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Soils: The Foundation of Life: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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climate change mitigation and adaptation, human If we look at all these major challenges that we are health, biological diversity, and more. In each of these facing today, in terms of climate change, sea-level areas, presenters spoke on the incorporation of scientific rise, contamination, food security, infrastructure concepts in decisions made at different scales, from needs, national and international security, soils are at national and state policy to the choices that consumers the middle of every one of those topics." -- Donald make every day.
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Soil properties vary greatly, calls "one of the biggest threats to global health, food given the Earth's range of rocks, plants, and climates. For security, and development today." example, soils in the tropics are characterized by high inputs, fast decomposition, and efficient recycling, while Challenges that threaten soils include changes boreal soils in colder climates have moderate inputs, slow in land use and cover, unsustainable land-management decomposition, and inefficient recycling in terms of how and agricultural practices, and climate and environmental quickly or in which proportion the nutrients in litter and/ changes.
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Trumbore cited one study which concluded that 5 to 15 percent of C in the permafrost zone is vulnerable to release as greenhouse gas within this century.8 Since food will need to be grown under Figure 1. Severe soil erosion in a wheat field near Washmore challenging circumstances, more care will need to ington State University.
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to securing a foundation of sustainability through resource care for, maintain, and create healthy soils through the management: (1) moving from a blue-only to a greenimplementation of a comprehensive soil conservation blue-gray approach in land-water management; (2)
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More soils negatively influence human health. About 2 billion than 2 billion people suffer "hidden hunger," in which a people are at risk of iodine deficiency disorders caused chronic lack of vitamins and minerals can lead to mental by a lack of naturally occurring iodine in soils; millions of impairment, poor health and productivity, and possible others live in areas with low-selenium soils.
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Reduced soil biodiversity, Wall pointed out, affects human, animal, and plant health. Wall called attention to New tools have led to greater understanding of the the June 2016 publication of the Global Soil Biodiversity biodiversity within soils in recent years, according to Atlas11 (freely available online)
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PANEL DISCUSSION ON SOILS: THE DISCIPLINE looked at the role of soils in the built environment -- AND THE RESOURCE including roads, bridges, levees, building construction, and other infrastructure. The current state of infrastructure Asmeret Asefaw Berhe (University of California, in the United States is poor, with an estimated $3.6 trillion Merced)
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land.14 She also referred participants to efforts to monetize the value of soil conservation and other environmental improvements, such as by Earth Economics, an organization based in Tacoma, WA, that applies economic tools to environmental decision making.15 Campbell stressed the need to involve soil Figure 5. Sally Brown in her Washington garden with science in land-use decisions.
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Members of the water, food, and health breakout Service) , mentioned the value of more data linking soil group suggested that moving from research to practice biodiversity with soil health and ecosystem services, takes time -- more time than most non-scientists expect -- along with a better understanding of the variability across and the challenge to bridge the gap between science scales or when changes occur.
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multinationals who want to protect their investments, private-sector research and development, philanthropic Polls consistently show that the public perceives foundations, citizen engagement, and others, and that the the economy, distrust of government, and other issues messages need to be simplified. A few participants in the with a far higher priority than the environment, noted biodiversity breakout group mentioned that citizen science Amundson.
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much as the Earth." -- Ronald Amundson He suggested these institutions recognize sustainability as a science, across disciplines, and ensure it receives the funding it needs.
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, Ronald Amundson (University of California, Berkeley) , Asmeret Asefaw Berhe (University of California, Merced)
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