Soil-Value: Valuing and enhancing soil infrastructure to improve societal sustainability and resilience

土壤价值：重视和加强土壤基础设施，以提高社会可持续性和复原力

• 批准号: EP/N030532/1
• 负责人: Jessica Davies
• 金额: $ 96.23万
• 依托单位: Lancaster University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FN030532%2F1
• 关键词: Soil; Value; Valuing; enhancing; soil

Soils are a life support system for global society and our planet. Soils directly provide the vast majority of our food; they are the largest store of carbon in the earth system; and they regulate water quality and quantity reducing the risk of floods, droughts and pollution. In this way, soils provide a natural form of infrastructure that is critical to supporting both rural and urban communities and economies. Despite the criticality of this infrastructure, we do not understand: - the current delivery of services in terms of food production, water flow and quality regulation and carbon storage - from which soils do these services derive and what value do they have for rural/urban communities? - how the decisions we make regarding land drainage, tillage, crop choice, livestocking, tree planting, deforestation, and urban development influence the capability of the soil to provide its' multiple services, or how these decisions may interact. - how resilient our soil infrastructure will be to a changing climate and the increasing pressures to produce more food from less land that our global society faces in trying to feed a population of 9 billion by 2050, and ongoing urbanisation.This lack of understanding stems from a lack of integration across traditionally separate scientific fields that relate to soil infrastructure. Soil functioning is the product of hydrological, physical (soil erosion and weathering), biological and chemical processes, and as such it requires knowledge to be combined across these fields. This fellowship will draw together these disciplines to create a new computer model that will improve our understanding of soil infrastructures, their value to society and their resilience. This model will be used to explore how future scenarios will influence the provision of food-water-carbon services to our societies. Uncertainty and risk analyses will be performed to provide a coherent robust evidence base for decision-making. This will allow us to find ways to enhance our soils to provide more benefits for our societies, improving sustainability and well-being.This fellowship aims to:a. Assess the value of soils as a natural infrastructure that protects and enhances both rural and urban areas through food production, water regulation and carbon storage.b. Estimate the resilience of soil infrastructure to climate change and changing land-use pressures and explore the potential for managing soil infrastructures to mitigate risks and enhance their value and resilience.c. Transform the perceived value of soil infrastructure in communities and businesses, and enhance decision-making capabilities across sectors to help create sustainable resilient societies.The outputs of this fellowship will include:- Scientific insights into soil functioning, sustainability and resilience.- The first valuations of soil as an infrastructure, it's capacity for enhancement, and it's vulnerability to a changing climate and increasing land use pressures.- Estimates of the uncertainties surrounding these estimations, and how this influences to the risk to delivery of food, water and carbon services.- Quantitative predictive modelling frameworks that can support sustainable, resilient decision making across food, water and environment sectors.- Deepened engagement between scientists, businesses, policy makers, and NGOs.

土壤是全球社会和我们星球的生命支持系统。土壤直接提供我们绝大多数食物；它们是地球系统中最大的碳储存量。他们调节水质和数量，以减少洪水，干旱和污染的风险。这样，土壤提供了一种自然形式的基础设施，这对于支持农村和城市社区和经济至关重要。尽管这种基础设施至关重要，但我们不理解： - 目前在食品生产，水流，质量调节和碳存储方面提供服务的服务 - 这些服务从中获得了这些服务，以及它们对农村/城市社区的价值？ - 我们如何做出关于土地排水，耕作，作物选择，牲畜，植树，森林砍伐和城市发展的决定如何影响土壤提供其“多重服务”的能力，或者这些决策如何相互作用。 - 我们的土壤基础设施将对气候变化以及越来越多的压力产生更多的食物，从较少的土地产生更多的食物，而不是我们的全球社会在2050年到2050年养活90亿人口以及正在进行的城市化方面所面临的食物，这是由于缺乏与土壤基础结构相关的传统分开科学领域缺乏整合的理解。土壤功能是水文，物理（土壤侵蚀和风化），生物学和化学过程的产物，因此需要在这些领域组合知识。该奖学金将汇集这些学科，以创建一个新的计算机模型，以提高我们对土壤基础设施，对社会的价值和韧性的理解。该模型将用于探索未来的情况如何影响我们社会提供食品 - 水碳服务。将进行不确定性和风险分析，以提供决策的坚固稳定证据基础。这将使我们能够找到增强土壤的方法，为我们的社会提供更多好处，改善可持续性和福祉。该奖学金的目的是：通过食品生产，水调节和碳存储来评估土壤作为自然基础设施的价值，可保护和增强农村和城市地区。估计土壤基础设施对气候变化和改变土地使用压力的弹性，并探索管理土壤基础设施以减轻风险并提高其价值和弹性的潜力。转变土壤基础设施在社区和企业中的价值，并增强各个部门的决策能力，以帮助创建可持续的弹性社会。该团契的产出包括： - 对土壤功能，可持续性和恢复能力的科学见解。估计围绕这些估计的不确定性以及这如何影响食品，水和碳服务的风险。-定量预测建模框架可以支持跨食物，水和环境领域的可持续性，弹性决策。

项目成果

On the evaluation of soil erosion models: Are we doing enough?

• DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102898
• 发表时间: 2019-10-01
• 期刊: EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS
• 影响因子: 12.1
• 作者: Batista, Pedro V. G.;Davies, Jessica;Quinton, John N.
• 通讯作者: Quinton, John N.

Modelling spatially distributed soil losses and sediment yield in the upper Grande River Basin - Brazil

• DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2017.05.025
• 发表时间: 2017-10
• 期刊: Catena
• 影响因子: 6.2
• 作者: P. Batista;M. L. Silva;Bárbara Pereira Christofaro Silva;N. Curi;I. T. Bueno;F. W. A. Júnior;J. Davies;J. Quinton

Soil systems as critical infrastructure: do we know enough about soil system resilience and vulnerability to secure our soils?

土壤系统作为重要的基础设施：我们对土壤系统的弹性和脆弱性是否有足够的了解来保护我们的土壤？

• DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-20273
• 发表时间: 2020
• 作者: Davies J

How the composition of sandstone matrices affects rates of soil formation

砂岩基质的成分如何影响土壤形成速率

• DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115337
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Geoderma
• 影响因子: 6.1
• 作者: Evans D

Using pedological knowledge to improve sediment source apportionment in tropical environments

• DOI: 10.1007/s11368-018-2199-5
• 发表时间: 2019-09-01
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS
• 影响因子: 3.6
• 作者: Batista, Pedro V. G.;Laceby, J. Patrick;Quinton, John N.
• 通讯作者: Quinton, John N.