Livelihood transformation from fishing to tourism: an adaptive sustainable livelihood framework for understanding lakeside communities of China

Global black soil distribution map developed by using country-driven approach.• Black soils are key to global food security and climate change mitigation and adaptation.• Black soils form under various pedoenvironments at global level.• Black soils predominantly occur in Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern Asia, and the northern and southern extremities of the Americas.• Black soils hold a substantial global soil organic carbon stock, amounting to about 56 Gt.