Soil organic carbon stock as an indicator for monitoring land and soil degradation in relation to United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals

• Published in: Land degradation & development Vol. 30; no. 7; pp. 824 - 838
• Main Authors: Lorenz, Klaus, Lal, Rattan, Ehlers, Knut
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 30.04.2019
• Subjects: Ecosystem services; Environmental monitoring; Food; Hunger; land degradation; Land management; Land use planning; Monitoring; Monitoring systems; Organic carbon; Poverty; Soil degradation; soil organic carbon; Soils; Sustainable development; Sustainable Development Goals

Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in September 2015 aim to end hunger and poverty, to protect the Planet, and to ensure peace and prosperity for all. The soil organic carbon (SOC) stock is a major planetary resource supporting many critically important ecosystem services (ESs) a...