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

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