1. To whom the burden of soil degradation and management concerns Amber M. Bateman and Miriam Muñoz-Rojas 2. Agriculture and grazing environments Igor Bogunovic, Manuel Pulido Fernandez, Ivica Kisic, and Maria Burguet Marimon 3. Soil degradation, restoration and management in abandoned and afforested lands Teodoro Lasanta, José Arnaez, and Estela Nadal-Romero 4. Environments affected by fire Paulo Pereira, Juan F. Martínez-Murillo, and Marcos Francos 5. Mining environments María Gabarrón, Raúl Zornoza, Jose A. Acosta, Ángel Faz, and Silvia Martínez-Martínez 6. Urban areas Carla S.S. Ferreira, Zahra Kalantari, Luca Salvati, Loredana Canfora, Ilaria Zambon, and Rory P.D. Walsh
Paulo Pereira is a full professor at the Environmental Management Center, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania. He holds a PhD in Physical Geography from the University of Barcelona and has previous experience working on spatial modelling of environmental variables and applying these results to sustainable landscape planning. Prof. Pereira was awarded the outstanding young scientist award from the Soil System Sciences Division (European Geoscience Union) and is one of the most influential scientists in the world in the field of environmental sciences, according to Elsevier/Stanford University. Prof. Pereira is an editor and guest editor of various journals in the field of environment and soil science.