The local-scale impact of soil salinization on the socioeconomic context: An exploratory analysis in Italy

Spatiotemporal Distribution of Soil Moisture and Salinity in the Taklimakan Desert Highway Shelterbelt

“…Saline water irrigation can result in an increase in salinity at the soil surface. This process, which is known as secondary salinization, is a major environmental hazard [7,8] that threatens about 6% of the total global land area [9]. Salt accumulation in soil not only affects physical, chemical, and biological soil processes [10], but also reduces soil productivity [11], soil sustainability [12,13], and vegetation growth [14].…”

When Salt Meddles Between Plant, Soil, and Microorganisms

“…The salinized soil readily undergoes to a further series of degradation processes, such as erosion ( Ishida et al., 2009 ), a decrease of organic matter content ( de Souza and Fay, 2014 ), local or widespread contamination ( Hanson et al., 1993 ), sealing, compaction, and decline of biodiversity ( Nouri et al., 2017 ). These processes contribute to compromising the quality of the soil and its ability to interact with the ecosystem to maintain biological productivity, environmental quality and promote the health of all living organisms ( Salvati and Ferrara, 2015 ; Zaman et al., 2018 ).…”

“…Geographical areas affected by salinity problems have an impact on both the environmental and socioeconomic sphere. These areas face the loss of productivity ( Datta and de Jong, 2002 ) with a different degree of magnitude depending on the crops ( Qadir et al., 2014 ) seeing their farmers sometimes reduced to poverty or forced to migrate searching for a new source of income ( Ammari et al., 2013 ; Salvati and Ferrara, 2015 ; Zaman et al., 2018 ). Soil can become saline at first, causing a decrease in agricultural yield and then, in the long run, it can progressively turn into completely sterile (desertification) ( Gorji et al., 2017 ; Cuevas et al., 2019 ).…”

Investigating the Drought and Salinity Effect on the Redox Components of Sulla coronaria (L.) Medik

“…Consequently, land degradation processes are accelerated, including the phenomenon of salinization, one of the major causes of land degradation in Europe [2]. According to Salvati and Ferrara [3], one to three million hectares of land in Mediterranean countries already deal with a severe level of degradation, thus jeopardising agricultural productivity.…”