Soil-derived nature’s contributions to people and their contribution to the UN sustainable development goals
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2021
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This special issue provides an assessment of the contribution of soils to
Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP). Here, we combine this assessment
and previously published relationships between NCP and delivery on the
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to infer contributions of soils
to the SDGs. We show that in addition to contributing positively to the
delivery of all NCP, soils also have a role in underpinning all SDGs.
While highlighting the great potential of soils to contribute to sustainable
development, it is recognized that poorly managed, degraded or polluted
soils may contribute negatively to both NCP and SDGs. The positive contribution,
however, cannot be taken for granted, and soils must be
managed carefully to keep them healthy and capable of playing this vital
role. A priority for soil management must include: (i) for healthy soils in
natural ecosystems, protect them from conversion and degradation; (ii)
for managed soils, manage in a way to protect and enhance soil biodiversity,
health and sustainability and to prevent degradation; and (iii) for degraded
soils, restore to full soil health. We have enough knowledge now to move
forward with the implementation of best management practices to maintain
and improve soil health. This analysis shows that this is not just desirable, it is essential if we are to meet the SDG targets
by 2030 and achieve sustainable development more
broadly in the decades to come.
This article is part of the theme issue ‘The role of soils
in delivering Nature’s Contributions to People’.
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SMITH, Pete et al. Soil-derived nature’s contributions to people and their contribution to the UN sustainable development goals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: biological sciences, London, v. 376, n. 1834, e20200185, 2021.
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0185 . Disponível em: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2020.0185. Acesso em: 13 jan. 2023.