Advances in Earth Science ›› 2016, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (10): 1012-1020. doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2016.10.1012

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Societal Responsibility and Development Trends of Global Soil Studies and the Provisions for China: Lessons from the Status of the 《World’s Soil Resources Report》

Xuhui Zhang( ), Qianqian Shao, Yuanjun Ding, Kun Cheng, Rongjun Bian, Xiaoyu Liu, Jufeng Zheng, Lianqing Li, Genxing Pan *( )   

  1. Institute of Resources, Ecosystem and Environment for Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
  • Received:2016-07-01 Revised:2016-09-12 Online:2016-10-20 Published:2016-10-20
  • Contact: Genxing Pan E-mail:xuhuizhang@njau.edu.cn;pangenxing@aliyun.com
  • About author:

    First author:Zhang Xuhui (1976-), male, Luquan City, Hebei Province, Associate Professor. Research areas include soil science and education.E-mail:xuhuizhang@njau.edu.cn

    *Corresponding author:Pan Genxing (1958-), male, Pujiang City, Zhejiang Province, Professor. Research areas include soil science and education.E-mail:pangenxing@aliyun.com

  • Supported by:
    Project supported by Biochar for Sustainable Soils Project (GEF 2015)(No.B4SS)

Xuhui Zhang, Qianqian Shao, Yuanjun Ding, Kun Cheng, Rongjun Bian, Xiaoyu Liu, Jufeng Zheng, Lianqing Li, Genxing Pan. Societal Responsibility and Development Trends of Global Soil Studies and the Provisions for China: Lessons from the Status of the 《World’s Soil Resources Report》[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2016, 31(10): 1012-1020.

2015 is the International Year of Soil (IYS) adopted by the 378th Congress of the United Nations. The Status of the World’s Soil Resources was released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, which was the policy report about the status of the world soil resources for the first time. The universal values of the global community were strengthened by the challenges for the global society from the risk and safety of the change of soil quality, functions, services and soil health. One third of the world soil resources were suffering serious degradation, which could affect the food security in the future, regional development and local conflicts in the report. The major task of the global monitoring, regulation and management of the world soil resources and the social responsibility of supporting the sustainable soil management by education, research and technology development were highlighted. The social responsibility and global development trends of soil science and management strategies were discussed by the keywords, the distribution of contributing authors and the citation of the references, as well as the main contents of the report. The keywords distribution of the report showed that the focus of the soil research included the change of soil quality, processes, functions and services induced by the natural driving forces, human’s activity and soil degradation, as well as the hotspots covered soil carbon/nitrogen-water-biological pool and distribution related with the biogeochemistry, global climate change and ecosystem functions and human health. The number and structure of the cited papers showed that the integration research based on the mega-data analysis were the prominent development trend of the soil science. The geographic distribution of all the contributing authors showed that dominant discourse of the global soil science were grasped by the developed countries including Europe and the United States, China had just limited effects on the global soil science. It is urgent to promote China’s soil science research and the services for global society.

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