Soil Taxonomy International planning Planning for the Future Concept that design and development should be in harmony with nature A new awareness is arising that national security should be redefined in terms of improving uses of natural resources former Chief of Staff Brown instead of squandering them Planning for the Future FAO Food and Agriculture Organization World Soil Map 1 5 000 000 Soil Taxonomy for world wide use Slide set by Van Wambeke 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 CRIES Comprehensive Resource Inventory Evaluation System Soils information integrated into the decision making process Policy decisions are based on resource inventory data For example Dominican Republic World Soil Geography Unit soil map digitized map into resource production units Benchmark Project Univ of Puerto Rico and Hawaii locating new agricultural experiment stations primarily to test soil crop responses The Benchmark project permits the technology transfer of information from one Typic Paleudult to another in a different country or on a different continent Soil Quantification Tragedy of the commons Soils will be quantified in more and more detail and soil maps will be made at larger scales with more detail with increasing intensity of field examination to quantify soil variability Concept described by Hardin 1968 and previously by others suggesting that human beings are incapable of managing there resources when population and exploitation are uncontrolled The commons is a community pasture forest soil area or other resource that can be used by all 18 Tragedy of the commons Contemporary construction The commons system works well when the community population is small but productivity and environmental quality decline when the population expands and exploits the commons excessively Such as Mexico City Park Fig 78 in Olson s book Will become part of the archeological record to be judged by future scientists Increased data are becoming available about soils and their distributions in landscapes which could help wiser decisions to be made in the future than have been made in the past 19
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