Emanuele Lugato

Biographic Data

ID6313982
NAMEEmanuele Lugato
GIVEN NAMESEmanuele
FAMILY NAMELugato
SIGNATURELUGATO E
AFFILIATIONSJoint Research Centre
ORCID0000-0002-8947-352X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS55
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Synergistic effects of multiple “good agricultural practices” for promoting organic carbon in soils

    Open AccessRaül López i Losada, Katarina Hedlund et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2025

    Loss of soil organic carbon (SOC) from farmland is a key threat to the capacity of soils to provide ecosystem services and exacerbates climate change. In alignment with a published protocol, we conducted a review and meta-analysis of time series of SOC measurements in long-term agricultural experiments to study absolute SOC changes under different agricultural management regimes. Our results show that SOC in the upper 30 cm layer generally declin…

  • Healthy soils as a booster to EU competitiveness

    Open AccessPanos Panagos, Alberto Orgiazzi et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2025References: 70

    The European Union's strategic agenda for 2024–2029 prioritizes a prosperous and competitive Europe, with soil health potentially playing a role in achieving this goal. However, the current state of European soils is of concern, with over 60 % of soils not in healthy condition, as reported by the European Union’s Soil Mission Board and the EU Soil Observatory. This results not only in environmental issues, but also economic ones, as the costs of …

  • Policy implications of multiple concurrent soil erosion processes in European farmland

    Open AccessPasquale Borrelli, Panos Panagos et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2022References: 3

  • Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosion by water (2015-2070)

    Open AccessPasquale Borrelli, David A Robinson et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2020

    Significance We use the latest projections of climate and land use change to assess potential global soil erosion rates by water to address policy questions; working toward the goals of the United Nations working groups under the Inter-Governmental Technical Panel on Soils of the Global Soil Partnership. This effort will enable policy makers to explore erosion extent, identify possible hotspots, and work with stakeholders to mitigate impacts. In …

  • Maximising climate mitigation potential by carbon and radiative agricultural land management with cover crops

    Open AccessEmanuele Lugato, Alessandro Cescatti et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    To reach the Paris climate targets, the mitigation capacity needs to be maximized across all components of the Earth system, especially land. Mitigation actions through land management, such as cover crops in agricultural soils, are often evaluated in terms of their carbon sequestration potential, while radiative forcing related to surface albedo changes is often ignored. The aim of this study was to assess the mitigation potential of cover crops…

  • A linkage between the biophysical and the economic

    Open AccessMartina Sartori, George Philippidis et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2019Cited by: 2References: 34

    Employing a linkage between a biophysical and an economic model, this study estimates the economic impact of soil erosion by water on the world economy. The global biophysical model estimates soil erosion rates, which are converted into land productivity losses and subsequently inserted into a global market simulation model. The headline result is that soil erosion by water is estimated to incur a global annual cost of eight billion US dollars to…

  • An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion

    Open AccessPasquale Borrelli, David A Robinson et al.ARTICLENature Communications2017

    Human activity and related land use change are the primary cause of accelerated soil erosion, which has substantial implications for nutrient and carbon cycling, land productivity and in turn, worldwide socio-economic conditions. Here we present an unprecedentedly high resolution (250 × 250 m) global potential soil erosion model, using a combination of remote sensing, GIS modelling and census data. We challenge the previous annual soil erosion re…

  • Reply to the comment on “The new assessment of soil loss by water erosion in Europe” by Fiener & Auerswald

    Open AccessPanos Panagos, Pasquale Borrelli et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2016References: 1

    The new assessment of soil loss by water erosion in Europe based on RUSLE2015 (Panagos et al., 2015a) was criticized in a comment by Fiener and Auerswald (2015). The objective of the pan-European assessment was not to challenge any regional- or national-scale modelling but to develop a harmonized assessment aiming to improve our knowledge and understanding of soil erosion by water across the\nEuropean Union and to accentuate the differences and s…

  • Effect of Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions on erosion and soil organic carbon balance

    Open AccessPasquale Borrelli, K Paustian et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2016Cited by: 6References: 54

    Since, the Common Agricultural Policies (CAP) reform in 2003, many efforts have been made at the European level to promote a more environmentally friendly agriculture. In order to oblige farmers to manage their land sustainably, the GAEC (Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions) were introduced as part of the Cross Compliance mechanism. Among the standards indicated, the protection of soils against erosion and the maintenance of soil organ…

  • A grassland strategy for farming systems in Europe to mitigate GHG emissions—An integrated spatially differentiated modelling approach

    Open AccessAlexander Gocht, Maria Espinosa et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2016References: 29

  • The new assessment of soil loss by water erosion in Europe

    Open AccessPanos Panagos, Pasquale Borrelli et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2015Cited by: 32

    Soil erosion by water is one of the major threats to soils in the European Union, with a negative impact on ecosystem services, crop production, drinking water and carbon stocks. The European Commission's Soil Thematic Strategy has identified soil erosion as a relevant issue for the European Union, and has proposed an approach to monitor soil erosion. This paper presents the application of a modified version of the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equ…

  • Estimating the soil erosion cover-management factor at the European scale

    Open AccessPanos Panagos, Pasquale Borrelli et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2015Cited by: 15References: 49

    Land use and management influence the magnitude of soil loss. Among the different soil erosion risk factors, the cover-management factor (C-factor) is the one that policy makers and farmers can most readily influence in order to help reduce soil loss rates. The present study proposes a methodology for estimating the C-factor in the European Union (EU), using pan-European datasets (such as CORINE Land Cover), biophysical attributes derived from re…

  • Surface albedo following biochar application in durum wheat

    Open AccessLorenzo Genesio, F Miglietta et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2012

    The agronomic use of charcoal from biomass pyrolysis (biochar) represents an interesting \noption for increasing soil fertility and sequestering atmospheric CO2. However, before moving toward large-scale biochar applications, additional research must evaluate all possible land–atmosphere feedbacks. Despite the increasing number of studies investigating the effect of biochar on soil physical, chemical and biological properties, only a few have bee…