Dear authors,
after checking with the editorial team of SOIL, this decision comes to allow you upload the revised version of the manuscript addressing the comments of both reviewers. Thank you in advance for writing a reply to their comments.

My view of the manuscript is similar to the one of the second reviewer:
The topic of your paper and the approach you follow is highly interesting and innovative. I encourage you to make the introduction stronger in terms of presenting the objectives of such an assessment: which were the policy and decision makers' interest to use this methodology? And also describe better the SHARED approach. The soil aspect is at the current version quite weak as it only refers to the SOC map and a previous publication. In general, I would recommend to present in a more comprehensive way the links between all elements considered in the approach you take. For that, it is not helpful that the Annex is only a brochure / external report. A specific narrative integrated within the paper would be necessary as part of the results.
In general, a more rigorous structuring of the manuscript following a scientific logic could be helpful.

Best regards,
Viridiana

Dear Tor and co-authors,

First of all, I would like to thank you for choosing SOIL as an outlet for your work. Second, I am very happy to see that the manuscript nicely improved through the review process and I would like to thank you for working with the reviewers on this.

best,
Jo