Bottom of the year
The Soil of the Year was first presented for 2005 on the occasion of the annual World Soil Day on December 5, 2004. The campaign aims to convey the importance of soil for people and its worthy of protection ; it takes place in Germany , Austria and Switzerland .
Goal setting
Soils are threatened in their functionality worldwide by human activity . However, in contrast to species , air and water protection , soils are hardly considered in politics, public opinion and nature conservation. Soil damage such as acidification , erosion or sealing occurs in Central Europe as well as in other parts of the world. And this damage is particularly serious because, in contrast to air and water pollution, which can be reversed relatively quickly via cleaning systems, most soil damage is difficult to reverse or even irreversible. In Germany alone, almost 80 hectares of soil are sealed every day (2011). That corresponds to the area of 110 soccer fields. In addition, in this country, largely unnoticed by the public, 50% of the arable land is at risk of erosion.
On the one hand, the lack of interest may be due to the fact that soil damage is mostly insidious and inconspicuous. Processes that only bring about visible changes over decades do not attract the public's attention. On the other hand, there is a lack of knowledge. Floors as such are hardly considered in schools and the media. According to the principle “you only protect what you know”, attempts have been made for a number of years to make the importance and endangerment of soils more popular. The “Soil of the Year” campaign with information on the respective soils has been carried out since 2005 for this purpose.
organization
The campaign was initiated by the German Soil Science Society (DBG) and the Federal Soil Association (BVB). At the end of 2007, the Austrian Soil Science Society (ÖBG) joined the sponsoring group. The campaign is supported by the Federal Environment Agency , among others . Soil of the Year is selected by the Soil of the Year Board of Trustees , whose spokesperson Monika Frielinghaus from the Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) in Müncheberg is. Since 2011 a “Soil of the Year” campaign has been carried out by the Soil Science Society of Switzerland (BGS / SSP), albeit independently of the German and Austrian Soil Science Society.
The soils of the year are presented to the public in specialist magazines and in a flyer, which contains information about the formation, properties, distribution and hazards of the respective soil type . In addition to the flyers about the respective soil of the year, there is also a general flyer in which the “Soil of the Year” campaign is presented and which summarizes things worth knowing about soils in a brief and easy-to-understand way.
Previous soils of the year
year | German name | Designation according to WRB |
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2005 | Black earth | Chernozem or Phaeozem |
2006 | Pale earth | Albeluvisol or Albic Luvisol |
2007 | Podzol | Podzol |
2008 | Brown earth | Cambisol or Brunic Arenosol |
2009 | Kalkmarsch | Fluvisol or Gleysol |
2010 | City floors | Technosols |
2011 | Vega | Fluvic Cambisol |
2012 | Fen | Rheic Histosol |
2013 | Plaggenesch | Plaggic Anthrosol |
2014 | Vineyard soils | |
2015 | Backwater bottom | Planosol or Stagnosol |
2016 | Groundwater floor | Gleysol |
2017 | Garden soil | Hortic Anthrosol |
2018 | Alpine humus soil | Folic Histosol or Suprafolic Leptosol |
2019 | Tilt floor | Regosol |
2020 | watt | Gleysol with Tidalic Qualifier |
See also
Web links
- boden-des-jahres.de
- dbges.de - German Soil Science Society
- bvboden.de - Federal Soil Association
- boden-des-jahres.ch - Soil Science Society of Switzerland
- umweltbundesamt.de - Federal Environment Agency (Germany)
Individual evidence
- ^ Text of the Federal Environment Agency on soil sealing
- ^ Text of the Federal Environment Agency on soil erosion
- ^ First call to the soil of the year 2005 (PDF) ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ oebg.boku.ac.at
- ↑ 2005 - Black Earth
- ↑ 2006 - Pale Earth
- ↑ 2007 - Podzol
- ↑ 2008 - Brown Earth
- ↑ 2009 - Kalkmarsch
- ↑ 2010 - city floors
- ↑ 2011 - Brauner Auenboden
- ↑ 2012 - Niedermoor
- ↑ Britta Fecke, in conversation with Frank Glante from the Federal Environment Agency: “We have to step up our activities” . In: dradio.de , December 5, 2012
- ↑ The Plaggenesch - Soil of the Year 2013 , BGR, 2013
- ↑ 2013 - Plaggenesch
- ^ Deutsche Bodenkundliche Gesellschaft (DBG): Soil of the year 2014 - vineyard soils (profile) . ( Memento from July 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: dbges.de , July 24, 2014
- ↑ 2014 - vineyard soil
- ↑ Flyer on the floor of the year 2015
- ↑ 2015 - Backwater bottom
- ↑ 2016 - Groundwater bottom
- ^ Soil of the Year Board of Trustees: Soil of the Year 2017 - Garden Soil , accessed on December 5, 2016.
- ↑ Garden soil - soil of the year 2017
- ^ Kuratorium Boden des Jahres: [1] , accessed on December 5, 2017
- ^ Kuratorium Boden des Jahres: [2] , accessed on December 5, 2018
- ↑ Ecologically valuable: Watt is “Soil of the Year” at ndr.de from December 4, 2019