1. Background and challenges
1.1 The importance of preserving soil, a non-renewable resource
Soils provide numerous benefits to mankind, grouped together under the term "ecosystem services". These include regulating services (biodiversity, water flow and quality, air quality, local and global climate, biogeochemical cycles), supplying services (food and non-food crops, building materials, drinking water) and cultural services (parks, forests, archaeology, tourism)
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