2.3 The status of Soil Erosion
In order to better understand soil erosion, considered as one of the most relevant land degradation processes (Tošić et al, 2012;), the study focused on RS which covers 49% of BIH territory. RS is located in south-eastern Europe (Figure 1a ), covering a surface area of 25.128,22 km2 and embrassing a population of 1,170,342 people (Census, 2017).