Foreword to ‘Soil Change Matters’

Foreword: Mediterranean diet and climatic change.

Changes in diet, reducing animal products and increasing consumption of vegetables can not only benefit human health and the overall use of land, but can also play a decisive role in the politics of climate change mitigation. In this sense, the Mediterranean diet (MD) is presented as a sustainable cultural model, respectful of the environment, whose adherence in Mediterranean countries should c...

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Foreword to LEO Article

As part of the reorganization of the JAIS Journal in 2002 the newly formed editorial team has decided to open the pages of the JAIS journal to the recipients of the Leo awardthe most distinguished award of AIS. The LEO Award was established in 1999 by the Council of the Association for Information Systems and the Executive Committee of the International Conference on Information Systems. Named ...

Soil carbon sequestration to mitigate climate change

The increase in atmospheric concentration of CO2 by 31% since 1750 from fossil fuel combustion and land use change necessitates identification of strategies for mitigating the threat of the attendant global warming. Since the industrial revolution, global emissions of carbon (C) are estimated at 270F 30 Pg (Pg = petagram= 10 g = 1 billion ton) due to fossil fuel combustion and 136F 55 Pg due to...

Politics Matters: A Response to Recent Commentaries