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Book (stand-alone)Status of the World’s Soil Resources. Chapter 7: The impact of soil change on ecosystem services 2016
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No results found.This is Chapter 7, "The impact of soil change on ecosystem services," of the report Status of the World’s Soil Resources.Soils are now recognized to be in the ‘front line’ of global environmental change and we need to be able to predict how they will respond to changing climate, vegetation, erosion and pollution. Although only a thin layer of material at the Earth’s surface, soils like many interfaces play a pivotal role in regulating t he flow and transfer of mass and energy between the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere. Soils help regulate the Earth’s physical processes such as water and energy balances, and act as the biogeochemical engine at the heart of many of the Earth system cycles and processes on which life depends. All these phenomena are discussed in this chapter.
The full report has been divided into sections and individual chapters for ease of downloading:
- Introductory information
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: The role of soils in ecosystem processes
- Chapter 3: Global Soil Resources
- Chapter 4: Soils and Humans
- Chapter 5: Drivers of global s oil change
- Chapter 6: Global soil status, processes and trends
- Chapter 7: Soil change: impacts and responses
- Chapter 8: Governance and policy responses to soil change
- Chapter 9: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in Africa South of the Sahara
- Chapter 10: Regional Assessment of Soil Change in Asia
- Chapter 11: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in Europe and Eurasia
- Chapter 12: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Chapter 13: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in the Near East and North Africa < li>Chapter 14: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in North America
- Chapter 15: Regional Assessment of Soil Change in the Southwest Pacific
- Chapter 16: Regional Assessment of Soil Change in Antarctica
- Annex: Soil groups, characteristics, distribution and ecosystem services Glossary of Technical Terms
- Authors and affiliations
Also available: Technical Summary of the Status of the World’s Soil Resources.
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Book (stand-alone)Status of the World’s Soil Resources. Chapter 13: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in the Near East and North Africa 2016
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No results found.This is Chapter 13, "Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in the Near East and North Africa," of the report Status of the World’s Soil Resources.The Near East and North Africa (NENA) region has a land area of approximately 14.9 million km2, nearly all of which is hyper-arid, arid or semi-arid. The region faces three climatic constraints: aridity, recurrent drought, and desertification, the latter also in part human induced.. Large areas of Libya, Egypt, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are entirely desert Various aspects of soil change are discussed for the region. National case studies of soil change are presented for Iran and Tunisia.
The full report has been divided into sections and individual chapters for ease of downloading:
- Introductory information
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: The role of soils in ecosystem processes
- Chapter 3: Global Soil Resources
- Chapter 4: Soils and Humans
- Chapter 5: Drivers of global soil change
- Chapter 6: Global soil status, processes and trends
- Chapter 7: Soil change: impacts and responses
- Chapter 8: Governance and policy responses to soil change
- Chapter 9: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in Africa South of the Sahara
- Chapter 10: Regional Assessment of Soil Change in Asia
- Chapter 11: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in Europe and Eurasia
- Chapter 12: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Chapter 13: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in the Near East and North Africa
- Chapter 14: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in North America
- Chapter 15: Regional Assessment of Soil Change in the Southwest Pacific
- Chapter 16: Regional Assessment of Soil Change in Antarctica
- Annex: Soil groups, characteristics, distribution and ecosystem services
- Glossary of Technical Terms
- Authors a nd affiliations
Also available: Technical Summary of the Status of the World’s Soil Resources.
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Book (stand-alone)Status of the World’s Soil Resources. Chapter 15: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in the Southwest Pacific 2016
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No results found.This is Chapter 15, "Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in North America," of the report Status of the World’s Soil Resources. The Southwest Pacific region includes the 22 island nations of the Pacific, New Zealand and Australia). The landscapes of the region are very diverse ranging from a large continental land mass through to tens of thousands of small islands across the enormous expanse of the southwest Pacific Ocean. There are extensi ve ancient flat lands through to some of the youngest and most tectonically active landscapes on the planet. Temperature and rainfall ranges are large because of the breadth of latitudes and elevations. As a consequence, the soils of the region are also diverse. The strongly weathered soils in humid tropical areas and the vast expanses of old soils across the Australian continent are particularly susceptible to disturbance and this is where some of the more intractable problems of soil managemen t occur today. Case studies for soil change are given for Australia, New Zealand and Atoll islands in the Pacific.The full report has been divided into sections and individual chapters for ease of downloading:
- Introductory information
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: The role of soils in ecosystem processes
- < a href="http://www.fao.org/3/a-bc592e.pdf">Chapter 3: Global Soil Resources
- Chapter 4: Soils and Humans
- Chapter 5: Drivers of global soil change
- Chapter 6: Global soil status, processes and trends
- Chapter 7: Soil change: impacts and responses
- Chapter 8: Governance and policy responses to soil change
- Chapter 9: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in Africa South of the Sahara
- Chapter 10: Regional Assessment of Soil Change in Asia
- Chapter 11: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in Europe and Eurasia
- Chapter 12: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Chapter 13: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in the Near East and North Africa
- Chapter 14: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in North America
- Chapter 15: Regional Assessment of Soil Change in the Southwest Pacific Chapter 16: Regional Assessment of Soil Change in Antarctica
- Annex: Soil groups, characteristics, distribution and ecosystem services
- Glossary of Technical Terms
- Authors and affiliations
Also available: Technical Summa ry of the Status of the World’s Soil Resources.
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