ABSTRACT

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

chapter 1|14 pages

Climate Change: An Underfoot Perspective?

chapter 3|12 pages

Soil Loss

chapter 5|14 pages

The Far Future of Soil

chapter 6|8 pages

Seeing Soil

chapter 8|8 pages

Principles for Sustaining Sacred Soil

chapter 23|12 pages

Poetry in Motions: The Soil–Excreta Cycle

chapter 25|12 pages

Double Loop Learning in a Garden

chapter 28|8 pages

Soil Biophysics: The Challenges

chapter 29|16 pages

Life in Earth: A Truly Epic Production

chapter 30|30 pages

Sustaining “The Genius of Soils”