In addition to the various academic texts provided within this section, a variety of other resources are listed below, for adults and children, both fiction and non-fiction.
Non-Fiction
Sir E John Russell (1957) The World of the Soil
John Stewart Collis (1973) The Worm Forgives the Plough
Vernon Gill Carter & Tom Dale (1975) Topsoil and Civilisation
Daniel Hillel (1992) Out of the Earth: Civilization and the Life of the Soil
David W Wolfe (2002) Tales From The Underground: A Natural History of Subterranean Life
Alastair McIntosh (2004) Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power
Jennifer Wallace (2004) Digging the Dirt: The Archaeological Imagination
Yvonne Baskin (2006) Under Ground: How Creatures of Mud and Dirt Shape Our World
William Bryant Logan (2007) Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth
David R Montgomery (2007) Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
Vandana Shiva (2008) Soil Not Oil: Climate Change, Peak Oil and Food Insecurity
Lierre Kieth (2010) The Vegetarian Myth
Edward R Landa & Christian Feller, eds. (2010) Soil and Culture
Amy Stewart (2012) The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
Satish Kumar (2013) Soil, Soul, Society: A New Trinity for Our Time
Kristin Ohlson (2014) The Soil Will Save Use: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
Paul B Thompson (2017) The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics
Maria Munoz & Raúl Zornoza, Eds. (2017) Soil Management and Climate Change
Rattan Lal & B. A. Stewart, Eds. (2018) Urban Soils
Fiction
Knut Hamsun (1921, 2007) The Growth of the Soil
John Steinbeck (1939, 2006) The Grapes of Wrath
DVDs/Documentaries
Layers of Soil - The Dr Binocs Show (2017) Peekaboo Kidz
Soil Ecology Claymation Films (2017) Maxwell Helmberger
Dirt: The Movie (2007) Bill Logan, Paul Stamets
The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2005) Taggart Siegel
Dirtgirlworld - Grow! (2010)
Sustainable (2016) Matt Wechsler
A Farm for the Future (2009) BBC/Rebecca Hosking
The Birth of the Soil (1948) Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936) Pare Lorentz
Children's Books
Doreen Cronin (2012) Diary of a Worm
Steve Tomecek (2002) Dirt (Jump into Science)
Raymond Bial (2000) A Handful of Dirt
Melissa Stewart (2004) Down to Earth (Investigate Science)
Gary Larson (2008) There's a Hair in my Dirt
Maps
Publication Office of the European Union, Luxembourg (2018) World Atlas of Desertification
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations - Regional and National Soil Maps and Datasets
UK Soil Observatory - UK Soil Maps
GIS Sol - French Soil Maps
Other Documents, Journals, Books & References
Special Journal Edition - 'Assessment and Governance of Sustainable Soil Management' (2018) Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050)
Special Journal Edition - 'Carbon Input into Agricultural Soils' (2018) Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050)
Special Journal Edition - 'Soil Science in Conservation Agricultural Systems' (2017) Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050)
Special Edition Journal - 'Critical Issues on Soil Management and Conservation' (2015) Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050)
Special Edition Journal - 'Enhancing Soil Health to Mitigate Soil Degradation' (2014) Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050)
Be the Solution to Soil Pollution (2018) FAO
Global Soil Organic Carbon map: Technical Report (2018) FAO
Global Soil Organic Carbon map: Information Leaflet (2018) FAO
Soil Pollution: A Hidden Reality (2018) FAO
Soil Organic Carbon Mapping Cookbook 2nd Edition (2018) FAO
Providing support in relation to the implementation of the EU Soil Thematic Strategy - Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services Soil ecosystems (2018) van der Meulen, S & Maring, L; Report Prepared for European Commission DG Environment.
Potential strong contribution of future anthropogenic land-use and land-cover change to the terrestrial carbon cycle (2018) Quesada, B; Arneth, A; Robertson, E; de Noblet-Ducoudré, N; Environmental Research Letters, 13, 6
Social-ecological outcomes of agricultural intensification (2018) Rasmussen, L V, et al; Nature Sustainability, 1, 275-282
A systemic approach for modeling soil functions (2018) Vogel, HJ et al, SOIL, 4, 83-92
Soil fertility after 10 years of conservation tillage in organic farming (2018) Peigné, J et al, Soil and Tillage Research, 175, 194-204
Networking our science to characterize the state, vulnerabilities, and management opportunities of soil organic matter (2017) Harden, W, J et al, Global Change Biology, 24, 2, e705-e718
Global Sequestration Potential of Increased Organic Carbon in Cropland Soils (2017) Zomer, R. J, et al, Scientific Reports, 7
Detecting macroecological patterns in bacterial communities across independent studies of global soils (2017) Ramirez, K, S, et al, Nature Microbiology
Soil conservation in the 21st century: why we need smart agricultural intensification (2017) Govers, G et al; SOIL, 3, 45-59
The Global Land Outlook 1st Ed. (2017) UNCCD
Long-term pattern and magnitude of soil carbon feedback to the climate system in a warming world (2017) Melillo, J. M. et al, Science; 358, 6359, 101-105
Adding organic matter to soil has a limited effect on water holding capacity (2017) Minasny, B. Mcbratney, A. B. European Journal of Soil Science
Bacterial Communities on Wheat Grown Under Long-Term Conventional Tillage and No-Till in the Pacific Northwest of the United States (2017) Yin, C; Mueth, N & Hulbert, S; Phyto Biomes Journal; 1, 2
Turning Soils into Sponges: How Farmers can Fight Floods and Droughts (2017) Union of Concerned Scientists
Revised World Soil Charter (2015) UN FAO (available in English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, French)
The Economics of Land Degradation - The Value of Land: Prosperous lands and positive rewards through sustainable land management (2015)
Global research on soil contamination from 1999 to 2012: A bibliometric analysis (2014) K. Guoa, Y.F. Liua, C. Zengb, Y.Y. Chena, and X.J. Weia; Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section B — Soil & Plant Science
Do Current European Policies Prevent Soil Threats and Support Soil Functions? (2014) Glæsner, N; Helming, K; de Vries, W; Sustainability
Soil Contamination: Impacts on Human Health (2013) Science for Environment Policy - European Commission
Early soil knowledge and the birth and development of soil science (2010) Brevika, E. Hartemink, A. CATENA; 83, 1
Unversity of Minnesota Extension - Soil management and health
Journal of soils and sediments
European journal of soil science