Dear colleagues
I have read with great interest the Guidelines for Sustainable Soil Management. I think that the document is mainly based on agricultural soils and the problems derived from agricultural practices. In my opinion, a draft about “Sustainable Soil Management” should include also other impacts which should cause problems to the soils, such as erosion, salinization, contamination, etc, which are just mentioned or briefly described. In addition, the information about key technical elements to achieve sustainable soil management are few, already known, and again referred mainly to agricultural soils.
About the variety of ecosystem services provided by the soils, they are too general, barely incisive, and are quite distant from the classical definition.
Finally, the guidelines if appropriately improved should be very useful for soil scientists experts in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Kind Regards,
Grazia Masciandaro
Dr. Grazia Masciandaro
CNR-ISE
Pisa (Italy)
Grazia Masciandaro