Soil Science Working for a Living

Editors' introduction. - Part I: Soil development: properties and qualities. - Chapter 1. The factors and conditions of soil formation: a critical analysis of equivalence. - Chapter 2. Redoximorphic features in Albeluvisols from south-western Ukraine. - Chapter 3. Fractal properties of coarse/fine-related distribution in forest soils on colluvium. - Part II: Assessment of resources and risks. -
Chapter 4. The last steppes: new perspectives on an old challenge. - Chapter 5. Using multispectral satellite imagery for parameterization of eroded Chernozem. - Chapter 6. Pedo-geochemical assessment of a Holsteinian occupation site. - Chapter 7. Using geostatistics, DEM and remote sensing to clarify soil cover maps of Ukraine. - Chapter 8. Making better soil maps using models of tangential curvature. - Chapter 9. Determination of soil-loss tolerance for Chernozem of right-bank Ukraine. - Chapter 10. Assessment of problems of soil contamination using environmental indicators. - Chapter 11. Mathematical tools to assess soil contamination by deposition of technogenic emissions. - Part III: Soil fertility, degradation and improvement. - Chapter 12. Theoretical problems of improving agrochemical terminology. - Chapter 13. Criteria and parameters for forecasting the direction of irrigated soil evolution. - Chapter 14. Sustainability of soil fertility in the southern steppe of the Ukraine depending on fertilizers and irrigation. - Chapter 15. Evolution of potassium reserves in Chernozem under different fertilizer strategies, and indicators of potency. - Chapter 16. Ecological reclamation of acid soils. - Chapter 17. Composition of mobile phosphate fractions in soils of the Pre-Carpathians influenced by drainage, lime and phosphate fertilizer. - Part IV: Soil contamination, monitoring and remediation. - Chapter 18. Toxic soil contamination and its mitigation in Ukraine. - Chapter 19. Heavy metals in soils under the heel of heavy industry. - Chapter 20. Dangerous mercury contamination around the former Radikal chemicals factory in Kyiv and possible ways of rehabilitating this area. - Chapter 21. Comparison of groundwater and surface water quality in the area of the Bilanovo iron deposit. - Chapter 22. Estimation of soil radiation in the country around the Bilanovo iron and Kremenchug uranium deposits. - Chapter 23. Estimation of soil radiation in the country around the Dibrova uranium-thorium-rare earth deposit. - Chapter 24. Lead and zinc speciation in soils and their transfer in vegetation. - Chapter 25. Copper and zinc in the soils of the Olviya archaeological site. - Chapter 26. Environmental assessment of soil based on fractional-group composition of heavy metals. - Chapter 27. Regularity of transformations of oil-contaminated microbial ecosystems by super-oxidation technology and subsequent bio-remediation. - Chapter 28. Transformation of non-polar hydrocarbons in soils.