Climate Change and Soil Interactions
Drivers and Pathways for Sustainability
- 2nd Edition - October 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Marcin Pietrzykowski, Fabio Carvalho Nunes, Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 0 2 9 2 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 0 2 9 3 - 7
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
Purchase options
Institutional subscription on ScienceDirect
Request a sales quoteClimate 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. Methane emission from unsustainable crop production in Nepal, system of rice intensification as an option for mitigation
4. Heavy metal mobility in in surface water and soil, climate change and soil interactions
5. Managing organic amendments in agroecosystems to enhance soil carbon storage and mitigate climate change
6. 6 Seed priming: state of the art and new perspectives in the era of climate change
7. Use of lysimeters for monitoring soil water balance parameters and nutrient leaching
8. Consequences of land use changes for soil quality and function, with a focus on the EU and Latin America
9. Soil as a complex ecological system for meeting food and nutritional security
10. Microbial approach for alleviation of potentially toxic elements in agricultural soils
12. Soil salinization in the era of climate change
13. Soil salinity risk in a climate change scenario and its effect on crop yield
14. Organic matter decomposition under warming climatic conditions
15. Soil Organic matter: decomposition under warming climate conditions
16. Heavy metal mobility in soil under futuristic climatic conditions
17. Sustainability Science - below and above the ground as per the UNDP’s Sustainable Development Goals
18. Hydraulic Properties of Soil under Warming Climate
19. Methane and carbon dioxide release from wetland ecosystems
20. The effect of climate changes on mycorrhizae
21. Exploring soil responses to various organic amendments under dry tropical agro-ecosystems Rishikesh
22. Climate resilient and smart agricultural management tools to cope with climate change induced soil quality decline
23. Plant soil interactions in soil organic carbon sequestration as a restoration tool
24. Plant soil interactions as a Restoration tool
25. Soil enzymes in a changing climate
26. Soil Health and Climate Change
27. Soil carbon flux / carbon sequestration under warming climate
28. Climate Change and its impact on soil plant interactions
29. Soil carbon flux / carbon sequestration under warming climate
30. Climate change implications on soil biology
31 Qualitative and quantitative changes in soil properties in the face of climate change
32. Climate change impact on in soil microbes
33. Climate change induced Salination of soils - cultivation of salt tolerant herbs for income generation and sustainable development
34. Impact of Climate Change on Timber Harvesting, Fires and Soil cover in Boreal Forests
35. "The Role of vegetation in soil erosion control in the era of Climate change
36. Climate change and Soil, water interactions: Regional and global perspectives
37. Tragedy in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: Climate Change and Variability and Land Use
2. Potential changes in forest soil carbon stocks under different climate change scenarios
3. Methane emission from unsustainable crop production in Nepal, system of rice intensification as an option for mitigation
4. Heavy metal mobility in in surface water and soil, climate change and soil interactions
5. Managing organic amendments in agroecosystems to enhance soil carbon storage and mitigate climate change
6. 6 Seed priming: state of the art and new perspectives in the era of climate change
7. Use of lysimeters for monitoring soil water balance parameters and nutrient leaching
8. Consequences of land use changes for soil quality and function, with a focus on the EU and Latin America
9. Soil as a complex ecological system for meeting food and nutritional security
10. Microbial approach for alleviation of potentially toxic elements in agricultural soils
12. Soil salinization in the era of climate change
13. Soil salinity risk in a climate change scenario and its effect on crop yield
14. Organic matter decomposition under warming climatic conditions
15. Soil Organic matter: decomposition under warming climate conditions
16. Heavy metal mobility in soil under futuristic climatic conditions
17. Sustainability Science - below and above the ground as per the UNDP’s Sustainable Development Goals
18. Hydraulic Properties of Soil under Warming Climate
19. Methane and carbon dioxide release from wetland ecosystems
20. The effect of climate changes on mycorrhizae
21. Exploring soil responses to various organic amendments under dry tropical agro-ecosystems Rishikesh
22. Climate resilient and smart agricultural management tools to cope with climate change induced soil quality decline
23. Plant soil interactions in soil organic carbon sequestration as a restoration tool
24. Plant soil interactions as a Restoration tool
25. Soil enzymes in a changing climate
26. Soil Health and Climate Change
27. Soil carbon flux / carbon sequestration under warming climate
28. Climate Change and its impact on soil plant interactions
29. Soil carbon flux / carbon sequestration under warming climate
30. Climate change implications on soil biology
31 Qualitative and quantitative changes in soil properties in the face of climate change
32. Climate change impact on in soil microbes
33. Climate change induced Salination of soils - cultivation of salt tolerant herbs for income generation and sustainable development
34. Impact of Climate Change on Timber Harvesting, Fires and Soil cover in Boreal Forests
35. "The Role of vegetation in soil erosion control in the era of Climate change
36. Climate change and Soil, water interactions: Regional and global perspectives
37. Tragedy in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: Climate Change and Variability and Land Use
- Edition: 2
- Published: October 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443402920
- eBook ISBN: 9780443402937
MP
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, India