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The Mainstreaming Agenda of the Convention on Biological Diversity and Its Value to Protecting and Enhancing Soil Ecosystem Services
Summary
This chapter highlights the importance of soil biodiversity in providing ecosystem services and how it connects to the Convention on Biological Diversity's mainstreaming agenda. Researchers present case studies showing how soil biodiversity considerations can be integrated into decision-making across sectors. The study includes a practical checklist to help policymakers incorporate soil health into biodiversity and land management strategies.
Abstract This chapter highlights the importance of soil biodiversity in the provision of ecosystem services, and its relevance in the context of the Convention on Biological Diversity ‘mainstreaming’ agenda, and Convention architecture. It provides case studies relating to the mainstreaming of soil biodiversity, as well as a ‘Soil Biodiversity Perception Checklist’, to help integrate soil biodiversity, soil health and soil ecosystem services into decision making at all levels and across all sectors, including in policy, and land use and management strategy and practice.
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