History of Soil Science from Its Inception to the Present

Krupenikov, Igori Arcadie; Tedrow, J. C. F.

doi:10.1097/00010694-199410000-00010

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“…Many other substantive works on the history of soil science have contributed to our understanding of some early concepts in pedology (Jenny, 1961b;Simonson, 1968;Arnold, 1983;Tandarich et al, 1988Tandarich et al, , 2002Hudson, 1992;Krupenikov, 1992;Gennadiyev et al, 1995Gennadiyev et al, , 1996Buol et al, 1997;Yaalon, 1997;Brevik, 1999). However, none of these works summarized key concepts in pedology.…”

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Historical development of key concepts in pedology

Bockheim¹,

Gennadiyev²,

Hammer³

et al. 2005

Geoderma

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Historical development of key concepts in pedology

Bockheim¹,

Gennadiyev²,

Hammer³

et al. 2005

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“…Marbut (1935) did not provide any data on humus content (or any acidity-related parameter, either), for any of the soils he analyzed and described in his landmark atlas. This is in sharp contrast with the fact that a number of researchers in the USA, in particular Waksman at Rutgers, had published humus-related articles for well over a decade (Krupenikov, 1993). Just a few months after the publication of Marbut's (1935) atlas, Waksman (1936 published a major monograph on humus in which he stressed its great significance in nature and especially in soils… This rapid overview of the status of soils in the 1930s suggests that there was a definite public awareness that soils were crucial to the well-being and even survival of society, and that at the same time much about soils was unknown.…”

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From Dust Bowl to Dust Bowl: Soils are Still Very Much a Frontier of Science

Baveye

Rangel

Jacobson

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Soil Science Society of America Journal

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“…Alfred Hartemink (2006: vii) Soil science is a relatively young discipline that only develops as a distinctive field in the mid-19 th century when developments in chemistry, physics and biology coalesce in an interdisciplinary endeavour with research agendas closely intertwined with socioeconomic concerns around food production. Yet, until recently the most important accounts of the discipline's history had been written by scientists adopting a classic 'internalist' perspective addressed to soil scientists and focused on main scientific figures, paradigms and conceptual shifts (Krupenikov, 1993;Yaalon & Berkowicz, 1997). Only scattered examples can be found in this kind of literature that highlight the entanglement of scientific developments with socioeconomic contexts let alone the connections with agricultural capitalism (Moore, 2010).…”

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Making time for soil: Technoscientific futurity and the pace of care

2015

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The dominant drive for understanding soil has been to pace its fertility with human demand. But today warnings about soil's exhaustion and endangered ecology raise concerns that they have been mistreated throughout history. These worries are marked by fears of gloomy environmental futures, prompting us, and specially scientists and soil practitioners to urgently develop better ways of taking care of soils. Yet the pace required by ecological soil care could be at odds with the predominant temporal orientation of technoscientific intervention: driven by an inherently progressivist, productionist and restless mode of futurity. Through a conceptual and historical approach to the soil sciences and other domains of soil knowledge the paper looks for soil ontologies and approaches to human-soil relations that are obscured by this predominant timescape. Discussions about the future of the soil sciences already expose tensions between 'progress as usual' -by intensifying productivity -and the need to protect the pace of soil renewal. However it is in the interrogation of the intimate relation of soil science with productionism, and in the emergence of soil ecology conceptions that emphasise soil as a living community rather than a receptacle for crops, that we could see emerging alternative soil ontologies and human-soil relations paced by a temporality of care. The 'foodweb' model of soil ecology in particular has become a figure of alternative human-soil relations for environmental activists and practitioners, promoting soil care practices that intensify the involvement of practitioners with soil's temporality. Reading these ways of relating to soil ways of making time for 'care time', helps to reveal a diversity of more-than-human interdependent temporalities, disrupting the anthropocentric appeal of predominant timescales of technoscientific futurity and their reductive notion of innovation.

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History of Soil Science from Its Inception to the Present

Cited by 34 publications

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Historical development of key concepts in pedology

Historical development of key concepts in pedology

From Dust Bowl to Dust Bowl: Soils are Still Very Much a Frontier of Science

Making time for soil: Technoscientific futurity and the pace of care

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