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infinite possibilities for a finite resource
Sec. 1. Future challenges. Climate change : An underfoot perspective? / Kevin R. Tate and Benny K.G. Theng ; Soils and the future of food : Challenges and opportunities for feeding nine billion people / Sharon J. Hall ; Soil loss / Nikolaus J. Kuhn ; The finite soil resource for sustainable development : The case of Taiwan / Zeng-Yei Hseu and Zueng-Sang Chen ; The far future of soil / Peter K. Hagg -- Sec. 2. Valuing soils. Seeing soil / Deborah Koons Garcia ; Picturing soil : Aesthetic approaches to raising soil awareness in contemporary art / Alexandra R. Toland and Gerd Wessolek ; Principles for sustaining sacred soil / Norman Habel ; Indigenous Maori values, perspectives, and knowledge of soils in Aotearoa-New Zealand : Beliefs and concepts of soils, the environment, and land / Garth Harmsworth and Nick Roskruge ; Integrative development between soil science and Confucius' philosophy / Xinhua Peng ; Soil : Natural capital supplying valuable ecosystem services / Brent Clothier and Mary Beth Kirkham -- Sec. 3. Culture and history. Bread and soil in ancient Rome : A vision of abundance and an ideal of order based on wheat, grapes, and olives / Bruce R. James, Winfried E.H. Blum, and Carmelo Dazzi ; The Anatolian soil concept of the past and today / Erhan Akça and Selim Kapur ; Deconstructing the Leipsokouki : A million years (or so) of soils and sediments in rural Greece / Richard B. Doyle and Mary E. Savina ; Knowledge of soil and land in ancient Indian society / Pichu Rengasamy ; The evolution of paddy rice and upland cropping in Japan with reference to soil fertility and taxation / Masanori Okazaki and Koyo Yonebayashi ; Soils in farming -- centric lessons for life and culture in Korea / Rog-Young Kim, Su-Jung Kim, E. Jin Kim, and Jae E. Yang ; Terra preta : The mysterious soils of the Amazon / Antoinette M.G.A. WinklerPrins ; Modern landscape management using Andean technology developed by the Inca empire / Francisco Mamani-Pati, David E. Clay, and Hugh Smeltekop ; Indigenous Maori values, perspectives, and knowledge of soils in Aotearoa-New Zealand : Maori use and knowledge of soils over time / Garth Harmsworth and Nick Roskruge ; Potash, passion, and a president : Early twentieth-century debates on soil fertility in the United States / Edward R. Landa ; Soil and salts in Bernard Palissy's (1510-1590) view : Was he the pioneer of the mineral theory of plant nutrition? / Christian Feller and Jean-Paul Aeschlimann -- Sec. 4. Technologies and uses. Poetry in motions : The soil-excreta cycle / Rebecca Lines-Kelly ; Global potential for a new subsurface water retention technology : Converting marginal soil into sustainable plant production / Alvin J.M. Smucker and Bruno Basso ; Double loop learning in a garden / Richard Stirzaker ; Valuing the soil : Connecting land, people, and nature in Scotland / John E. Gordon, Patricia M.C. Bruneau, and Vanessa Brazier ; Sports surface design : The purposeful manipulation of soils / Richard Gibbs -- Sec. 5. Future strategies. Soil biophysics : The challenges / Iain M. Young and John W. Crawford ; Life in earth : A truly epic production / Karl Ritz ; Sustaining "The genius of soils" / Garrison Sposito.
editors: Gordon John Churchman, Edward R. Landa.
Includes bibliographical references and index.