
Approaches to Soil Health Analysis (Soil Health series, Volume 1)
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Approaches to Soil Health Analysis (Soil Health series, Volume 1)
About this book
Approaches to Soil Health Analysis
A concise survey of soil health analysis and its various techniques and applications
The maintenance of healthy soil resources provides the foundation for an array of global efforts and initiatives that affect humanity. Whether they are working to combat food shortages, conserve our ecosystems, or mitigate the impact of climate change, researchers and agriculturalists the world over must be able to correctly examine and understand the complex nature of this essential, fragile resource. These new volumes have been designed to meet this need, addressing the many dimensions of soil health analysis in chapters that are concise, accessible and applicable to the tasks at hand.
Soil Health, Volume One: Approaches to Soil Health Analysis provides a well-rounded overview of the various methods and strategies available to analysists, and covers topics including:
- The history of soil health and its study
- Challenges and opportunities facing analysists
- Meta-data and its assessment
- Applications to forestry and urban land reclamation
- Future soil health monitoring and evaluation approaches
Offering a far-reaching survey of this increasingly interdisciplinary field, this volume will be of great interest to all those working in agriculture, private sector businesses, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), academic-, state-, and federal-research projects, as well as state and federal soil conservation, water quality and other environmental programs.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Soil Health: An Overview and Goals for These Volumes
- 2 Evolution of the Soil Health Movement
- 3 The Utility and Futility of Soil Health Assessment
- 4 Metadata: An Essential Component for Interpreting Soil Health Measurements
- 5 Soil Health Assessment of Agricultural Lands
- 6 Soil Health Assessment of Forest Soils
- 7 A Risk‐Based Soil Health Approach to Management of Soil Lead
- 8 The Future of Soil Health Assessments: Tools and Strategies
- Epilogue
- End User License Agreement