Targeting the soil quality and soil health concepts when aiming for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the EU Green Deal

Bonfante, Antonello; Basile, Angelo; Bouma, Johan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-453-2020

Articles | Volume 6, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-453-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-453-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 6, issue 2

Original research article

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05 Oct 2020

Original research article |

| 05 Oct 2020

Targeting the soil quality and soil health concepts when aiming for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the EU Green Deal

Antonello Bonfante, Angelo Basile, and Johan Bouma

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RC1: 'Revisions', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Jun 2020
- AC1: 'Answer to referee 1', Antonello Bonfante, 07 Jul 2020
RC2: 'Review of Soil-2020-28, Targeting the soil quality and soil health concepts when aiming for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the EU Green Deal', Anonymous Referee #2, 29 Jul 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to 2nd reviewer', Antonello Bonfante, 03 Aug 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (04 Aug 2020) by Raúl Zornoza

AR by Antonello Bonfante on behalf of the Authors (04 Aug 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (06 Aug 2020) by Raúl Zornoza

ED: Publish as is (07 Aug 2020) by Jorge Mataix-Solera (Executive editor)

AR by Antonello Bonfante on behalf of the Authors (16 Aug 2020)

Short summary

Soil health is an important term in the international policy arena when considering soil contributions to sustainable development. We propose a measurement method, lacking so far, and explore differences within the term soil quality. The latter describes the inherent properties of soils, while soil health focuses on actual health. The procedure is illustrated for three Italian soil types, also showing the effects of climate change, demonstrating that each soil is significantly different.