Managing at a System Level—Considering 4R Nutrient Stewardship and Soil Health Together

Core Attributes of Stewardship; Foundation of Sound Health System

Stewardship is not a new concept for public policy, but has not been used to its optimum by the health policy-makers. Although it is being practiced in most successful models of health system, but the onus to this function is still due till date. Lately, few experts in World Health Organization (WHO) have realized its importance and have been raising the issue at different platforms to pursue t...

Formulary Management and Antimicrobial Stewardship: a 7-year Evaluation at an Integrated Health-System

Fostering soil stewardship through soil quality assessment

Soil quality is not a purchased technology; instead, it is a concept that can be used in making land management decisions. Researchers have generally agreed upon the soil properties that determine soils’ capacity to function and have emphasized that soil quality must be understood in context. Soil quality research has included the following: (1) soil management research, where the effects of ma...

Managing Fertilizers to Enhance Soil Health

Soil nutrient cycles as a nonlinear dynamical system

An analytical model for the soil carbon and nitrogen cycles is studied from the dynamical system point of view. Its main nonlinearities and feedbacks are analyzed by considering the steady state solution under deterministic hydro-climatic conditions. It is shown that, changing hydroclimatic conditions, the system undergoes dynamical bifurcations, shifting from a stable focus to a stable node an...