Peat Hub Ireland
Peat-Hub-Ireland is a one-year project funded by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency to collate evidence to encourage research, civic societies and policy makers to move towards an evidence-based and evidence-informed position with regard to the future sustainable management and better planning around this major national resource.
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Peat-Hub-Ireland Glossary
A 'living' glossary of terms used across Ireland around peatlands.
With consultations from all stakeholders
Multi-disciplinary peatland platform
(1) drawing on specialist (inter and intra-disciplinary) expertise, identifying trends, risks, opportunities and knowledge gaps, and (2) connecting the resultant knowledge into an integrated form that supports decision-making at policy and community level
Learn moreWhy a Peat-Hub-Ireland?
Since the turn of the 21st century, there has been growing global interest in the role of peatlands in carbon and water cycles with more inter-disciplinary research applying the Ecosystem Services framework. This has been guided by the recognition that peatlands form important natural capital and by the growing apprehension that peatland degradation will lead to significant negative impacts to the global climate change. The same trends have also been experienced in Ireland with increasing research in peatland science, applied work on degraded systems via European and national funding (EU LIFE projects) and also participatory public interests (as seen by the popularity of peatland community groups). A holistic synthesis of all this work is required.
Peatland projects spotlight
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