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Mapping of soil and terrain vulnerability in Central and Eastern Europe (SOVEUR)

Completed

Europe

Soil information products

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Zhanguo Bai,

Senior soil and land degradation assessment expert

Project start
1997
Project end
2000

The SOVEUR project for Central and Eastern Europe developed a harmonized soil and terrain database at 1:2.5 million scale, a database and associated maps on the status of soil degradation, and assessed the vulnerability of soils to selected forms of diffuse pollution.

The SOVEUR project was coordinated by ISRIC for the FAO and involved partners from 13 countries:

  • Belarus: Byelorussian Academy of Science, Institute of Pedology and Agrochemistry, Minsk.  

  • Bulgaria: N. Poushkarov Institute of Soil Science and Agroecology, Sofia.  

  • Czech Republic: University of Agriculture of Prague, Faculty of Agronomy, Department of Soil Science and Ecology, Praha.  

  • Estonia: Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry, Estonian Agricultural University, Tartu.  

  • Hungary: Research Institute for Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry (RISSAC) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.  

  • Latvia: Latvia University of Agriculture, Department of Soil Sciences and Agrochemistry, Jelgava.  

  • Lithuania: Dept. of Soil Science and Agrochemistry, Lithuanian University of Agriculture, Kaunas-Akademija.  

  • Moldova: Soil Department, Agrarian University of Moldova, Kishinev.  

  • Poland: Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation, Osada Palacowa, Pulawy.  

  • Romania: Research Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry (RISSA), Bucuresti.  

  • Russia: V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Institute, Moscow.  

  • Slovakia: Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute, Bratislava.  

  • Ukraine: Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry Research, Kharkov

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