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Scientific Basis for Soil Protection in the European Community (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
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Scientific Basis for Soil Protection in the European Community (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
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PH. BOURDEAU Directorate-General Science. Research and Development.
Commission of the European Communities. Brussels. Belgium We are
living on a unique planet, the only one in the solar system where
life exists. The very existence of life has modified the physical
and chemical environment of the earth, its atmosphere and oceans,
in a way that makes life sustainable. This system with its complex
cybernetic mechanisms has been named GAIA by Lovelock. Man has
always interfered with it on a more or less limited scale. This
interference is now reaching global proportions such as climate
modifications resulting from CO and trace gas 2 accumulation in the
atmosphere or the destruction of stratospheric ozone, not to speak
of global radioactive contamination. GAIA will probably prevail as
a living system but it probably does not give much importance to
man's survival as such, and it is man that has to take care of his
own survival. In the ecosystem of Planet Earth, soils are the thin
interface between lithosphere and atmosphere which constitutes the
essential substrate for the terrestrial biosphere, the productivity
of which far exceeds that of the oceans, even though the latter
cover a much larger area than the continents. Soils themselves are
complex systems. They develop through weathering of minerals, are
colonised by living organisms which in turn modify their substrate
making it suitable for other organisms. This induces a primary
ecological succession which eventually reaches a climax, in
equilibrium between climate, soil and the biological communities.
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