Sustaining Soil Productivity in Response to Global Climate Change (eBook)

Science, Policy, and Ethics

Thomas J. Sauer, John Norman, Mannava V. K. Sivakumar (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9780470960233 (ISBN)

Infos

Sustaining Soil Productivity in Response to Global Climate Change: Science, Policy, and Ethics is a multi-disciplinary volume exploring the ethical, political and social issues surrounding the stewardship of our vital soil resources. Based on topics presented by an international group of experts at a conference convened through support of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, chapters include scientific studies on carbon sequestration, ecosystem services, maintaining soil fertility, and the effects of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as ethical issues ranging from allocation of land use to policies needed for climate change adaptation and mitigation. Bringing together the latest research in soil science and climatology, Sustaining Soil Productivity in Response to Global Climate Change is a valuable resource for soil and plant scientists, agronomists and environmental scientists, as well as agricultural and natural resources engineers and economists, environmental policy makers and conservationists. Key Features: Written by an international group of authors representing a cross-section of scientists, thought leaders, and policy-makers Includes chapters on the potential effects of climate change on forest soil carbon, microbial function, and the role of soils and biogeochemistry in the climate and earth system Explores historical development of land use ethics and stewardship

Autor

Thomas J. Sauer is a Research Soil Scientist for the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Ames, Iowa. John M. Norman is Emeritus Professor of Soil Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Mannava V. K. Sivakumar is Director of the Climate Prediction and Adaptation Branch of the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

Inhalt

Foreward
Sally Collins

Introduction
Thomas J. Sauer, John M. Norman, and Mannava V. K. Sivakumar

Chapter 1, Science, Ethics, and the Historical Roots of
Our Ecological Crisis - Was White Right?
Thomas J. Sauer and Michael P. Nelson

Chapter 2, Intellectual Inertia: An Uneasy Tension between Collective Validation
of the Known and Encouraging Exploration of the Unknown
John M. Norman

Chapter 3, The Ethics of Soil: Stewardship, Motivation and Moral Framing
Paul B. Thompson

Chapter 4, Aldo Leopold and the Land Ethic: An Argument for Sustaining Soils
Susan L. Flader

Chapter 5, Rural Response to Climate Change in Poor Countries: Ethics,
Policies and Scientific Support Systems in their Agricultural Environment
C.J. (Kees) Stigter

Chapter 6, Soil and Human Health
Eiliv Steinnes

Chapter 7, Agroecological Approaches to Help 'Climate-Proof' Agriculture While
Raising Productivity in the 21st Century
Norman Uphoff

Chapter 8, Ecological Integrity and Biological Integrity: The Right To Food
Laura Westra

Chapter 9, Soil Ecosystem Services: Sustaining Returns on Investment into
Natural Capital
Brent E. Clothier, Alistair J. Hall, Markus Deurer, Steven R. Green, and Alec D. Mackay

Chapter 10, Climate and Land Degradation
Mannava V.K. Sivakumar

Chapter 11, The Role of Soils and Biogeochemistry in the Climate and Earth System
Elisabeth A. Holland

Chapter 12, Net Agricultural Greenhouse Gases: Mitigation
Strategies and Implications
Claudia Wagner-Riddle and Alfons Weersink

Chapter 13, Overview on Response of Global Soil Carbon Pools to Climate and
Land Use Changes
Thomas Eglin, Philippe Ciais, Shi Long Piao, Pierre Barré, Valentin Bellassen, Patricia Cadule, Claire Chenu, Thomas Gasser, Markus Reichstein, and Pete Smith

Chapter 14, Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Microbial Function in Soil -
The Effect of Elevated CO2 Concentration
Paolo Nannipieri

Chapter 15, Impacts of Climate Change on Forest Soil Carbon: Uncertainties
and Lessons From Afforestation Case Studies
Philip J. Polglase and Keryn I. Paul

Chapter 16, The Effect of Forest Management on Soil Organic Carbon
Giustino Tonon, Silvia Dezi, Maurizio Ventura, Francesca Scandellari

Rezensionen

"This book provides a useful primer in ethics and the
philosophy of science in the context of soils. I enjoyed reading it
and it is refreshing to see the attention given to the interaction
between science and policy." (European Journal of
Soil Science, 1 August 2012

"There is also a useful body of information that provides
a basic summary of the state of knowledge and thought about climate
change in 2009. For both aspects, it is worth adding to one's
library." (Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 11
July 2013)

"This is one of those rare books - a conference publication that
is full of pleasant surprises ... In summary, this is a
thought-provoking publication, which reinforces the notion that
soils confer real biophysical limits to the expansion of the market
economy." (Expl Agric, 2012)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.5.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: Accelerate • Agriculture • appreciated • Bodenkunde • Change • Climate • Critical • Degradation • demands • ecosystem • Food • Global • global scale • growing • Influencing • intense pressure • Landwirtschaft • Local • Policy • Potential • processes • Production • resources • scientists • Soil • System
• ISBN-13: 9780470960233 / 9780470960233