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Author : Rattan Lal
Release : 2018
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Book Rating : 693/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Soil and Sustainable Development Goals by : Rattan Lal
Download or read book Soil and Sustainable Development Goals written by Rattan Lal. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rattan Lal
Release : 2018-07-27
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Book Rating : 253/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Soil and Sustainable Development Goals by : Rattan Lal
Download or read book Soil and Sustainable Development Goals written by Rattan Lal. This book was released on 2018-07-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hiroshan Hettiarachchi
Release : 2020-11-23
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Rating : 833/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Organic Waste Composting through Nexus Thinking by : Hiroshan Hettiarachchi
Download or read book Organic Waste Composting through Nexus Thinking written by Hiroshan Hettiarachchi. This book was released on 2020-11-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organic waste composting is another excellent example to demonstrate the power and the benefits of nexus thinking. Even though organic waste composting itself is not a new topic, those who want to start a new project or align an ongoing project with nexus thinking, find it difficult to gather the necessary information. With nine case studies from four continents, this book aims to fill above gap in literature. While current literature on composting is often found to be limited to either soil/agriculture sector or waste management sector, this book presents a combined point of view. This open access book starts with an introductory chapter that describes the need to bring the waste management aspects and soil nutrient management aspects of compost production into one integrated theme. The relevance of nexus thinking and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are also presented in this introduction. The first three chapters after the introduction covers composting from the solid waste management and its policy aspects, taking examples from three developing countries. The next three examples are mostly about the benefits composting can provide to the soil and agriculture. These examples are also from three developing countries, but with a mixture of urban as well as rural settings. Last three chapters present more insight into the latest developments taking examples from Europe, as well as new methods adapted from the traditional styles from Africa.
Author : Stephan Hülsmann
Release : 2018-04-13
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Rating : 638/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Managing Water, Soil and Waste Resources to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals by : Stephan Hülsmann
Download or read book Managing Water, Soil and Waste Resources to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals written by Stephan Hülsmann. This book was released on 2018-04-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how integrated management of environmental resources via a Nexus Approach can help to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It takes a process-oriented view on what should or needs to be done to implement a Nexus Approach and how this relates to SDGs. After sketching the background and conceptual outline, contributions to the book explore key aspects of monitoring and implementation. Specifically, they: focus on the importance of monitoring resource use and how to advance it at the international level to support SDG implementation, exemplify the resources perspective on the nexus approach by exploring how to close the nitrogen cycle and stay within planetary boundaries, elaborate on proven and emerging strategies for nexus implementation, highlighting means to enhance, monitor and analyse stakeholder participation, explain how the horizontal and vertical nexus dimensions interact and can support SDG implementation. The book sheds new light on key aspects of the interrelation between SDGs and the Nexus Approach and provides specific recommendations how to advance it.
Author : Damien J. Field
Release : 2016-11-01
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 946/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Global Soil Security by : Damien J. Field
Download or read book Global Soil Security written by Damien J. Field. This book was released on 2016-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the concept of soil security and its five dimensions: Capability, Capital, Condition, Connectivity and Codification. These five dimensions make it possible to understand soil's role in delivering ecosystem services and to quantify soil resource by measuring, mapping, modeling and managing it. Each dimension refers to a specific aspect: contribution to global challenges (Capability), value of the soil (Capital), current state of the soil (Condition), how people are connected to the soil (Connectivity) and development of good policy (Codification). This book considers soil security as an integral part of meeting the ongoing challenge to maintain human health and secure our planet's sustainability. The concept of soil security helps to achieve the need to maintain and improve the world’s soil for the purpose of producing food, fiber and freshwater, and contributing to energy and climate sustainability. At the same time it helps to maintain biodiversity and protects ecosystem goods and services.
