20WCSS

20th World Congress of Soil Science

The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has been present in the 20th World Congress of Soil Science (20WCSS). 
Thanks to all participants who have visited us at Booth No #2 where you could find the following posters plus a range of books, atlases, DVDs and other publications.

Presentations

Find below the presentations delivered by Luca Montanarella and Panos Panagos who represented the Joint Research Centre in various sessions:

• The Intergovernmental Technical Panel on soils (Luca Montanarella)
• The Application of WRB by the European Commission: Experiences and future perspectives (Luca Montanarella)
• Soil Erosion At European Level: A step forward data harmonization and collection with the contribution of a European Network (Panos Panagos)
• Sustainable Development Goals: A possible instrument to tackle diffuse soil pollution? (Luca Montanarella)
• What is the Cost of Soil Erosion in Europe? (Panos Panagos)
• Land Take impact on Global Food Security (Panos Panagos)
• European Soil Data Centre: A spatial data infrastructure for research and policy making in Europe(Panos Panagos)

Atlases

The visitors of the European Commission stand in 20WCSS have shown an increased interest for the Atlases. Find below some more information on how to download a PDF version of the Atlas or to order them. Physical copies are available for purchase from the EU Bookshop for the price of 25 Euros.

• Atlas of Latin America and the Caribbean (el Atlas de suelos de América Latina y el Caribe): Download PDF, Order hard copy
• Soil Atlas of Africa: Download PDF, Order a hard Copy
• Atlas of Soil Biodiversity: Download PDF, Order hard copy
• Soil Atlas of the Northern Circumpolar Region: Download PDF, Order hard copy
• Download PDF, Order hard copy

World Soil Distribution (WRB) Poster

World Soil Distribution, (JPEG version, PDF version): 1,000 copies of this poster were distributed from Booth No #2 of the European Commission in the 20WCSS. The pdf file contains trim marks to facilitate the professional printing of the poster. To print a copy of the poster without print marks, you can use the "Crop Tool" function of Adobe Acrobat [Tools>Advanced Editing>Crop Tool].  Find also some more details about the educational poster on world soil distribution.

Posters of the European Commission Booth

Donwload Poster: European Soil Data Centre	Donwload Poster: Soil Biodiversity
Donwload Poster: Landslides Research in JRC	Donwload Poster: G2 soil erosion model
Donwload Poster: Modelling tools predicting quantitative effect of different mitigation measures on soil organic carbon in agricultural soils	Donwload Poster: Soil Erodibility (K-factor) in Europe
Donwload Poster: Soil data for Europe and Beyond	Donwload Poster: Land Use /Cover Area Frame (LUCAS) soil component
Donwload Poster: JRC soil Atlases series