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Soil and Sustainable Development Goals

Rattan Lal, Rainer Horn, Takashi Kosaki (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

VII, 196 Seiten

2018
Schweizerbart'sche, E. (Verlag)
978-3-510-65425-3 (ISBN)

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In 2015, the UN formulated seventeen global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), among them ending poverty, eliminating hunger, protecting the planet and ensuring peace and prosperity. Although judicious management of soils is critical to advancing most of these goals, the word soil is not once mentioned in any of these laudable goals. SDG#15, for example, mentions land degradation but does not specifically focus on soils. In line with previous UN programs, SDGs thus reflect an utter lack of awareness of the importance of the most basic of all natural resources on which depends all terrestrial life - soils. Consequently, this book aims to document the importance of soil and soil protection to reaching these Sustainable Development Goals. This fifteen-chapter book, authored by experienced and knowledgeable researchers from around the world, is a synthesis of the knowledge and state-of-the-science, linking soil properties and processes to specific SDGs. The volume highlights individual soil related aspects of these SDGs, such as the contribution of soil science, soil management and use, measures to minimize erosion, climatic effects, carbon sequestration by soils, soil restoration, the role hydrology plays in sustainable soil management, ways to preserve soil structure of fertile volcanic soils. Soil and water pollution, which must be controlled in order to preserve soil and environmental health are also discussed. Other chapters deal with how to convince the general public of the usefulness of the SDGs and point out how the public may contribute to them, ways to manage Chernozems and the role IUSS plays in furthering and implementing the soil related measures are also discussed herein.

Erscheinungsdatum	31.07.2018
Reihe/Serie	GeoEcology essay
Zusatzinfo	US-ISBN 1-59326-269-8
Verlagsort	Stuttgart
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Gewicht	450 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
Schlagworte	Agenda 2030 • food security • Post-2015 Development Agenda • SDG • soil science • Sustainable Development Goals • UN • United Nations
ISBN-10	3-510-65425-0 / 3510654250
ISBN-13	978-3-510-65425-3 / 9783510654253
Zustand	Neuware