The soil underfoot : infinite possibilities for a finite resource /: infinite possibilities for a finite resource. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gordon John Churchman, Edward R. Landa.
• Editors: Churchman, G. J; Landa, Edward
• Contents: Section I 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. Haff; ; Section II Valuing Soils; Seeing Soil; Deborah Koons Garcia; Picturing Soil: Aesthetic Approaches to Raising Soil Awareness in Contemporary Art; Alexandra Toland and Gerd Wessolek; Principles for Sustaining Sacred Soil; Norman Habel; Indigenous Māori 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; ; Section III 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; Importance of 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 Māori Values, Perspectives, and Knowledge of Soils in Aotearoa-New Zealand: B. Māori 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; ; Section IV 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; ; Section V 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; ; Index;
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 631.4; Soils; Soil science; Soil and civilization
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781466571570
• Related ISBNs: 9781466571563
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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