Global Soil Security

Global Soil Security edited by Damien J. Field, Cristine L.S. Morgan, Alex B. McBratney.

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, modeli...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Field, Damien J. (Editor), Morgan, Cristine L.S (Editor), McBratney, Alex B. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Progress in Soil Science,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Soil science.
Soil conservation.
Climate change.
Biodiversity.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of 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.

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