Soil Science Responding to Global Issues: Climate Change, Food Security, Agricultural Sustainability, and Land Stewardship
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 July 2022) | Viewed by 2402
Special Issue Editors
Interests: soil science; heavy metal toxicity; arsenic uptake in rice
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: animal science; constructed wetlands
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soil Science is a discipline that examines soil as natural resource having spatially diverse physical, chemical, and biological properties that are viewed in relation to the use and management of land. As such, soil science is linked to a diverse array of disciplines spanning across the natural and physical sciences, the social sciences, and newly emerging technologies. Global issues involving climate change, food security, agricultural sustainability and land stewardship are continuously redefining soil science and its linkage to a diverse set of interactive disciplines. New research paradigms are providing promising and evolving perspectives that will shape human social development, the management of increasingly fragile resources, the sustainable production of food and fiber, the maintenance of soil health, the provision of ecological services, while addressing problems of anthropogenic degradation of the water-soil continuum. This special issue seeks compelling manuscripts that reflect the interdisciplinary connections between soil science and other disciplines. We are particularly interested in soil science topics that integrate research across emerging paradigms, such as soil research that investigates climate change or sustainability that also explores the ramifications to farm profitability or food security.
Dr. Michael Aide
Dr. Samantha Siemers
Dr. Susan Murray
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- climate change
- soil erosion
- sodicity and salinity
- constructed wetlands
- soil acidity
- production agriculture
- natural ecosystems
- irrigation and drainage
- heavy metals and metalloids
- soil interpretations
