Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the History of Geophysics Series, Volume 3. For society as a whole, and more specifically, for a subgroup of society composed of the practitioners of a specific scientific discipline such as hydrology, the preservation and study of the record of how our understanding of natural processes has developed is not only a worthy and noble goal in itself, but has a didactic role in the education of scientists...read more