Reshaping How We Think about Soil Security

Katsutoshi Mizuta, Sabine Grunwald

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Abstract

The soil security framework has been conceptualized and views soil as a resource that needs to be secured to avoid or minimize adverse environmental/anthropogenic impacts and undesirable consequences for people. Our critical literature review suggests that measurements, estimations, simulations, or digital mapping of soil properties fall short in assessing soil security and health. Instead, soil security that considers soil ecosystem functionality based on regionalized and optimized relationships between targeted functions and site-specific soil environmental conditions allows for the discernment of actual and attainable efficiency levels for observation sites. We discuss the pros and cons that undergird the paradigm shift toward a pedo-econometric modeling approach. Such a multiperspectival approach to soil security allows for simultaneous interpretations from economic, pedogenic, agronomic, environmental, biotic/habitat, and other perspectives. This approach is demonstrated by modeling total nutrient efficiencies in complex multi-use soilscapes with diverging soil environmental interests and concerns.

Original languageEnglish
Article number74
JournalSoil Systems
Volume6
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2022

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Keywords

  • data envelopment analysis
  • integral soil security
  • quantification methods
  • soil functions
  • soil health

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Soil Science
  • Earth-Surface Processes

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