Soil and Culture By Edward R. Landa, Christian Feller
Publisher: Springer 2009-12-01 | 524 Pages | ISBN: 9048129591 | PDF | 17.5 MB
SOIL: beneath our feet / food and fiber / ashes to ashes, dust to dust / dirt!
Soil has been called the final frontier of environmental research. The critical role of soil in biogeochemical processes is tied to its properties and place—porous, structured, and spatially variable, it serves as a conduit, buffer, and transformer of water, solutes and gases. Yet what is complex, life-giving, and sacred to some, is ordinary, even ugly, to others. This is the enigma that is soil...