Soil Science Working for a Living : Applications of Soil Science to Present-day Problems edited by David Dent, Yuriy Dmytruk

--1 The Factors and Conditions of Soil Formation: A Critical Analysis of Equivalence
--2 Redoximorphic Features in Albeluvisols from South-Western Ukraine
--3 Fractal Properties of Coarse/Fine-Related Distribution in Forest Soils on Colluvium
Assessment of Resources and Risks
--4 The Last Steppes: New Perspectives on an Old Challenge
--5 Using Multispectral Satellite Imagery for Parameterisation of Eroded Chernozem
--6 Pedo-geochemical Assessment of a Holsteinian Occupation Site
--7 Using Geostatistics, DEM and Remote Sensing to Clarify Soil Cover Maps of Ukraine
--8 Making Better Soil Maps Using Models of Tangential Curvature
--9 Determination of Soil Loss Tolerance for Chernozem of Right-Bank Ukraine
--10 Assessment of Problems of Soil Contamination Using Environmental Indicators
--11 Mathematical Tools to Assess Soil Contamination by Deposition of Technogenic Emissions
Soil Fertility, Degradation and Improvement
--12 Theoretical Problems of Improving Agrochemical Terminology
--13 Criteria and Parameters for Forecasting the Direction of Irrigated Soil Evolution
--14 Sustainability of Soil Fertility in the Southern Steppe of Ukraine, Depending on Fertilizers and Irrigation
--15 Evolution of Potassium Reserves in Chernozem Under Different Fertilizer Strategies, and Indicators of Potency
--16 Ecological Reclamation of Acid Soils
--17 Composition of Mobile Phosphate Fractions in Soils of the Pre-Carpathians Influenced by Drainage, Lime, and Phosphate Fertilizer
--18 Toxic Soil Contamination and Its Mitigation in Ukraine
--19 Heavy Metals in Soils Under the Heel of Heavy Industry
--20 Dangerous Mercury Contamination Around the Former Radikal Chemicals Factory in Kyiv and Possible Ways of Rehabilitating this Area
--21 Comparison of Groundwater and Surface Water Quality in the Area of the Bilanovo Iron Deposit
--22 Estimation of Soil Radiation in the Country Around the Bilanovo Iron and Kremenchug Uranium Deposits
--23 Estimation of Soil Radiation in the Country Around the Dibrova Uranium–Thorium–Rare Earth Deposit
--24 Lead and Zinc Speciation in Soils and Their Transfer in Vegetation
--25 Copper and Zinc in the Soils of the Olviya Archaeological Site
--26 Environmental Assessment of Soil Based on Fractional–Group Composition of Heavy Metals
--27 Regularity of Transformations of Oil-Contaminated Microbial Ecosystems by Super-Oxidation Technology and Subsequent Bio-remediation
--28 Transformation of Non-polar Hydrocarbons in Soils

This book discusses gritty issues that society faces every day: food and water security, environmental services provided by farmers, almost accidentally, and taken for granted by everyone else, the capability of the land to provide our needs today and for the foreseeable future and pollution of soil, air and water. The chapters are grouped in four main themes: soil development - properties and qualities; assessment of resources and risks; soil fertility, degradation and improvement and soil contamination, monitoring and remediation. It is a selection of papers presented at the Pedodiversity in Space and Time Symposium held at Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine, 15-19 September 2015.