The soil underfoot

The soil underfoot: infinite possibilities for a finite resource

by Churchman, G. J. Landa, Edward

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The largest part of the world's food comes from its soils, either directly from plants, or via animals fed on pastures and crops. Thus, it is necessary to maintain, and if possible, improve the quality-and hence good health-of soils, while enabling them to support the growing world population. The Soil Underfoot: Infinite Possibilities for a Finite Resource arms readers with historical wisdom from various populations around the globe, along with current ideas and approaches for the wise managem…

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  • Full title :The soil underfoot : infinite possibilities for a finite resource / edited by G. Jock Churchman, Edward R. Landa.

Summary

The largest part of the world's food comes from its soils, either directly from plants, or via animals fed on pastures and crops. Thus, it is necessary to maintain, and if possible, improve the quality-and hence good health-of soils, while enabling them to support the growing world population. The Soil Underfoot: Infinite Possibilities for a Finite Resource arms readers with historical wisdom from various populations around the globe, along with current ideas and approaches for the wise management of soils.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2014.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource : : color illustrations, color maps

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781466571570, 1466571578, 9780429188435, 0429188439
  • oclc:ocn878262837
  • LC Classification:S591
  • Dewey Decimal:631.4

Table of Contents

Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Cover Story; Editors, Foreword Writer, and Illustrator; Contributor Biographies; Contributors; Chapter 1: Climate Change : An Underfoot Perspective?; Chapter 2: Soils and the Future of Food : Challenges and Opportunities for Feeding Nine Billion People; Chapter 3: Soil Loss; Chapter 4: The Finite Soil Resource for Sustainable Development : The Case of Taiwan; Chapter 5: The Far Future of Soil; Chapter 6: Seeing Soil; Chapter 7: Picturing Soil : Aesthetic Approaches to Raising Soil Awareness in Contemporary Art.

Chapter 8: Principles for Sustaining Sacred SoilChapter 9: Indigenous Ma ̄ori Values, Perspectives, and Knowledge of Soils in Aotearoa-New Zealand : Beliefs and Concepts of Soils, the Environment, and Land; Chapter 10: Integrative Development between Soil Science and Confucius' Philosophy; Chapter 11: Soil : Natural Capital Supplying Valuable Ecosystem Services; Chapter 12: Bread and Soil in Ancient Rome : A Vision of Abundance and an Ideal of Order Based on Wheat, Grapes, and Olives; Chapter 13: The Anatolian Soil Concept of the Past and Today.

Chapter 14: Deconstructing the Leipsokouki : A Million Years (or so) of Soils and …

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Subjects

Ahu māra Boden Bodenkunde Gestion des sols Pedologie Sciences du sol soil Soil and civilization soil science Soils Sòls Sols et civilisation TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture

Writers

Churchman, G. J. Landa, Edward

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