Towards Sustainability of Soils and Groundwater for Society
(Soils 2020)
The goal of this CRA is to produce the necessary knowledge and propose solutions to maintain well-functioning soils and groundwater systems in the Critical Zone1, or rehabilitate them where degraded, through:
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Better understanding of the long- and shorter-time dynamics and functions of soils and groundwater, impacts from societal (including economics) decisions, integrative management practices, public policies, and how these systems have been transformed; and,
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Providing avenues, pathways, and narratives toward transformation of management practices of the whole soil and groundwater systems through a fundamental shift of socio-economic actors’ practices and related-decisions making processes.
Theme1
Climate change, carbon cycle, and sustainability of soils and groundwater
Theme 2
Highly anthropized ecosystems (including large natural resources extraction)
Theme 3
Reconciling short and long-term process to maintain or improve ecosystem functions.
Funding Agencies:
FAPESP(Brazil), AllEnvi(France), ANR(France),
CNR-DSSTTA(Italy), JST(Japan),
QNRF(Qatar), RFBR(Russia), KAUST(Saudi Arabia), NSTC(Taiwan),
NSF(USA)
More information:
Taiwan's Action:
(ABRESO) Abandonment and rebound: Societal views on landscape- and land-use change and their impacts on water and soils
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Jr-Chuan Huang (National Taiwan University)
(BLUEGEM) Biosphere and Land Use Exchanges with Groundwater and soils in Earth system Models
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Min-Hui Lo (National Taiwan University)
(INCLUSIVE) Stakeholder-supported decision making for sustainable conjunctive management of soil and groundwater
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Hwa-Lung Yu (National Taiwan University)