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Record #177524:
A vault for humanity / Sara Blask.
Title: | A vault for humanity / Sara Blask. |
Author(s): | Blask, Sara. |
Date: | 2003. |
In: | Iceland Review. (2003.), Vol. 44(3) (2003) |
Abstract: | Describes Svalbard International Seed Vault, seed bank constructed inside sandstone mountain of permafrost to protect world's seeds - and crop diversity - from disaster. Explains importance of crop diversity, with only 12 types of food crop supplying more than 90% of world's food energy supply. Also notes engineering features of seed bank and projected durability. |
Notes: | Iceland Review. Vol. 44(3) :44-49 (2003). |
Keywords: | 502 -- Environmental issues. 502.753 -- Conservation, plant species. 574 -- Ecology. 58 -- Botany. 581.48 -- Seeds. 551.345 -- Permafrost. Cryopedology. 624.139 -- Engineering in frozen ground. F -- Biological sciences. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*32) -- Svalbard. (*324) -- Spitsbergen. |
SPRI record no.: | 177524 |
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