Two recommended research approaches
When designing new research for sustainable land and water management it
is important to take the whole erosion process into account, not only to
focus on the detachment, but also to incorporated research on the
transfer paths and the deposition phase of the erosion process (Bryan,
2000; Cebecauer & Hofierka, 2008; Rodrigo-Comino et al., 2018). Eroded
sediment many times ends up on unwanted places, like reservoirs, and
damage the natural resources and human investments (Clark, 1985;
Rodrigo-Comino et al., 2018; Terranova et al., 2009). Successful
approaches that are needed to come to sustainability from the point of
view of erosion, all three elements of the process need to be tackled.
Prevent detachment, prohibit transport, create deposition potential in
places that are not harmful, or even beneficial. Two approaches lie at
the basis of this approach: Nature-based solutions and connectivity
based approaches.