Module - Landscape Carbon Stock Assessment
Landscape Carbon Stock Assessment, in partnership with Wren ECOnsulting, builds your understanding of the landscape carbon store. Exploring the context, field sampling, laboratory analysis and evaluation of soil carbon data, this module enables you to undertake your own carbon stock assessment, or to better understand work carried out by a third party.
You will work in small teams to design, implement and report a carbon stock assessment in both carbon-rich and agricultural soils, and consider opportunities for enhanced landscape management or access to carbon finance schemes. Small group taught sessions will take place online, at our Ambleside campus and at field locations nearby.
The course has an applied focus and is designed for land agents, land managers and advisors. It can be studied separately or as part of our set of Upland Environmental Land Management short courses.
Course dates to be confirmed for 2025-6.
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Course Overview
Understanding carbon stock in a landscape is key to informing sustainable land management and provides fundamental baseline data needed to access carbon finance schemes. This module aims to demystify the language of landscape carbon storage and explores the benefits and challenges of quantifying and optimising landscape carbon stocks.
We will develop your understanding of where carbon is stored within the landscape, train you in field sampling and laboratory analysis to quantify landscape carbon, and to evaluate the landscape level drivers of change to that carbon store.
By the end of the module you will be able to undertake your own landscape carbon stock assessment, and to understand the opportunities and limits of carbon stock assessment undertaken by third parties (e.g. environmental consultants, land agents). By undertaking a baseline carbon stock assessment of a location with both carbon rich and agricultural soils, you will be introduced to the opportunities to use this evidence to optimise land management and to navigate the complex world of voluntary and regulated carbon finance markets.
The course includes farm visit, workshops and seminars at our Ambleside campus, plus online evening lectures. This part-time course will often be possible to complete whilst working.
On this course you will...
- Complete a realistic carbon stock assessment for a diverse landscape containing a range of different land uses.
- Understand carbon and the carbon cycle, how carbon is stored within the landscape and why this matters, particularly in the context of Environmental Land Management schemes.
- Appreciate the basis of carbon stock assessments, in terms of their effectiveness and their limitations.
- Understand how an evaluation of carbon stock can be used to inform land management decisions, including accessing voluntary or regulated carbon finance schemes.
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Ambleside Campus
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