The Soil Underfoot: Infinite Possibilities for a Finite Resource: Infinite Possibilities for a Finite Resource

Front Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 9
Foreword......Page 13
Introduction......Page 15
Cover Story......Page 21
Editors, Foreword Writer, and Illustrator......Page 23
Contributor Biographies......Page 25
Contributors......Page 33
Chapter 1: Climate Change : An Underfoot Perspective?......Page 39
Chapter 2: Soils and the Future of Food : Challenges and Opportunities for Feeding Nine Billion People......Page 53
Chapter 3: Soil Loss......Page 73
Chapter 4: The Finite Soil Resource for Sustainable Development : The Case of Taiwan......Page 85
Chapter 5: The Far Future of Soil......Page 97
Chapter 6: Seeing Soil......Page 111
Chapter 7: Picturing Soil : Aesthetic Approaches to Raising Soil Awareness in Contemporary Art......Page 119
Chapter 8: Principles for Sustaining Sacred Soil......Page 139
Chapter 9: Indigenous Ma¯ori Values, Perspectives, and Knowledge of Soils in Aotearoa-New Zealand : Beliefs and Concepts of Soils, the Environment, and Land......Page 147
Chapter 10: Integrative Development between Soil Science and Confucius’ Philosophy......Page 163
Chapter 11: Soil : Natural Capital Supplying Valuable Ecosystem Services......Page 171
Chapter 12: Bread and Soil in Ancient Rome : A Vision of Abundance and an Ideal of Order Based on Wheat, Grapes, and Olives......Page 189
Chapter 13: The Anatolian Soil Concept of the Past and Today......Page 211
Chapter 14: Deconstructing the Leipsokouki : A Million Years (or so) of Soils and Sediments in Rural Greece......Page 221
Chapter 15: Knowledge of Soil and Land in Ancient Indian Society......Page 245
Chapter 16: The Evolution of Paddy Rice and Upland Cropping in Japan with Reference to Soil Fertility and Taxation......Page 249
Chapter 17: Soils in Farming—Centric Lessons for Life and Culture in Korea......Page 257
Chapter 18: Terra Preta : The Mysterious Soils of the Amazon......Page 271
Chapter 19: Modern Landscape Management Using Andean Technology Developed by the Inca Empire......Page 283
Chapter 20: Indigenous Ma¯ori Values, Perspectives, and Knowledge of Soils in Aotearoa-New Zealand : Ma¯ori Use and Knowledge of Soils over Time......Page 293
Chapter 21: Potash, Passion, and a President : Early Twentieth-Century Debates on Soil Fertility in the United States......Page 305
Chapter 22: Soil and Salts in Bernard Palissy’s (1510–1590) View : Was He the Pioneer of the Mineral Theory of Plant Nutrition?......Page 325
Chapter 23: Poetry in Motions : The Soil–Excreta Cycle......Page 339
Chapter 24: Global Potential for a New Subsurface Water Retention Technology : Converting Marginal Soil into Sustainable Plant Production......Page 351
Chapter 25: Double Loop Learning in a Garden......Page 361
Chapter 26: Valuing the Soil : Connecting Land, People, and Nature in Scotland......Page 373
Chapter 27: Sports Surface Design : The Purposeful Manipulation of Soils......Page 387
Chapter 28: Soil Biophysics : The Challenges......Page 407
Chapter 29: Life in Earth : A Truly Epic Production......Page 415
Chapter 30: Sustaining “The Genius of Soils”......Page 431
Back Cover......Page 0