The Soil Resource: Origin and Behavior

by Hans Jenny

Book Overview

change is simply described by the rate of income and rate of loss. Our home's energy budget, our firm's inventory, our nation's debt, and humanity's numbers all have accounts that change at rates that are equal to the inputs minus the outputs. Jenny's "system view" of the soil was carried into the fertile fields of Midwestern American prairies from the laboratories of Switzerland in the late 1920s. Jenny's rate equations provided the other paradigm...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461261147
• ISBN13: 9781461261148
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"