Geoderma· 2013Q1
The dimensions of soil security
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A new multi-dimensional framework for 'soil security' is proposed, encompassing capability, condition, capital, connectivity, and codification, to better integrate soil's role in global sustainability.
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Key points
- Introduces 'soil security' as an overarching concept for soil management.
- Defines soil security across five dimensions: capability, condition, capital, connectivity, and codification.
- Integrates social, economic, biophysical, policy, and legal sciences.
- Compares soil security to narrower concepts like soil quality and health.
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Abstract
Soil security, an overarching concept of soil motivated by sustainable development, is concerned with the maintenance and improvement of the global soil resource to produce food, fibre and fresh water, contribute to energy and climate sustainability, and to maintain the biodiversity and the overall protection of the ecosystem. Security is used here for soil in the same sense that it is used widely for food and water. It is argued that soil has an integral part to play in the global environmental sustainability challenges of food security, water security, energy sustainability, climate stability, biodiversity, and ecosystem service delivery. Indeed, soil has the same existential status as these issues and should be recognized and highlighted similarly. The concept of soil security is multi-dimensional. It acknowledges the five dimensions of (1) capability, (2) condition, (3) capital, (4) connectivity and (5) codification, of soil entities which encompass the social, economic and biophysical sciences and recognize policy and legal frameworks. The soil security concept is compared with the cognate, but more limited, notions of soil quality, health and protection.
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Field: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
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