Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Global Soil Security

  • Book
  • © 2017

Overview

Editors:
  1. Damien J. Field

    1. Faculty of Agriculture & Environment, The University of Sydney, Eveleigh, Australia

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Cristine L. S. Morgan

    1. Department of Soil & Crop Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  3. Alex B. McBratney

    1. Faculty of Agriculture & Environment, The University of Sydney, Eveleigh, Australia

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • 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)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 139.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 179.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 179.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (43 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Rationale for Soil Security

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Soil Security: A Rationale

      • Alex B. McBratney, Damien J. Field, Cristine L. S. Morgan, Lorna E. Jarrett
      Pages 3-14

    3. Soil Security: Dimensions

      • Damien J. Field
      Pages 15-23

  3. Capability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Soil Capability: Exploring the Functional Potentials of Soils

      • Johan Bouma, M. K. van Ittersum, J. J. Stoorvogel, N. H. Batjes, P. Droogers, M. M. Pulleman
      Pages 27-44

    3. Distinguishing Between Capability and Condition

      • Damien J. Field, T. Sanderson
      Pages 45-52

    4. Valuing of Soil Capability in Land Surface Modeling

      • Cristine L. S. Morgan, Yohannes T. Yimam, Michael Barlage, David Gochis, Bright Dornblaser
      Pages 53-61

    5. Soil Capability for the USA Now and into the Future

      • Maxine J. Levin, R. Dobos, S. Peaslee, D. W. Smith, C. Seybold
      Pages 63-76

    6. Quantifying Capability: GlobalSoilMap

      • Alex B. McBratney, Dominique Arrouays, Lorna E. Jarrett
      Pages 77-85

    7. Testing the Links Between Soil Security, Sustainable Land Management Practices and Land Evaluation

      • Brian Murphy
      Pages 87-97

  4. Condition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
      Download chapter PDF

    2. General Concepts of Valuing and Caring for Soil

      • Alex B. McBratney, Damien J. Field, Lorna E. Jarrett
      Pages 101-108

    3. Soil Health: Challenges and Opportunities

      • Diane E. Stott, Bianca N. Moebius-Clune
      Pages 109-121

    4. Using Soil Survey to Assess and Predict Soil Condition and Change

      • Skye Wills, Candiss Williams, C. Seybold, Linda Scheffe, Zamir Libohova, David Hoover et al.
      Pages 123-135

    5. Root-Microbe Interactions in Response to Soil Conditions

      • Anil Somenahally
      Pages 137-144

    6. Securing Our Soil in Intensive Monoculture Cropping Systems

      • Katie L. Lewis, Paul DeLaune, Wayne Keeling
      Pages 145-151

    7. Soil Organic Carbon Stocks and Soil Respiration in Tropical Secondary Forests in Southern Mexico

      • Deb Raj Aryal, Bernardus Hendricus Joseph De Jong, Jorge Mendoza-Vega, Susana Ochoa-Gaona, Ligia Esparza-Olguín
      Pages 153-165

    8. Simulating Impacts of Bioenergy Sorghum Residue Return on Soil Organic Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Using the DAYCENT Model

      • Yong Wang, Fugen Dou, Joseph O. Storlien, Jason P. Wight, Keith H. Paustian, Stephen J. Del Grosso et al.
      Pages 167-180

    9. Cover Crops for Enriching Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Under Bioenergy Sorghum

      • Upendra M. Sainju, H. P. Singh, B. P. Singh
      Pages 181-192
Back to top

Keywords

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.

   


 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Agriculture & Environment, The University of Sydney, Eveleigh, Australia

    Damien J. Field, Alex B. McBratney

  • Department of Soil & Crop Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

    Cristine L. S. Morgan

About the editors



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

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation