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Significance We use the latest projections of climate and land use change to assess potential global soil erosion rates by water to address policy questions; working toward the goals of the United Nations working groups under the Inter-Governmental Technical Panel on Soils of the Global Soil Partnership. This effort will enable policy makers to explore erosion extent, identify possible hotspots, and work with stakeholders to mitigate impacts. In addition, we provide insight into the potential mitigating effects attributable to conservation agriculture and the need for more effective policy instruments for soil protection. Scientifically, the modeling framework presented adopts a series of methodological advances and standardized data to communicate with adjacent disciplines and move toward robust, reproducible, and open data science.

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General partnershipClimate changeEnvironmental scienceEnvironmental resource managementEnvironmental planningSoil conservationAgricultureWork (physics)ErosionClimate change mitigationLand useGlobal changeSoil waterEnvironmental protectionNatural resource economicsBusinessGeographySoil scienceEngineeringEconomicsEcologyCivil engineering

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Year
2020
Type
article
Volume
117
Issue
36
Pages
21994-22001
Citations
1239
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Pasquale Borrelli, David A. Robinson, Panos Panagos et al. (2020). Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosion by water (2015-2070). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 117 (36) , 21994-22001. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2001403117

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10.1073/pnas.2001403117