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"With eight billion people, we're going to have to start getting interested in soil," he said. "We're simply not going to be able to keep treating it like dirt."
In your opinion, what are the good books on soil and soil's relationships to agriculture and food production for lay readers?
A couple I've read are Hilllel's "Out of the Earth: Civilization and the Life of the Soil" (1991) and Evans's "Feeding the Ten Billion: Plants and population growth" (1998) and I'm reading Grigg's "An Introduction to Agricultural Geography" (1995). What are more recent books that are good, incorporating recent findings and the current resource situation?
Thanks.
P.S. The non-print URL http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/09/soil/mann-text is a little friendlier than the one with 'print" in it.
Posted by: noname at August 23, 2008 08:45 AMI'm not a soil scientist, but Philip Small at Transect Points is. Someone once asked me this same question and I referred them to him, with satisfactory results. He's a practicing scientist, active in professional associations, and has made significant contributions to the web. He's my go to guy for soil science.
Thx for the URL tip. I'll make a change.
Posted by: back40 at August 23, 2008 11:12 AM