Global soil security. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Damien J. Field, Cristine L.S. Morgan, Alex B. McBratney, editors.
• Contents: Part I: Rationale for soil security -- Soil security -- a rationale -- Soil security: dimensions -- Part II: Capability -- Soil capability: exploring the functional potentials of soils -- Distinguishing between capability and condition -- The value of soil capability in land surface modeling -- Soil capability for the United States now and into the future -- Quantifying soil capability: GlobalSoilMap -- Testing the links between soil security, sustainable land management practices and land evaluation -- Part III: Condition -- General concepts of valuing and caring for soil -- Soil health: challenges and opportunities -- Using soil survey to assess and predict soil condition and change -- Root-microbe interactions in response to soil conditions -- Securing our soil in intense monoculture cropping systems -- Soil organic carbon stocks and soil respiration in tropical secondary forests in southern Mexico -- Simulating impacts of bioenergy sorghum residue return on soil organic carbon and greenhouse gas emissions using the Daycent model -- Cover crop effects on soil carbon and nitrogen under bioenergy sorghum crops -- Part IV: Capital -- Energy, economics, climate change and soil security -- Understanding soils' contribution to ecosystem services provision to inform farm system analysis -- The dollars and cents of soil health -- The value of soil's contributions to ecosystem services -- Economics of land degradation contribution to soil security in Eurasia -- Social license and soil security -- Part V: Connectivity -- Soil renaissance and the connection to land managers -- Links between soil security and the influence of soils on human health -- Soil contamination and human health: a major challenge for global soil security -- The measurement of soil security in terms of human health: examples and ideas -- The meta soil model: an integrative multi-model framework for soil security -- Integrating new perspectives to address global soil security: ideas from integral ecology -- Applying the meta soil model: the connections between soil security and water security in a permanent protection area in Brazil -- Bridging the research-management gap to restore ecosystem function and social resilience -- Engendering connectivity to soil through aesthetics -- The role of master gardeners in providing horticulture education to Marion County residents -- Soil -water-food nexus: a public policy perspective -- Whose "security" is important?: communicating risk about soil to a diverse population -- Part VI: Codification -- Save the soil to save the planet -- Protection of the soil resource in the Brazilian environmental legislation -- Creating incentives for improved soil health through the federal crop insurance program -- U.S. farm programs and the impacts on national and international soil security -- Soil security for agricultural productivity: the policy disconnect and a promising future -- Securitisation -- The place of soil in international government policy -- Translating soil science knowledge to public policy -- Synthesis: goals to achieve soil security.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 333.7; Environment; Soil protection; Soil science; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General; Soil protection; Soil science; Bodenschutz; Science -- Global Warming & Climate Change; Science -- Life Sciences -- Ecology; The environment; Biodiversity; Soil conservation; Biodiversity; Nature -- Environmental Conservation & Protection; Soil science, sedimentology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319433943; 3319433946
• Related ISBNs: 3319433938; 9783319433936
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