Global Soil Security
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Global Soil Security
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Author : Damien J. Field
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-11-01
Global Soil Security written by Damien J. Field and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-01 with Nature categories.
This book introduces the concept of soil security and its five dimensions: Capability, Capital, Condition, Connectivity and Codification. These five dimensions make it possible to understand soil's role in delivering ecosystem services and to quantify soil resource by measuring, mapping, modeling and managing it. Each dimension refers to a specific aspect: contribution to global challenges (Capability), value of the soil (Capital), current state of the soil (Condition), how people are connected to the soil (Connectivity) and development of good policy (Codification). This book considers soil security as an integral part of meeting the ongoing challenge to maintain human health and secure our planet's sustainability. The concept of soil security helps to achieve the need to maintain and improve the world’s soil for the purpose of producing food, fiber and freshwater, and contributing to energy and climate sustainability. At the same time it helps to maintain biodiversity and protects ecosystem goods and services.
Global Soil Security Towards More Science Society Interfaces
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Author : Anne Richer de Forges
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2018-09-21
Global Soil Security Towards More Science Society Interfaces written by Anne Richer de Forges and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-21 with Science categories.
Global Soil Security: Towards More Science-Society Interfaces contains contributions presented at the 2nd Global Soil Security conference, held 5-6 December 2016 in Paris. These chapters focus on how to achieve soil security. This involves scientific, economic, industrial and political engagement to inform soil-users, policy makers and citizens with the objective of implementing appropriate actions. The contributions to this book address the five dimensions of soil security, namely: capability, condition, capital, connectivity and codification.
Soil Security For Ecosystem Management
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Author : Selim Kapur
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-08-27
Soil Security For Ecosystem Management written by Selim Kapur and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-27 with Law categories.
The term "Soil Security" is used in the context of maintaining the quality and quantity of soil needed in order to ensure continuous supplies of food and fresh water for our society. Topics in this unique book on the management of soil sustainability in the Mediterranean region include: soil information, land degradation, land desertification, pedoenvironments, and the carbon cycle and sequestration. One main focus of the book is the description of new approaches that have been adapted with regards to interdisciplinary soil ecosystem management to combat and mitigate desertification. The contributing authors are renowned experts in their fields which cover the subjects on traditional as well as innovative land use and management.
Voluntary Guidelines For Sustainable Soil Management
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Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
language : en
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Release Date : 2018-07-19
Voluntary Guidelines For Sustainable Soil Management written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and has been published by Food & Agriculture Org. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-19 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Soil Management (VGSSM) embody a framework for worldwide application addressing sustainable management of soils (SSM) in all type of land use systems. They promote the effective and viable maintenance and enhancement of the ecosystem services that soils provide such as food, feed, fiber production, climate regulation, nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration, and the regulation of water quality and quantity. Their overarching goals are to achieve food security for all, improve nutrition and support the progressive realization of a judicious management of non-renewable natural resource in the context of sustainable development. They represent a key output for the Global Soil Partnership that demonstrate once again to be an effective global policy forum where global soil issues are discussed and addressed by multiple stakeholders. The Guidelines serve as both a complementary tool fostering the implementation of the revised World Soil Charter and as a reference for a wide range of committed stakeholders, such as government officials, policy makers, farmers, pastoralists, forest and land managers, extension specialists and agricultural advisors, development partners, civil society, private sector and, academia, etc. The VGSSM’s added value is in its principal aim: setting out established scientific principles and internationally acknowledged recommended management practices for the responsible governance of soils. By setting out these technical and policy recommendations, they provide guidance to all stakeholders on how sustainable soil management can be achieved.
Soils And Food Security
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Author : Ronald E. Hester
language : en
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Release Date : 2012
Soils And Food Security written by Ronald E. Hester and has been published by Royal Society of Chemistry this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Science categories.
As an ecosystem service, soil also serves to capture nutrients and sequester carbon, and these issues are discussed in the context of adding value to soil protection. The influence of modern agricultural techniques in enhancing soil productivity is also discussed. Throughout the book case studies support the discussion.
World Soil Resources And Food Security
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Author : Rattan Lal
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2016-04-19
World Soil Resources And Food Security written by Rattan Lal and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-19 with Nature categories.
Soil-The Basis of All Terrestrial LifeAncient civilizations and cultures-Mayan, Aztec, Mesopotamian, Indus, and Yangtze-were built on good soils, surviving only as long as soils had the capacity to support them. In the twenty-first century, productive soil is still the engine of economic development and essential to human well-being. The quality of
Globalsoilmap Digital Soil Mapping From Country To Globe
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Author : Dominique Arrouays
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Globalsoilmap Digital Soil Mapping From Country To Globe written by Dominique Arrouays and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Electronic books categories.
"This work holds the proceedings of the Global Soil Map 2017 conference, held in Moscow, Russia between July 4-6, 2017. The last decade has shown an increasing demand for information on the state of the world's soils, from areas such as soil management, global food security, ecological sustainability, and scientists who model biospheric processes under the influence of climate change. The most recent version of the Soil Map of the World was made in 1985. Since then, new knowledge on soil geography and field data has been accumulated, allowing for the creation of many regional and local soil maps.Completely new technologies such as geospatial technologies and remote sensing have been developed. All this created the preconditions for the beginning of the work on a new digital Global Soil Map.To reach this ambitious aim a number of leading soil science institutions of various countries of the world created a Consortium that aimed to develop a methodology for global digital soil mapping, verify this methodology in different regions, and finally to make a digital Global Soil Map.Methodology and approaches are discussed at a series of annual business meetings, international scientific workshops and conferences, the most important previous ones have been held in Orleans (France) in 2013 and in Ottawa (Canada) in 2015."--Provided by publisher.
State Of Knowledge Of Soil Biodiversity Status Challenges And Potentialities Summary For Policy Makers
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Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
language : en
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Release Date : 2020-11-04
State Of Knowledge Of Soil Biodiversity Status Challenges And Potentialities Summary For Policy Makers written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and has been published by Food & Agriculture Org. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-04 with Technology & Engineering categories.
There is increasing attention on the importance of biodiversity for food security and nutrition, especially above-ground biodiversity such as plants and animals. However, less attention is being paid to the biodiversity beneath our feet, soil biodiversity, which drives many processes that produce food or purify soil and water. This summary for policy makers presents the key findings of the main report and is the result of an inclusive process involving more than 300 scientists from around the world under the auspices of the FAO’s Global Soil Partnership and its Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative and the European Commission. The summary for policy makers presents concisely the state of knowledge on soil biodiversity, the threats to it and the solutions that soil biodiversity can provide to problems in different fields. This report is a valuable contribution to raising awareness of the importance of soil biodiversity and highlighting its role in finding solutions to today's global threats.
Globalsoilmap
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Author : Dominique Arrouays
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2014-01-27
Globalsoilmap written by Dominique Arrouays and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-27 with Science categories.
GlobalSoilMap: Basis of the global spatial soil information system contains contributions that were presented at the 1st GlobalSoilMap conference, held 7-9 October 2013 in Orléans, France. These contributions demonstrate the latest developments in the GlobalSoilMap project and digital soil mapping technology for which the ultimate aim is to produce a high resolution digital spatial soil information system of selected soil properties and their uncertainties for the entire world. GlobalSoilMap: Basis of the global spatial soil information system aims to stimulate capacity building and new incentives to develop full GlobalSoilMap products in all parts of the world.
Ground Breaking
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Author : Philip Mulvey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-08
Ground Breaking written by Philip Mulvey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08 with categories.
Practical solutions for agricultural management, enabling the restoration of landscape, climate and community. Reaching zero emissions alone won't stop the Earth heating up. There's another factor at play, even bigger than rising greenhouse gas levels: agricultural land use, and it is turning the world's bread baskets into deserts. In south west Western Australia, the 'Bunny Fence Experiment', the world's largest study of two contrasting land uses in the same vast region, showed strong evidence that clearing and cropping was the reason why rainfall over the Wheat Belt has dropped 20 per cent in the lifetime of some of us. This book tells of how what farmers do exports heat waves, dust and fire, south and south-eastward in Eastern Australia and north and north-westward in Western America. You'd be forgiven for thinking there ought to be a law against it, but our lawmakers don't even acknowledge that under the air and the plants, there is anything but bedrock. Soil, the depleted carbon sink that still manages to feed us today, might as well be a vacuum in law, but it could be a saviour for our civilisations. Ground Breaking has solutions too: manage land use, sequester carbon in soil, reduce bare ground and increase bush corridors.