Land degradation, soil erosion, salinisation and land-use change undermine food production, water regulation and carbon storage, and they amplify flood, drought, landslide and dust hazards. This section of the Climate and Earth Systems subsite sets records for land cover and land-use change, soil properties and land degradation so that land-use planners, agriculture ministries and restoration programmes measure change with consistent baselines and stated uncertainty. Every artifact of the area carries a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier), which identifies and never certifies.
Nexus Standards (2026). Land and soil risk standards: area brief, Climate and Earth Systems (PROPOSED). https://nexustandards.com/climate/land-and-soil-risk-standards/. Last reviewed 2026-10-17.
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SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC)STAC community; OGC Community Standardregister · stacOGC API - FeaturesOpen Geospatial Consortiumregister · ogc-api-featuresFAIR Guiding PrinciplesGO FAIR (Wilkinson et al. 2016)register · fair-principlesCARE Principles for Indigenous Data GovernanceGlobal Indigenous Data Allianceregister · care-principlesHazards and threats 5
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Sources the area reads or proposes. Delivery follows GRIx first; a source is shown live only after an owner decision admits it for public pages.
No legal register row admits any of these sources for live display on public pages yet, so nothing is read from them here. A register row that exists records the source for the governed GRIx path; admission for public pages is a separate owner decision.
Copernicus Land Monitoring Service productspending admission
Copernicus / European Environment Agency · varies by product
Copernicus full, open and free data policy
GRIx governed readregister row exists
ESA WorldCover 10 m land coverpending admission
European Space Agency · 2020 and 2021 epochs
CC BY 4.0
GRIx governed readregister row exists
Global Forest Watch tree cover loss (Hansen/UMD) and alertspending admission
World Resources Institute and University of Maryland · annual and weekly alerts
CC BY 4.0
build-time snapshotproposed register row
SoilGrids 2.0 global soil property mapspending admission
ISRIC - World Soil Information · static release
CC BY 4.0
build-time snapshotproposed register row
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Status proposed · 5 rules stated. Read NS-9
Status proposed · 6 rules stated. Read NS-11
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GCRI Canada may admit land and soil records that carry classification scheme, epoch and accuracy assessment as research evidence; GCRI Canada decides under its own evidence and research rules, and no approval is implied.
GRF may record restoration programmes reporting on shared baselines as a dialogue item; GRF decides under its own recognition rules, and no recognition or endorsement is implied.
GRA may use land-degradation and restoration records when it considers land-based investment; GRA decides under its own capital-readiness rules, and no approval, rating or investment view is implied.
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Records for land cover, soil properties and degradation baselines that support SDG 15.3.1 reporting and restoration monitoring.
No working group is chartered yet; a community may charter this one under NS-13 through a docket.
Peer-reviewed sources and published statistics on the publishers' own domains, as the context entry cites them. No Risk Academy faculty pathway is linked to this area yet; one is linked when a faculty publishes a pathway that fits.
Risk Academy disciplines that teach Land and soil risk standards, with their courses; the GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) subsites that carry those disciplines; and the Nexus Foundry systems the standards name. Mappings are proposed for review (Risk Academy standards map, 2026-10-17); a link says a page on the same subject exists, never an endorsement or a conformance statement; framework names in course titles are named and linked, never reproduced.
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