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Peatland Impact Assessment: Effects of Management Actions on Achieving Environmental Aims 2026

Abstract

Peatlands are important for supporting a range of ecosystem services, including carbon storage, flood prevention, filtration of water, food production as grazing land, and soil health. They are also crucial for supporting rare and specialised biodiversity. However, many peatlands in Northern Ireland are in poor condition, due to a history of impacts such as turf cutting, drainage, overgrazing and pollution. Understanding the impacts that different management actions and restoration interventions will have on these ecosystem services is therefore crucial to inform peatland-relevant policies and actions, such as the Peatland Strategy, the Environmental Farming Scheme and the Farming with Nature scheme (Northern Ireland’s agri-environment schemes).

The aim of this report is to review the literature on the impacts of peatland management actions on achieving a range of environmental aims.

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Resource type Publication

Topic category Environment

Reference date 2026·06·01

Citation
Harris, M. & Roberts, B. (2026) Peatland Impact Assessment and Logic Chain: Effects of Management Actions on Ecosystem Services. JNCC Report 828. JNCC, Peterborough, ISSN 0963-8091.

Lineage
This report was produced by JNCC for DAERA through the Balancing Land Use Needs in Northern Ireland project.

Responsible organisation
Communications, JNCC publisher

Limitations on public access No limitations

Use constraints Available under the Open Government Licence 3.0

Metadata date 2026·06·19

Metadata point of contact
Communications, JNCC

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