Validation of the maps resulting from the application of the Cookbooks elaborated by WP3, and of EU products elaborated by WP5
Creators: name: Cousin, Isabelle
name: Asins-Velis, Sabina
name: Astover, Alar
name: Buttafuoco, Gabriele
name: Hessel, Rudi
name: Lemercier, Blandine
name: Lorenzetti, Romina
name: ASSENNATO, FRANCESCA
name: BISPO, Antonio
name: Bondi, Giulia
name: Borůvka, Luboš
name: Brunner, Thomas
name: Castanheira, Nádia Luísa
name: Coblinski, João
name: Cockx, Kasper
name: Congedo, Luca
name: Cornu, Sophie
name: criscuoli, irene
name: Dara Guccione, Giovanni
name: De Fioravante, Paolo
name: Rodrigues Donato, Paulo Emilio
name: Fahy, Alan
name: Feiza, Virginijus
name: Foldal, Cecilie Birgitte
name: Gaillot, Arthur
name: GARDIN, LORENZO
name: Harem-Majdalani, Christina
name: Klimkowicz-Pawlas, Agnieszka
name: Kukk, Liia
name: Le Bas, Christine
name: Laborczi, Annamária
name: Marinosci, Ines
name: Medina-Roldan, Eduardo
name: Munafò, Michele
name: Oorts, Katrien
name: O'Sullivan, Lilian
name: Pálka, Boris
name: Piccini, Chiara
name: Putku, Elsa
name: Pindral, Sylwia
name: Reyes-Rojas, Jessica
name: RIITANO, NICOLA
name: Saby, Nicolas
name: Smiraglia, Daniela
name: Trip, Martine
name: Volungevičius, Jonas
name: Weninger, Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: EJP SOIL SERENA
subject: Grant n 86269
subject: soil mapping
subject: soil modelling
subject: Stakeholder Participation
subject: stakeholders

description: The internal EJP SOIL project SERENA contributed to the evaluation of soil multifunctionality aiming at providing assessment tools for land planning and soil policies at different scales. By co-working with relevant stakeholders, the project provided co-developed indicators and associated cookbooks to assess and map them, to report both on soil degradation, soil-based ecosystem services and their bundles, under actual conditions and for climate and land-use changes, at the regional, national, and European scales.

This report is part of the EJP SOIL SERENA project. It presents the way some stakeholders have been involved in the project to validate mapping products of soil-based ecosystem services and soil threats, at both the national and EU scales.

At national scale, the maps have been produced by some harmonised cookbooks. The cookbooks are first presented and their concern: as far as soil threats are concerned, and as far as soil-based ecosystem services are concerned. A cookbook for an evaluation of bundles is also presented. The list of countries which have evaluated the different products is then precised. The results of the evaluation by stakeholders are commented all together, without any relation to a specific country. They demonstrate that the results are more likely understood by scientists than by policy makers or farmers. For the latter, the scale of the maps are not relevant with their own interest. The maps of erosion, SOC loss and soil sealing seem to be more easily understood by the stakeholder that the GHG regulation, and the bundles, with which stakeholders are not familiar. 

At the EU scale, the evaluation has been conducted during a webinar organised by EJP-Soil WP8 (Science to Policy), and only the bundles of either soil threats or soil-based ecosystem services have been evaluated. The stakeholders were usually interested in the approach, acknowledged the results, but the latter sometimes appeared far from the actions they could develop to protect soils.