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Digital Soil Information System for Ireland – Scoping Study

Daly, Karen M.
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Fealy, Reamonn
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Soils, Environment, Digital soil information, mapping
Date
01/09/2007
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Environment, Soils & Land Use
Spatial Analysis
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http://hdl.handle.net/11019/896
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Daly, K., Fealy, R., Digital Soil Information System for Ireland – Scoping Study, Environmental RTDI Programme 2000–2006, 2005-S-DS-22-M1, Environmental Protection Agency, 2007.
Abstract
Soil is our life support system, crucial for the production of food and biomass and critical for the sustainability of an agro–environmental economy. The authors suggest that it is axiomatic that Ireland should have ready access to its soil information through the benefits of modern information technology. Soil is a multifunctional and complex natural medium that provides ecosystem services such as the production of food, fibre and fuel, the provision of habitat, nutrient cycling, contaminant transformation, water cycling and climate regulation. Reports from the European Commission indicate that many of these functions and services are under threat and soil protection is now placed on the same level as that of water and air.
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