Soil science and society in the Dutch context

Bouma, J.; Hartemink, Alfred E.

doi:10.1016/s1573-5214(03)80002-7

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“…Engaging properly with this complex history, or acknowledge the range of disciplinary perspectives on it goes well beyond the purposes of this paper. What is important to note here is that discussions about the future of soil science in the last twenty years have gone pair with an interest towards historical accounts of the discipline that include a relation with wider socioeconomic contexts (Bouma & Hartemink, 2002). An important story line could contribute to this effort by focusing on how advancements in the field's history have been entangled with moments of crisis affecting soil as resource.…”

Section: Soil Science Futures In An Epoch Of Ecological Breakdownmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making time for soil: Technoscientific futurity and the pace of care

2015

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The dominant drive for understanding soil has been to pace its fertility with human demand. But today warnings about soil's exhaustion and endangered ecology raise concerns that they have been mistreated throughout history. These worries are marked by fears of gloomy environmental futures, prompting us, and specially scientists and soil practitioners to urgently develop better ways of taking care of soils. Yet the pace required by ecological soil care could be at odds with the predominant temporal orientation of technoscientific intervention: driven by an inherently progressivist, productionist and restless mode of futurity. Through a conceptual and historical approach to the soil sciences and other domains of soil knowledge the paper looks for soil ontologies and approaches to human-soil relations that are obscured by this predominant timescape. Discussions about the future of the soil sciences already expose tensions between 'progress as usual' -by intensifying productivity -and the need to protect the pace of soil renewal. However it is in the interrogation of the intimate relation of soil science with productionism, and in the emergence of soil ecology conceptions that emphasise soil as a living community rather than a receptacle for crops, that we could see emerging alternative soil ontologies and human-soil relations paced by a temporality of care. The 'foodweb' model of soil ecology in particular has become a figure of alternative human-soil relations for environmental activists and practitioners, promoting soil care practices that intensify the involvement of practitioners with soil's temporality. Reading these ways of relating to soil ways of making time for 'care time', helps to reveal a diversity of more-than-human interdependent temporalities, disrupting the anthropocentric appeal of predominant timescales of technoscientific futurity and their reductive notion of innovation.

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Section: Soil Science Futures In An Epoch Of Ecological Breakdownmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making time for soil: Technoscientific futurity and the pace of care

2015

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“…This period in agricultural research was called Bthe production wave^by Bouma and Hartemink (2002), although they timed it from . As a consequence, inputs per hectare and yields increased very rapidly, obviously with the usual built-in delay of effects in commercial agriculture.…”

Section: General Trends In Agricultural Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The production wave period was followed by a strong focus on the environmental impact of agriculture (Struik, 1992): the environmental wave. According to Bouma and Hartemink (2002) it lasted from 1970-1980, but in potato science the period from 1980-1999 is more appropriate. Supra-national, national and local governments all over Europe were worried about the environmental impact of excessive use of crop protectants, the leaching of nitrate associated with the current supply of fertilisers and the desiccation of (agro-)ecosystems caused by extensive use of water in crop production.…”

Section: General Trends In Agricultural Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

Trends in Agricultural Science with Special Reference to Research and Development in the Potato Sector

Struik¹

2006

Potato Research

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This contribution highlights some developments in agricultural science in general and plant science in particular. It also describes some changes in the way society looks upon science and scientists and in the way scientists play their role in the scientific community. The paper provides a very brief overview of the achievements of potato science and the challenges ahead. It stresses the need for proper knowledge chains and scientific platforms to make better use of the resources provided to potato research. It also indicates where the European Association for Potato Research could play a significant role. The views expressed are those of the author and not based on an extensive literature review.

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“…There have been many ideas and reactions to the changes in soil science that were largely governed by changes in society (Bouma and Hartemink, 2002). Some searched for a soil science identity (Wild, 1989;Hudson, 1992) and there have been appeals for a new type of soil scientist (Warkentin, 1999), and a new type of soil science that is more holistic (Bridges and Catizzone, 1996).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%