| Expert Name | Dr. Luca Montanarella |
| Title | Action Leader Soil |
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| City | Ispra |
| Country | Italian |
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| Email | luca.montanarella(at)jrc.ec.europa.eu |
| Work Experience | Working since 1992 as scientific officer in the European Commission. Leading the Soil Data and Information Systems (SOIL Action) activities of the Joint Research Centre in support to the EU Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection and numerous other soil related policies, like the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the UNCCD, UNFCCC, CBD, FAO, etc…
Responsible of the European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC), the European Soil Information System (EUSIS) and the European Soil Bureau Network (ESBN). |
| Qualifications | Agricultural sciences 1984 |
| Number of Publications | 200 |
| Awards | 1. Doctor honoris causa Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
2. Honorary Fellow ISRIC
3. Excellence award of the JRC |
| Other Activities | 1. Representing the European Community within the CST of UNCCD for more then 10 years
2. Scientific societies: member of: European society of soil conservation (ESSC); international union of soil science (IUSS), and member of IUSS working group on universal soil classification; Italian society of soil science (SISS).
3. FAO consultant in the frame of the global soil partnership.
4. External Auditor of large agricultural research organizations (e.g. INRA, France) and evaluator of numerous large EU and National funded projects.
5. Reviewer for international journals. |
| Publications | Montanarella L, Carre` F, Sanchez P, Ahamed S, Hartemink A, Hempel J, Huising J, Lagacherie P, Mcbratney A, Mckenzie, N, Mendonza-Santos M, Minasny B, Okoth P, Palm C, Sachs J, Shepherd K, Vagen T, Vanlauwe B, Walsh M, Winowiecki L, Zhang G. Digital Soil Map of the World. SCIENCE 325 (5941); 2009. p. 680-681. JRC53742
Montanarella L. Trends in Land Degradation in Europe. In: Sivakumar MVK, Ndiang`ui N, editors. Climate and Land Degradation. Berlin (German): Springer; 2007. p. 81-102. JRC37815.
Montanarella L, Cowie A, Schneider U. Potential Synergies Between Existing Multilateral Environmental Agreements in the Implementation of Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry Activities. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE and POLICY 10; 2007. p. 335-352. JRC37687
Schlamadinger B, Bird N, Johns D, Brown S, Canadell J, Ciccarese L, Dutschke M, Fiedler J, Fischlin A, Fearnside P, Forner C, Freibauer A, Frumhoff P, Hoehne N, Kirschbaum M, Labat A, Marland G, Michaelowa A, Montanarella L, Moutinho P, Murdiyarso D, Pena N, Pingoud K, Rakonczay Z, Rametsteiner E, Rock J, Sanz M, Schneider U, Shvidenko A, Skutsch M, Smith P, Somogyi Z, Trines E, Ward M, Yamagata Y. A Synopsis of Land Use, Land-use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) under the Kyoto Protocol and Marrakech Accords. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE and POLICY 10 (1); 2007. p. 271-282. JRC41698
A. Jones, L. Montanarella, R.J.A. Jones (eds.), “Soil Atlas of Europe”, European Soil Bureau Network, European Commission, 2005, 128 pp, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, L-2995 Luxembourg. |
| Discipline | Soil Science |
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