S-world
A global soil property database
for environmental modelling
Literature
Stoorvogel,J. J., Bakkenes, M.,Temme, A.J.A.M.,Batjes, N.H.,and ten Brink, B.J.E., 2017. S-World: A Global Soil Map for Environmental Modelling. Land Degrad. Develop., 28: 22–33. doi:10.1002/ldr.2656 .
Stoorvogel,J.J., Bakkenes, M.,ten Brink, B.J.E.,and Temme, A.J.A.M., 2017. To what extent did we change our soils? A global comparison of naturaland current conditions.. Land Degrad. Develop., doi:10.1002/ldr.2721 .
Stoorvogel, J.J., Mulder, V.L., 2021. A comparison, validation, and evaluation of the S-world global soil property database. Land, 10, 544. doi: 10.3390/land10050544 .
Applications
The S-World database and model has been applied in the following studies:
Van der Esch S., Sewell A., Bakkenes M., Berkhout E., Doelman J., Stehfest E., Langhans C., Fleskens L., Bouwman A., ten Brink B. (2021). The global potential for land restoration: Scenarios for the Global Land Outlook 2. PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Hague ( Link )
Stoorvogel, J.J., Mulder, V.L., Hendriks, C.M.J. (2019). The effect of disaggregating soil data for estimating soil hydrological parameters at different scales. Geoderma 347:185-193. doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.04.002
Van der Esch S, ten Brink B, Stehfest E, Bakkenes M, Sewell A, Bouwman A, Meijer J, Westhoek H and van den Berg, M (2017). Exploring future changes in land use and land condition and the impacts on food, water, climate change and biodiversity: Scenarios for the Global Land Outlook. PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Hague. ( Link )
Stehfest, E., van Vuuren, D., Kram, T., Bouwman, L., Alkemade, R., Bakkenes, M., Biemans, H., Bouwman, A., den Elzen, M., Janse, J., Lucas, P., van Minnen, J., Müller, C., Prins, A. (2014). Integrated Assessment of Global Environmental Change with IMAGE 3.0. Model description and policy applications, The Hague: PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Hague. ( Link )
Acknowledgements
PBL The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency is gratefully acknowledged for funding the development, comparison, and validation of the S-World database.