Monitoring soil for sustainable development and land degradation neutrality

• Published in: Environmental monitoring and assessment Vol. 190; no. 2; pp. 57 - 4
• Main Authors: Tóth, Gergely, Hermann, Tamás, da Silva, Manuela Ravina, Montanarella, Luca
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.02.2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Compartments; Conservation of Natural Resources - economics; Conservation of Natural Resources - methods; Earth and Environmental Science; Ecology; Ecotoxicology; Environment; Environmental Management; Environmental Monitoring; Environmental science; Indicators; Land degradation; Monitoring; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Socioeconomic Factors; Soil; Soil - chemistry; Soils; Sustainability; Sustainable development; Sustainable Development Goals; United Nations; Productivity; Nutrient cycling; SDGs; Land degradation; Monitoring
• ISSN: 0167-6369; 1573-2959
• DOI: 10.1007/s10661-017-6415-3

The adoption of the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) listed in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by the United Nations urged the scientific community to generate information for planning and monitoring socioeconomic development and the underlying environmental compartments. SDGs 2, 3, 6, 11, 13, 14, and 15 have targets which commend direct consideration of soil resources. There are five groups of SDGs and assigned SDG indicators where soil plays a central role. Frameworks of soil-related sustainable development goals and related indicators which can be monitored in current monitoring schemes are proposed.