Articles | Volume 2, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-135-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-135-2016
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20 Apr 2016
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Facing policy challenges with inter- and transdisciplinary soil research focused on the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Johan Bouma and Luca Montanarella

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The recently accepted UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a major challenge to the research community, including soil science. SDGs require a interdisciplinary research approach that forces every discipline to critically evaluate its core messages. Effective communication with the policy arena requires use of common policy concepts such as policy phases and distinction of drivers, pressures, and responses to change. To accomodate such needs, research practices will have to change.
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