Anthropic Soils

Background

Soils are the stage for human activities linked to food production, residence, and the foundation of cities, industries, and construction materials. They also serve as repositories and destinations for by-products and residues from a wide range of processes that transform matter into consumer goods. One of the biggest challenges for Soil Science in the current millennium, 100 years since the creation of the IUSS, is understanding the extent and characteristics of human impacts on soils, both in historical (and prehistoric) contexts and in the contemporary context of widespread technological transformation of the terrestrial landscape. The great global acceleration has left an extensive and little-known legacy of deeply impacted soils, which are vastly different from well-known natural soils. Anthropic soils have received increasing attention from soil scientists worldwide, and the Brazilian Society of Soil Science (SBCS) is internationally recognized for research that ranges from archaeological soils in a historical dimension prior to the arrival of Europeans, to the most recent Technosols resulting from accelerated urbanization and technology in recent decades. To fill this gap and enhance the dissemination of advances on this topic in tropical and subtropical environments, the RBCS is launching this induced call in an edition that aims to present state-of-the-art research in Archaeoantrosols, Urban Soils, Technosols, and all variants of anthropic soils, with an emphasis on the Latin American Tropics and Subtropics. Submissions are very welcome from all researchers working on the topic of Anthropic soils, in their various modalities. This initiative is expected to reveal a rich collection of current information about these important soils, not yet included in the Brazilian Soil Classification System (SisBCS), in an order that can systematize their classification framework in Brazil.

Objective

Up to 15 articles will be published, including:

review articles

research articles

scientific notes.

Scope and information for authors

 Articles should highlight the contribution to present state-of-the-art research in Archaeoantrosols, Urban Soils, Technosols, and all variants of anthropic soils, with an emphasis on the Latin American Tropics and Subtropics.

Submissions deadline

February 28, 2025