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Ranging from ancient times to modern-day environmental threats, a natural and cultural history of soil explains how an elimination of protective vegetation and an exposure to wind and rain causes severe erosion of cultivated soils, how the use and abuse of soil has shaped human history, and the how...
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Tuttle Pub.,
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| Publisher Address: | Tokyo ; Rutland, VT : |
| Publication Dates: | [2011] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Ranging from ancient times to modern-day environmental threats, a natural and cultural history of soil explains how an elimination of protective vegetation and an exposure to wind and rain causes severe erosion of cultivated soils, how the use and abuse of soil has shaped human history, and the how the rise of organic and no-till farming holds hope for the future. |
| Carrier Form: | 144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 21 x 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9784805311288 (hardcover) : 4805311282 (hardcover) |
| Index Number: | SB458 |
| CLC: | TU986.631.3-09 |
| Call Number: | TU986.631.3-09/M287 |
| Contents: | A sense of nature -- The modular garden -- Landscape gardens -- Requisitioning space -- Healing gardens. |