우리나라 토양환경보전 정책의 패러다임 전환

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This paper reviews the soil conservation policies (SCP) in the global community and suggests the improved options inSCP in Korea. Soil Environment Conservation Act in Korea states soil is a valuable natural resource and it’s value shouldbe enhanced to provide the benefits that soil ecosystem can offer to people. However, SCP in Korea limits its applicationto not only the scope of soil environment but also the issues on soil pollution. The SCPs in the advanced countries haveshifted their scopes from soil environment to soil ecosystem, put emphasis on the conservation of soil health rather thansoil quality, and set the goals to optimize the soil ecosystem services to people while minimizing the soil threats. In thiscontext, the soil security initiative was recently proposed to accomplish this goal while employing the nexus concept tobridge the soil ecosystem services with water, atmosphere, climate and biodiversity. Therefore, the key policies in soilconservation in Korea should expand the scope from soil environment to soil ecosystem, focus on soil health management,and develop the holistic governance among diverse stakeholder to maximize the soil ecosystem services. Soil ecosystemshould be secured by national soil policies for human health.

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