Achieving Sustainable Earth Futures in the Anthropocene by Including Local Communities in Critical Zone Science
Achieving Sustainable Earth Futures in the Anthropocene by Including Local Communities in Critical Zone Science
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10.1029/2022ef003448
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2023-09
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Larissa A. Naylor;Jennifer A. J. Dungait;Ying Zheng;Sarah J. Buckerfield;Sophie M. Green;David M. Oliver;Hongyan Liu;Jian Peng;Chenglong Tu;Gan‐lin Zhang;Xinyu Zhang;T. Quine;Susan Waldron;Paul D. Hallett
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Larissa A. Naylor;Jennifer A. J. Dungait;Ying Zheng;Sarah J. Buckerfield;Sophie M. Green;David M. Oliver;Hongyan Liu;Jian Peng;Chenglong Tu;Gan‐lin Zhang;Xinyu Zhang;T. Quine;Susan Waldron;Paul D. Hallett
临界区科学（CZS）探索从地下水或腐岩界面的底部到植被顶部的景观的深层演变，该区域支持所有陆地生命。在这里，我们提出了一个CZS作为一门学科进一步发展的框架，以自然系统中的第一代CZO和人类改造系统中的第二代CZO为基础，将人类行为纳入第三代CZO中，以获得更全面的理解。这一概念在中英CZO计划（2016-2020）中得到了验证，该计划在中国各地建立了四个不同岩性的CZO。除了传统的CZO对土壤资源、生态地球化学循环和水文学的跨尺度洞察之外，对农民和当地政府官员的调查还深入了解了人类与环境的相互作用以及影响当地农民社会经济生计的关键压力。这些经验与CZS数据相结合，确定了知识交流（KE）机会，以揭示土地-水-粮食关系中的各种因素，这些因素可以直接改善当地生计和环境条件，例如减少化肥使用，促进可持续发展目标（SDG）和环境政策。通过双向的地方KE，当地的文化背景和社会经济因素更容易显现，同时政策和地方行动的环境理由也更容易显现，以提高农业实践的可持续性。寻求解决方案来理解和补救由人类决策造成的CZ退化需要共同设计CZS，突出人类行为和生活在人类改造的CZO中的人的意见。我们展示了一种新的跨学科的CZO方法，以实现可持续的地球未来，可以改善研究与压力环境中的社区及其政府的实际需求的一致性，支持社会生态和行星健康研究议程，并提高实现可持续发展目标的能力。
Critical Zone Science (CZS) explores the deep evolution of landscapes from the base of the groundwater or the saprolite‐rock interface to the top of vegetation, the zone that supports all terrestrial life. Here we propose a framework for CZS to evolve further as a discipline, building on 1st generation CZOs in natural systems and 2nd generation CZOs in human‐modified systems, to incorporate human behaviour for more holistic understanding in a 3rd generation of CZOs. This concept was tested in the China‐UK CZO programme (2016–2020) that established four CZOs across China on different lithologies. Beyond conventional CZO insights into soil resources, biogeochemical cycling and hydrology across scales, surveys of farmers and local government officials led to insights into human‐environment interactions and key pressures affecting the socio‐economic livelihoods of local farmers. These learnings combined with the CZS data identified knowledge exchange (KE) opportunities to unravel diverse factors within the Land‐Water‐Food Nexus, that could directly improve local livelihoods and environmental conditions, such as reduction in fertilizer use, contributing toward Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and environmental policies. Through two‐way local KE, the local cultural context and socio‐economic considerations were more readily apparent alongside the environmental rationale for policy and local action to improve the sustainability of farming practices. Seeking solutions to understand and remediate CZ degradation caused by human‐decision making requires the co‐design of CZS that foregrounds human behavior and the opinions of those living in human modified CZOs. We show how a new transdisciplinary CZO approach for sustainable Earth futures can improve alignment of research with the practical needs of communities in stressed environments and their governments, supporting social‐ecological and planetary health research agendas and improving capacity to achieve SDGs.