Australian examples of the role of soils in environmental problems

Hazelton, Pamela

doi:10.1144/gsl.sp.2006.266.01.12

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“…This has been echoed by others [181,200,236,258]. Fromherz also highlights a key point alluded to already in this article, the low profile (literal as well as metaphorical, one could say) of soil, which is often conspicuous in its absence from risk assessments of other natural resources [259,260]. Gonzalez Lago et al refer to a global soils policy vacuum and call for an urgent transdisciplinary framework approach to 're-politicize' soil [261], while a number of authors and institutions highlight the degree to which soil protection is inescapably enmeshed with ethics [262].…”

Section: Emerging Holistic Conceptual Frameworksupporting

confidence: 60%

Section: The Modern Governance Of Soil Resources Worldwidementioning

confidence: 99%

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Saving the ground beneath our feet: Establishing priorities and criteria for governing soil use and protection

Peake

Robb²

2021

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The continual loss and impairment of soil ecosystem services (SES) across the globe calls for a fundamental reconsideration of soil governance mechanisms. This critical synthesis charts the history and evolution of national and international soil law and seeks to unravel certain challenges that have contributed to this failure in governance. It describes and categorizes law and policy responses to different soil threats, and identifies a worrying widespread absence of legislation for oversight and protection of agricultural soils from urbanization, as well as a lack of clear legal mechanisms to determine national priorities for soil protection. A reduction in the world's prime farmland threatens SES, including food security, carbon storage and biodiversity. Falling between the stalls of agricultural and environmental law, the fate of farmland is often left to planners who do not see themselves as responsible for soils. Consequently, legal instruments with the greatest power to affect soil, sometimes irreversibly, are often framed and worded with little or no reference to the soil. Nevertheless, emerging conceptual frameworks might offer positive outcomes. The authors advocate robust holistic policies of soil governance and land use planning that place SES and natural capital at the heart of decision making.

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Section: Emerging Holistic Conceptual Frameworksupporting

confidence: 60%

Section: The Modern Governance Of Soil Resources Worldwidementioning

confidence: 99%

Saving the ground beneath our feet: Establishing priorities and criteria for governing soil use and protection

Peake

Robb²

2021

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Soil, human society and the environment

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Warkentin

Frossard

2006

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Soils, forming the top layer of the Earth's crust, are a mixture of mineral particles, organic matter, water, air and living organisms. Processes between these components perform vital functions within ecosystems. The soil forms an interface between the geosphere, the biosphere, the hydrosphere and the atmosphere, and is a largely non-renewable resource. Ugolini & Warkentin show the fruitful relationships which geology and soil science have established since the birth of soil science, and how these two disciplines together could contribute to solve future problems.The dynamic soil system delivers functions and services vital for human societies and the environment. Soil is the basis for food and biomass production, and plays a central role as a habitat for biota and as a gene pool. Moreover, it stores, filters, buffers and transforms a large variety of substances, including water, inorganic and organic compounds, and is a major sink and source for greenhouse gases. Soil provides raw materials for human use. It also serves as the basis for human activities (landscape and heritage) and for our technical and socio-economic infrastructure, delivering materials for their implementation and maintenance.

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Australian examples of the role of soils in environmental problems

Cited by 2 publications

References 17 publications

Saving the ground beneath our feet: Establishing priorities and criteria for governing soil use and protection

Saving the ground beneath our feet: Establishing priorities and criteria for governing soil use and protection

Soil, human society and the environment

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