Editors:
- Provides a framework for policy makers to improve soil quality
- Addresses soil security issues
- Examines soil security and its five dimensions, Capability, Capital, Condition, Connectivity and Codification
Part of the book series: Progress in Soil Science (PROSOIL)
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Table of contents (43 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Rationale for Soil Security
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Front Matter
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Capability
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Front Matter
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Condition
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About this book
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 protectsecosystem goods and services.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Agriculture & Environment, The University of Sydney, Eveleigh, Australia
Damien J. Field, Alex B. McBratney
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Department of Soil & Crop Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
Cristine L. S. Morgan
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Soil Security
Editors: Damien J. Field, Cristine L. S. Morgan, Alex B. McBratney
Series Title: Progress in Soil Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43394-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43393-6Published: 06 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82811-4Published: 06 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43394-3Published: 01 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2352-4774
Series E-ISSN: 2352-4782
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 469
Number of Illustrations: 102 b/w illustrations
Topics: Soil Science & Conservation, Climate Change Management and Policy, Biodiversity