A key narrative within climate change
science is that conserving and improving soil carbon through
agricultural practices can contribute to agricultural productivity and
is a promising option for mitigating carbon loss through
sequestration. This paper examines the potential disconnect between
science and practice in the context of communicating information about
soil carbon management. It focuses on the information producing
process and on stakeholder (adviser, farmer representative, policy
maker etc) assessment of the attributes credibility, salience and
legitimacy. In doing this it draws on results from consultations with
stakeholders in the SmartSOIL project which aimed to provide decision
support guidelines about practices that optimise carbon mitigation and
crop productivity. An iterative methodology, used to engage
stakeholders in developing, testing and validating a range of decision
support guidelines in six case study regions across Europe, is
described. This process enhanced legitimacy and revealed the
importance, and the different dimensions, of stakeholder views on
credibility and salience. The results also highlight the complexities
and contested nature of managing soil carbon. Some insights are gained
into how to achieve more effective communication about soil carbon
management, including the need to provide opportunities in projects
and research programmes for dialogue to engender better understanding
between science and practice.</font></div>
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1990s a number of long-running trends were apparently cresting Š.
Tommy Mullaney, eleven, of Crownsville, Maryland, returned home from
camp in the summer of 1990 to find his name inscribed on a MasterCard
complete with a $5,000 credit line. ' I jumped up and down and
said Wow - the hologram was cool,' Tommy told the Washington
Post. 'But it sure made me wonder who was running that bank'."<br>
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James Grant. Pp. 436-437, "Afterword: End of the Line,"<i> Money
of the Mind: Borrowing and Lending in America from the Civil War to
Micheal Milken.</i></font></div>
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</font><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">"Full of recent
references and statistics, Harvesting the Biosphere adds to the
growing chorus of warnings about the current trajectory of human
activity on a finite planet, of which climate change is only one
dimension.</font></div>
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"One can quibble with some assumptions or tweak Smil's calculations,
but the bottom line will not change, only the time it may take
humanity to reach a crisis point."</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
Stephen Running. "Approaching the Limits" Science 15 March
2013.<br>
Book review. Harvesting the Biosphere: What we have taken from Nature.
by Vaclav Smil . MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2012. 315 pp. $29,
£19.95. ISBN 9780262018562</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-2" color="#000000">"In the early
1990s a number of long-running trends were apparently cresting Š.
Tommy Mullaney, eleven, of Crownsville, Maryland, returned home from
camp in the summer of 1990 to find his name inscribed on a MasterCard
complete with a $5,000 credit line. ' I jumped up and down and
said Wow - the hologram was cool,' Tommy told the Washington
Post. 'But it sure made me wonder who was running that bank'."<br>
<br>
James Grant. Pp. 436-437, "Afterword: End of the Line,"<i> Money
of the Mind: Borrowing and Lending in America from the Civil War to
Micheal Milken.</i></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">"Full of recent
references and statistics, Harvesting the Biosphere adds to the
growing chorus of warnings about the current trajectory of human
activity on a finite planet, of which climate change is only one
dimension.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
"One can quibble with some assumptions or tweak Smil's calculations,
but the bottom line will not change, only the time it may take
humanity to reach a crisis point."</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
Stephen Running. "Approaching the Limits" Science 15 March
2013.<br>
Book review. Harvesting the Biosphere: What we have taken from Nature.
by Vaclav Smil . MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2012. 315 pp. $29,
£19.95. ISBN 9780262018562</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-2" color="#000000">"In the early
1990s a number of long-running trends were apparently cresting Š.
Tommy Mullaney, eleven, of Crownsville, Maryland, returned home from
camp in the summer of 1990 to find his name inscribed on a MasterCard
complete with a $5,000 credit line. ' I jumped up and down and
said Wow - the hologram was cool,' Tommy told the Washington
Post. 'But it sure made me wonder who was running that bank'."<br>
<br>
James Grant. Pp. 436-437, "Afterword: End of the Line,"<i> Money
of the Mind: Borrowing and Lending in America from the Civil War to
Micheal Milken.</i></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
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color="#000000"
>=-------------------------------------------------------------===---<span
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>--------------------------------------------------------------=</font
><font face="Geneva" size="-2" color="#000000"><br>
</font><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">"Full of recent
references and statistics, Harvesting the Biosphere adds to the
growing chorus of warnings about the current trajectory of human
activity on a finite planet, of which climate change is only one
dimension.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
"One can quibble with some assumptions or tweak Smil's calculations,
but the bottom line will not change, only the time it may take
humanity to reach a crisis point."</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
Stephen Running. "Approaching the Limits" Science 15 March
2013.<br>
Book review. Harvesting the Biosphere: What we have taken from Nature.
by Vaclav Smil . MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2012. 315 pp. $29,
£19.95. ISBN 9780262018562</font></div>
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