Product Description

Analyses the properties, processes and classification of soils, their environmental history, soil-human interactions and the future. A broad and balanced books covering a wide spectrum of environmentally-related subjects.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #515779 in Books
• Published on: 1995-10-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 392 pages

From the Back Cover
This important text offers a balanced coverage of an area of major human and environmental significance. Lying at the interface of the geosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and atmosphere, soils are of major importance to an understanding of both natural environmental processes and thoses affected by human activity.
Soils and Environment examines the ways in which soils both influence, and are influenced by, the environment. assuming only a basic scientific knowledge, the book analyses the constituents and properties of soils, and the processes and pathways of soil formation within the context of environmental change. examining soils as components of natural environmental systems, this book offers an understanding of soil-human interactions in landuse systems, environmental problems and landuse management, and soil survey and land evaluation.

Customer Reviews

A well written, understandable, versatile soil text book.
There is very little about soil that Ellis and Mellor don't touch on in this book. Suitable for undergraduate level of understanding.