Soil conservation and sustainable development goals(SDGs) achievement in Europe and central Asia: Which role for the European soil partnership?

International Soil and Water Conservation Research

Elena Havlicek¹  Gulchekhra Khasankhanova²  Pavel Krasilnikov³  Borut Vrščaj⁴  Marc Van Liedekerke⁴  Carmelo Dazzi⁵  Ronald Vargas⁶  Hakkı Emrah Erdogan⁷  Luca Montanarella⁸ 

[1] Corresponding author.;Environmental Protection College, Velenje, Slovenia;Department for Agro-ecology and Natural Resources, Centre for Soil and Environment, Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia;European Commission, Joint Research Centre, I-21027, Ispra, VA, Italy;Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, Soil and Biotechnology Division, 3003, Berne, Switzerland;Lomonosov Moscow State University, Eurasian Centre for Food Security, Moscow, Russian Federation;Republic of Turkey Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Ankara, Turkey;University of Palermo, Italy;

关键词: Sustainable soil management;    Soil partnership;    Soil policy;    Voluntary versus 52 mandatory approaches;    Multilevel coordination;    Communication and cooperation;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Voluntary soil protection measures are not sufficient to achieve sustainable soil management at a global scale. Additionally, binding soil protection legislation at national and international levels has also proved to be insufficient for the effective protection of this almost non-renewable natural resource. The European Soil Partnership (ESP) and its sub-regional partnerships (Eurasian Sub-Regional Soil Partnership, Alpine Soil Partnership) were established in the context of FAO's Global Soil Partnership (GSP) with the mission to facilitate and contribute to the exchange of knowledge and technologies related to soils, to develop dialogue and to raise awareness for the need to establish a binding global agreement for sustainable soil management. The ESP has taken a role of an umbrella network covering countries in Europe and Central Asia. It aims to improve the dialogue in the whole region and has encouraged establishing goals that would promote sustainable soil management, taking into account various national and local approaches and priorities, as well as cultural specificities. The ESP first regional implementation plan for the 2017–2020 period was adopted and implemented along the five GSP pillars of action. Building on the experience of the last four years, this study demonstrates that establishing sub-regional and national partnerships is an additional step in a concrete sustainable soil management implementation process. It also suggests that a complementary approach between legal instruments and voluntary initiatives linked to the development of efficient communication and strong commitment is the key to success.

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