International Year of Soils series of articles
Through the International Year of Soils, researchers from the James Hutton Institute and scientific partners joined forces to produce a series of articles aimed at explaining the relevance of soils to general audiences.
To mark World Soil Day and the end of the International Year of Soils, we've made available an anthology of these articles. A few were originally published in the Summer 2015 issue of The Geographer, the magazine of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and have been reproduced here by kind permission of the RSGS.
- A grounding in soil, by Blair McKenzie, James Hutton Institute
- Soil is the memory of the land, by Helaina Black, Matt Aitkenhead and Willie Towers, James Hutton Institute
- Soils will lead the next green revolution - if we allow them, by Alison Bennett, Tim Daniell and Timothy George, James Hutton Institute
- How soils keep us healthy, by Rupert Hough and Jon Stubberfield, James Hutton Institute
- Soil for politicians: how we can use soil data in evidence-based policy making, by Willie Towers and Katrin Prager, James Hutton Institute
- Soils and some of its darker secrets, by Lorna Dawson, James Hutton Institute
- Plant roots for engineering soil properties, by A.G. Bengough, James Hutton Institute and University of Dundee
- Improving soils for human nutrition, by Philip White, James Hutton Institute
- Soil and roots are the foundations of our development, by Kenneth Loades, James Hutton Institute, and Grainne El Mountassir, University of Strathclyde
- The vital role soil mapping plays in the sustainable management of the nation’s forests, by Andrew Nolan, James Hutton Institute, and Bill Rayner, Forest Research
- Soils in the digital age, by Matt Aitkenhead, James Hutton Institute
For more information on the series of articles, including permission to re-use, please get in touch with Bernardo Rodriguez-Salcedo, Media and External Relations Coordinator, Communications, James Hutton Institute.