Adaptation of Soil Ecosystems: An Inventory of SDG Linkages to Achieve the Goals of the UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration

¹ Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University), Department of Integrated International Ecological Problems and Wildlife Management, 119454, 76 Vernadskogo prospect, Moscow, Russia
² Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, Department of soil science, Geology and landscape studies, 127550, 49 Timiryazevskaya st., Moscow, Russia

^* Corresponding author: natamgimo@gmail.com

Abstract

The aim of the work is to carry out a comparative analysis and links between the loads on soil ecosystems and the social, economic and environmental needs and capacities of the state. The current vectors of the ecological discourse of assessment of degradation and the current state of soil ecosystems and the possible limits of their adaptation to the growing impacts were considered. The system of links between the ecological component and socio-economic needs of development of the regions of the state was created. The study was conducted on the basis of modern data of inventory, analysis and synthesis of available information on the state of soil ecosystems, limiting factors of their use and prospects for sustainable land use. The work was carried out in the following areas: adaptation to soil degradation; impact of land degradation on the economy; current trends in agriculture; biological and economic productivity of soil ecosystems; creation of ESG approach to state planning of soil resources exploitation. Sustainable land management was considered as a science-based procedure to meet food security and the needs of a growing global population while maintaining high quality ecosystems. The approach used allowed to establish a set of indicators and criteria for their evaluation for further scientific research of the need and possibility of restoring the health of soil ecosystems in order to improve state planning of land use.