Climate Change and Soil Interactions
Drivers and Pathways for Sustainability
- 2nd Edition - October 21, 2025
- Latest edition
- Editors: Marcin Pietrzykowski, Fabio Carvalho Nunes, Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad
- Language: English
Climate Change and Soil Interactions: Drivers and Pathways for Sustainability, Second Edition delves into the critical relationship between soil systems and climate change, offeri… Read more
Climate Change and Soil Interactions: Drivers and Pathways for Sustainability, Second Edition delves into the critical relationship between soil systems and climate change, offering innovative research on soil carbonization, biodiversity, and vegetation. This comprehensive resource examines strategies for preserving eco-sustainability, focusing on microbial responses and soil health under changing climatic conditions. The book emphasizes the importance of understanding soil systems' physical, chemical, and biological interactions to restore soil vitality amidst climate shifts.
Beyond these foundational topics, the book also discusses the latest advancements in soil improvement practices. It serves as an essential guide for agricultural, ecological, and environmental researchers, providing up-to-date information on the dynamic interplay between climate change and soil. The insights offered are vital for soil scientists and climatologists seeking to navigate and mitigate the impacts of climate change on soil interactions.
Beyond these foundational topics, the book also discusses the latest advancements in soil improvement practices. It serves as an essential guide for agricultural, ecological, and environmental researchers, providing up-to-date information on the dynamic interplay between climate change and soil. The insights offered are vital for soil scientists and climatologists seeking to navigate and mitigate the impacts of climate change on soil interactions.
- Provides updated information on climate change and interactions with the soil
- Includes collaborating scientists from different continents: Asia, North America, Latin America, Africa, Europe, and Oceania
- Covers technical and non-technical information, serving specialists and undergraduate and postgraduate students
Soil Scientists
1. Soil biodiversity conservation for mitigating climate change
2. Potential changes in forest soil carbon stocks under different climate change scenarios
3. Heavy metal mobility in in surface water and soil, climate change and soil interactions
4. Managing organic amendments in agroecosystems to enhance soil carbon storage and mitigate climate change
5. Consequences of land use changes for soil quality and function, with a focus on the EU and Latin America
6. Soil as a complex ecological system for meeting food and nutritional security
7. Climate change induced microbial approach for alleviation of potentially toxic elements in agricultural soils
8. Alleviation of soil salinization and the management of saline soils
9. Soil salinization in the era of climate change
10. Soil salinization risk under climate change and its effects on soil health and crop yield
11. Organic matter decomposition under warming climatic conditions
12. Organic matter decomposition under warming climate conditions
13. Heavy metal mobility in soil under futuristic climatic conditions
14. Hydraulic properties of soil under warming climate
15. Methane and carbon dioxide release from wetland ecosystems
16. The effect of climate change on mycorrhizae
17. Climate-resilient and smart agricultural management tools to cope with climate change-induced soil quality decline
18. Plant–soil interactions in soil organic carbon sequestration as a restoration tool
19. Plant–soil–biochar interactions as a restoration tool
20. Soil enzymes in a changing climate
21. Soil health and climate change
22. Soil carbon dynamics under extreme climate events in agroecosystem
23. Soil health and land use in the era of climate change—primary and secondary impacts on accomplishing related sustainable development goals and green deal
24. Soil carbon sequestration and carbon flux under warming climate
25. Climate change-induced soil biology
26. Biological carbon sequestration for environmental sustainability
27. The role of vegetation in soil erosion control in the era of climate change
28. Soil reclamation for crop productivity in climate change-impacted agroecosystems
29. Climate and soil: a complex relationship and implications of climate change
30. Mimosa tenuiflora, in Brazil’s Juremapreta forest, is able to adapt to climate change, desertification, and land degradation
31. Haloculture in the era of climate change: sustainable utilization of saline soils for green belt and circular bio-economy in the Middle East and North Africa region
32. Impact of climate change on soil microbes
33. Land degradation and soil salinization are related to mental health
34. Impact of climate change on the agriculture in Thailand: halotolerant herbal plants
2. Potential changes in forest soil carbon stocks under different climate change scenarios
3. Heavy metal mobility in in surface water and soil, climate change and soil interactions
4. Managing organic amendments in agroecosystems to enhance soil carbon storage and mitigate climate change
5. Consequences of land use changes for soil quality and function, with a focus on the EU and Latin America
6. Soil as a complex ecological system for meeting food and nutritional security
7. Climate change induced microbial approach for alleviation of potentially toxic elements in agricultural soils
8. Alleviation of soil salinization and the management of saline soils
9. Soil salinization in the era of climate change
10. Soil salinization risk under climate change and its effects on soil health and crop yield
11. Organic matter decomposition under warming climatic conditions
12. Organic matter decomposition under warming climate conditions
13. Heavy metal mobility in soil under futuristic climatic conditions
14. Hydraulic properties of soil under warming climate
15. Methane and carbon dioxide release from wetland ecosystems
16. The effect of climate change on mycorrhizae
17. Climate-resilient and smart agricultural management tools to cope with climate change-induced soil quality decline
18. Plant–soil interactions in soil organic carbon sequestration as a restoration tool
19. Plant–soil–biochar interactions as a restoration tool
20. Soil enzymes in a changing climate
21. Soil health and climate change
22. Soil carbon dynamics under extreme climate events in agroecosystem
23. Soil health and land use in the era of climate change—primary and secondary impacts on accomplishing related sustainable development goals and green deal
24. Soil carbon sequestration and carbon flux under warming climate
25. Climate change-induced soil biology
26. Biological carbon sequestration for environmental sustainability
27. The role of vegetation in soil erosion control in the era of climate change
28. Soil reclamation for crop productivity in climate change-impacted agroecosystems
29. Climate and soil: a complex relationship and implications of climate change
30. Mimosa tenuiflora, in Brazil’s Juremapreta forest, is able to adapt to climate change, desertification, and land degradation
31. Haloculture in the era of climate change: sustainable utilization of saline soils for green belt and circular bio-economy in the Middle East and North Africa region
32. Impact of climate change on soil microbes
33. Land degradation and soil salinization are related to mental health
34. Impact of climate change on the agriculture in Thailand: halotolerant herbal plants
- Edition: 2
- Latest edition
- Published: October 21, 2025
- Language: English
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Marcin Pietrzykowski
Marcin Pietrzykowski is a professor in forestry, forest ecology, and forest land reclamation at the Department of Forest Ecology and Reclamation at the Agricultural University in Krakow, Poland. His principal research focuses on the forestry, forest ecology, and forest land reclamation, especially on mine soil including vegetation relationships, trees species response and to reclaimed mine site conditions, nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration, site classification, and forest management on reclaimed mine sites. In 2013, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Virginia, United States. He was awarded the European Award for Sustainable Land Use - CULTURA Prize 2015 by Alfred Toepfer Foundation. He is a member in the American Society of Mining and Reclamation, Society of Ecological Restoration, and the Polish Society of Soil Science. He is an author and co-author of over 150 scientific papers and has patented several inventions for biostabilazation methods of post-industrial sites.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor in Forestry, Forest Ecology, and Forest Land Reclamation, Agricultural University, Krakow, PolandFN
Fabio Carvalho Nunes
Fabio C Nunes is Professor and Researcher, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Bahia (IF BAIANO). Environmental consultant job in licensing projects, impact assessment and environmental management. Geographer (2002), M.Sc. Geochemistry and Environment (2005), Ph.D. in Coastal and Sedimentary Geology from the Federal University of Bahia (2011). Develops scientific research with soils, soil-plant interactions, environmental impact assessment (EIA), recovery of degraded areas and education.
Environmental Consultant since 2005 and 120 technical reports, Professor in the Faculty of Technology and Sciences - FTC (2006-2011), Professor since August 2011 in the Instituto Federal of Bahia (IF BAIANO), teaching for graduation Geography, Biological Sciences, and Post-graduation in Professional and Technological Education. Published 21 research articles in peer-reviewed Journals and 22 book chapters in Brazilian and international publishers, such as Elsevier and John Wiley & Sons.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Researcher, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Bahia (IF BAIANO). Environmental consultant job in licensing projects, impact assessment and environmental management, BrazilMV
Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad
Dr. Prasad is Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad (India). He has made outstanding contributions to the fields of bioremediation, bioresources, biomass energy sources, bioeconomy, and to the broad field of environmental biotechnology, all of which are his main areas of expertise. Dr. Prasad has served the Government of India’s Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change as a member of various advisory committees on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, pollution control and abatement, environmental information systems and bioremediation of contaminated sites. He is an active visiting scientist for several international universities.
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor and Former Dean, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, IndiaRead Climate Change and Soil Interactions on ScienceDirect