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People and Ideas in Soil History
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Edited By
Benno Warkentin, Oregon Water Resources Research Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
Description
The history of science discipline is contributing valuable knowledge of the culture of soil understanding, of the conditions in society
that fostered the ideas, and of why they developed in certain ways. This book is about the progressive ?footprints? made by scientists
in the soil. It contains chapters chosen from important topics in the development of soil science, and tells the story of the people
and the exciting ideas that contributed to our present understanding of soils. Initiated by discussions within the Soil Science Society
of America and the International Union of Soil Sciences, this book uniquely illustrates the significance of soils to our society.
It
is planned for soils students, for various scientific disciplines, and for members of the public who show an increasing interest in soil.
This book allows us to answer the questions: ?How do we know what we know about soils?? and ?How did one step or idea lead to the next
one??
The chapters are written by an international group of authors, each with special interests, bound together by the central theme
of soils and how we came to our present understanding of soils. Each concentrate on soil knowledge in the western world and draw primarily
on written accounts available in English and European languages. Academics, graduate students, researchers and practitioners will gain
new insights from these studies of how ideas in soil science and understanding of uses of soils developed.
Audience
Soil scientists, academics, graduate students, researchers and practitioners interested in terrestrial ecosystems and soil geography, ecologists, historians of agriculture and environment
Contents
Acknowledement
Preface
Section I
Early Understanding of Soils
1. Soil Scientists in Ancient Rome?V. Winiwarter
2.
Aztec Knowledge of Soils, Soil Ecology and Management?B. Williams
3. The Heritage of Soil Knowledge Among the World?s Cultures?J. Sandor,
A. Winkler-Prins, N. Barrera-Bassols, and J.A. Zinck
4. Some Major Scientists Describing Soil Profiles and Developing Soil Investigation
Techniques Before 1880?C. Feller, E. Blanchart, and D. Yaalon
5. Souls and Soils: A Survey of Worldviews?V. Winiwarter and W. Blum
Section II
Soil as a Natural Body
6. The Roots of Dokuchaev?s Scientific Contributions: Cadastral Soil Mapping and
Agro-Environmental Issues?C. Evtuhov
7. Philosophical Developments in Pedology in the United States: Eugene Hilgard and Milton Whitney?R.
Amundson
8. Development of the Soil Cover Pattern and Catena Concepts?A. Gennadiyev and J. Bockheim
9. The History of Soil Geomorphology
in the United States?V. Holliday
Section III
Soil Properties and Processes
10. Soils in Ecology and Ecology in Soils?D.
Binkley
11. History of Soil Biology?J. Berthelin, U. Babel, and F. Toutain
12. Historical Aspects of Soil Chemistry?D. Sparks
13. The
Changing Understanding of Physical Properties of Soils: Water Flow and Soil Architecture?S. Hasegawa and B. Warkentin
Section
IV
Soil Uses and Users
14. Soil Erosion and Conservation: An International History and a Cautionary Tale?K. Showers
15. Stewardship
and Soil Health?E. Gregorich, G. Sparling and J. Gregorich
16. Soil Nutrient Management for Plant Growth?A. Finck
17. Soils and Environmental
Issues?T. Addiscott
18. Ancient Agricultural Terraces and Soils?J. Sandor
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 572 pages, publication date: APR-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-52177-4
ISBN-10: 0-444-52177-1
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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