Global Soil Security

Part I: Rationale for soil security.- Soil security - a rationale.- Soil security: dimensions.- Part II: Capability.- Soil capability: exploring the functional potentials of soils.- Distinguishing between capability and condition.- The value of soil capability in land surface modeling.- Soil capability for the United States now and into the future.- Quantifying soil capability: GlobalSoilMap.- Testing the links between soil security, sustainable land management practices and land evaluation.- Part III: Condition.- General concepts of valuing and caring for soil.- Soil health: challenges and opportunities.- Using soil survey to assess and predict soil condition and change.- Root-microbe interactions in response to soil conditions.- Securing our soil in intense monoculture cropping systems.- Soil organic carbon stocks and soil respiration in tropical secondary forests in southern Mexico.- Simulating impacts of bioenergy sorghum residue return on soil organic carbon and greenhouse gas emissions using the Daycent model.- Cover crop effects on soil carbon and nitrogen under bioenergy sorghum crops.- Part IV: Capital.- Energy, economics, climate change and soil security.- Understanding soils' contribution to ecosystem services provision to inform farm system analysis.- The dollars and cents of soil health.- The value of soil's contributions to ecosystem services.- Economics of land degradation contribution to soil security in Eurasia.- Social license and soil security.- Part V: Connectivity.- Soil renaissance and the connection to land managers.- Links between soil security and the influence of soils on human health.- Soil contamination and human health: a major challenge for global soil security.- The measurement of soil security in terms of human health: examples and ideas.- The meta soil model: an integrative multi-model framework for soil security.- Integrating new perspectives to address global soil security: ideas from integral ecology.- Applying the meta soil model: the connections between soil security and water security in a permanent protection area in Brazil.- Bridging the research-management gap to restore ecosystem function and social resilience.- Engendering connectivity to soil through aesthetics.- The role of master gardeners in providing horticulture education to Marion County residents.- Soil -water-food nexus: a public policy perspective.- Whose "security" is important?: communicating risk about soil to a diverse population.- Part VI: Codification.- Save the soil to save the planet.- Protection of the soil resource in the Brazilian environmental legislation.- Creating incentives for improved soil health through the federal crop insurance program.- U.S. farm programs and the impacts on national and international soil security.- Soil security for agricultural productivity: the policy disconnect and a promising future.- Securitisation.- The place of soil in international government policy.- Translating soil science knowledge to publicpolicy.- Synthesis: goals to achieve soil security.