Abstract
Editorial: Soil Evolution and Sustainability
Highlights
Soils contribute to major ecosystem services by playing a crucial role in provisioning food and fibers, regulating water and geochemical cycles and delivering cultural services
The IPCC report on Climate Change and Land names land and soil degradation through erosion, organic matter decline, contamination, soil sealing, compaction, loss of biodiversity or salinization as key challenges related to land use change (IPCC, 2019)
Adequate soil management appears as a powerful sustainability lever as (i) managed soil recovery may be much faster than natural recovery and as (ii) adequate soil management may result in a simultaneous increase in food security or be helpful to recycle organic wastes or mitigate climate change (Asabere et al.)
Summary
Soils contribute to major ecosystem services (as defined by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005) by playing a crucial role in provisioning food and fibers, regulating water and geochemical cycles and delivering cultural services. Due to this central role of soils in the delivery of ecosystem goods and services, the Soil Security concept was introduced to help Soil Science to be translated into policy guidelines for sustainable development and to be included in the Global Agenda (Koch et al, 2013; Bouma et al, 2019).
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