Mechanisms of Landscape Rehabilitation and Sustainability

Author(s): Narcin Palavan-Unsal, Valentin Kefeli and Winfried Blum

DOI: 10.2174/978160805168711101010091

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Soils for Sustaining Global Food Production

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Abstract

SHS investigation development is considered from the geographical and historical viewpoint. 3 stages are described. Within Stage 1 the work was carried out in the Department of the Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka where the scientific discovery had been made. At Stage 2 the interest to SHS arose in different cities and towns of the former USSR. Within Stage 3 SHS entered the international scene. Now SHS processes and products are being studied in more than 50 countries.

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This chapter summarizes the soil functions for human civilization. The most important is the way of the soil preservation. Land quality is considered from six point of view including agriculture, forestry, human well being, sustainability of eco-systems. The role of soil in the process of the sustainability of human civilization is a main goal of this chapter. Thus, soil is a leading component of bio- sphere, where plants are the direct link between solar energy (photosynthesis) and humus production in the soil.

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