Soil Science Working for a Living Applications of soil science to p
This book discusses gritty issues that society faces every day: food and water security, environmental services provided by farmers, almost accidentally, and taken for granted by everyone else, the capability of the land to provide our needs today and for
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il Science Working for a Living Applications of Soil Science to PresentDay Problems
Soil Science Working for a Living
David Dent Yuriy Dmytruk •
Editors
Soil Science Working for a Living Applications of Soil Science to Present-Day Problems
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Editors David Dent Chestnut Tree Farm, Forncett End Norfolk UK
ISBN 978-3-319-45416-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-45417-7
Yuriy Dmytruk Soil Science Department Chernivtsi National University Chernivtsi Ukraine
ISBN 978-3-319-45417-7
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Editorial Introduction
This selection of papers from a symposium at Chernivtsi, in the Ukraine, deals with gritty issues that society faces every day: food and water security; environmental services provided, almost accidentally, by farmers—and taken for granted by urban dwellers; the capability of the land to provide our needs today and for the foreseeable future; and pollution of soil, air, and water. The contributions are arranged in three broad communities of practice in which soil scientists work to solve these problems. It is not all the same out there! Assessment of land capability spells out this cri de coer; what is more, soil survey and land evaluation show how every patch of land is different and how it will respond to management. But soil survey and land evaluation depend on knowledge of soil processes and the relationships of soils with the wider landscape—so we deal with these issues in Part I: Soil Development: Properties and Qualities. Dokuchaev’s insight on the relationships between soils and their landscape, nowadays expressed as the Factors of Soil Formation, is the very foundation of soil survey so we begin with
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