SF Box - A tool for evaluating effects on ecological soil functions in remediation projects
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: The proposed EU Soil Framework Directive from 2006 has recognized soil functions as critical for ecosystem survival and human well-being. To meet emerging regulatory requirements on soil protection, this report presents an Excel-based tool, SF Box, for evaluating the effects on soil functions in remediation projects. The evaluation of ecological soil function is based on scoring of a set of soil quality indicators and computing a soil quality class for each remediation alternative. In order to evaluate the effects of remediation alternatives on soil functions, a soil quality class for each alternative is compared against the soil quality class in the reference alternative. By doing so, the SF Box tool provides a summary of the effects caused by remediation alternatives on soil functions, where the effects are scored between -2 representing “very negative effect” and +2 representing “very positive effect”. A score of 0 represents “no effect”. For demonstrating the basic possibilities of SF Box, the report includes examples on soil function evaluation in remediation projects.
Author: Yevheniya Volchko
Language: English
Subfield: Soil Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W266973159