DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2017.01.000172
*Corresponding author:
Ferdo Bašić, Fellow of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Department of natural Sciences, Zrinjski trg 11 - Croatia, ZAGREB, CroatiaReceived: June 29, 2017 Published: July 03, 2017
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Summarizing “global soil inventory” through published books of World Soil Book Series of A. Hartemink there are recognizable two tendencies in global Soil sciences. One of them, just respecting importance of environment - regulatory (“non - food”) functions of soil, like soil scientists of Europe and developed countries expect to see the future of Soil science within environmental sciences. They insist on soil monitoring and “green energy” and more or less accept soil (land) as essential resource of (environmentally, socially economically) sustainable production of biofuels. The other one, productive function of soil - (food) oriented, see Soil science within agriculture and forestry, insisting on ever-higher yields of growing crops and forest.