Soil Science Challenges in a New Era: A Transdisciplinary Overview of Relevant Topics

• Published in: Air, soil and water research Vol. 13; no. 1
• Main Authors: Rodrigo-Comino, Jesús, López-Vicente, Manuel, Kumar, Vinod, Rodríguez-Seijo, Andrés, Valkó, Orsolya, Rojas, Claudia, Pourghasemi, Hamid Reza, Salvati, Luca, Bakr, Noura, Vaudour, Emmanuelle, Brevik, Eric C, Radziemska, Maja, Pulido, Manuel, Di Prima, Simone, Dondini, Marta, de Vries, Wim, Santos, Erika S, Mendonça-Santos, Maria de Lourdes, Yu, Yang, Panagos, Panos
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sage UK: London, England SAGE Publications 2020; Sage Publications Ltd; SAGE Publishing
• Subjects: Agricultural sciences; Biogeochemical cycles; Carbon sequestration; Clean technology; Climate change; Computer applications; Concise Review; degradation; Emissions control; Environmental risk; Food contamination; Food production; Greenhouse effect; Greenhouse gases; In situ measurement; Life Sciences; Microorganisms; Microplastics; Nitrous oxide; Plastic pollution; Pollutants; Reduction; Rehabilitation; soil and human health; Soil conservation; Soil contamination; Soil dynamics; Soil erosion; Soil microorganisms; soil modeling; Soil pollution; Soil research; Soil sciences; Soil study; Soil water; Sustainable development; Sustainable food systems; Sustainable production; Water availability; Wildfires; soil modeling; Soil research; rehabilitation; degradation; soil and human health; biogeochemical cycles

Transdisciplinary approaches that provide holistic views are essential to properly understand soil processes and the importance of soil to society and will be crucial in the future to integrate distinct disciplines into soil studies. A myriad of challenges faces soil science at the beginning of the...