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	<title>Earth System Visioning &#187; soil</title>
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		<title>How better understand and model the multiple and interlinked roles of soils in our planet life, to make the best use of them?</title>
		<link>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/08/how-better-understand-and-model-the-multiple-and-interlinked-roles-of-soils/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard@CSFD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good way to assess the societal impact of soils on all these aspects is to estimate it in cost/benefits terms.
For example, what are the costs of mismanaging soils (loss of carbon, decrease of food production, flash floods, dams siltation, irrigated fields salinisation &#8230;) and thus, what are the costs avoided when soils are managed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the feedback of ecosystems and in particular soils to changing climate?</title>
		<link>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/what-is-the-feedback-of-ecosystems-and-in-particular-soils-to-changing-climate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mreichstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[carbon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Current models vastly disagree on the fate on the current terrestrial carbon sink, leading to large uncertainties regarding climate-carbon cycle feedback? Recent research indicates that soils contain more than 4 times as much carbon as the atmosphere (>3000 Pg), and soil carbon processes are clearly understudied.
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		<title>What are the consequences of ground water reduction on agriculture?</title>
		<link>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/08/consequences-of-ground-water-reduction-on-agriculture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anilbharat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human Health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soil]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I asked this question and I am concerned that population is growing therefor its food demand and more agriculture productivity means somehow losing soil strength and soil water (soil productivity). This may affect climate regionally. How to address such problem in next decade. If human want to survive than we have to address such question [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what is the linkage between agricultural activities, biodiversity loss and sediment and nutrient fluxes into water systems and the overall impact of environmental degradation  on the survival of humankind?</title>
		<link>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/09/linkage-between-agriculture-biodiversity-loss-nutrient-fluxes-water-systems-degradation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>basilmugy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land-use]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soil]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agricultural production is a predominant activity of the majority of the rural poor in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, due to land degradation as a result of inappropriate farming techniques, there is continued loss of Biodiversity and soil fertility through soil and water erosion and these eroded materials (sediments and nutrient fluxes) end up choking water systems, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How much land cover change (population growth) can be tolerated by ‘GAIA’ before irreversibilty takes its path?</title>
		<link>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/08/how-much-landcover-change-population-growth-can-be-tolerated-by-gaia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/08/how-much-landcover-change-population-growth-can-be-tolerated-by-gaia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember, soils and genes can be lost only once (irreversible). Soil losses reduce the planet’s capacity to store essential plant nutrients (all cations) and carbon (humus), both intimately linked to the presence of clay and, thus, intact soils. The number one driver behind this issue is growth in number of and consumption by humans.
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		<title>How water is transformed globally between the ocean, land and the atmosphere?</title>
		<link>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/07/water-ocean-land-atmosphere/</link>
		<comments>http://www.icsu-visioning.org/2009/07/water-ocean-land-atmosphere/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wuji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Earth System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atmosphere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oceans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[precipitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Water is the most important nature factor for human life. It influences the human life directly. It is also the main driver of the climate. Although we do not have the global water budget information yet, but very close to have it. What we need is from space to monitor globally the atmosphere water content, [...]]]></description>
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