Soil Science: Fundamentals to Recent Advances

Chapter 1. Managing Soil Resources for Human Health and Environmental Sustainability.- Chapter 2. Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics, Stabilization and Environmental Implication.- Chapter 3. Soil Organic Carbon: Past, Present and Future Research.- Chapter 4. Below-ground carbon storage and dynamics.- Chapter 5. Soil Biodiversity and Community Composition for Ecosystem Services.- Chapter 6. Rhizodeposition: an Unseen Teaser of Nature and its Prospects in Nutrients Dynamics.- Chapter 7. Soil Indicators and Management Strategies for Agro-environmental Sustainability.- Chapter 8. Conservation agriculture in reshaping below ground microbial diversity.- Chapter 9. Saline and Sodic Ecosystems in the Changing World.- Chapter 10. Approaches in Advanced Soil Elemental Extractability: Catapulting Future Soil-Plant Nutrition Research.- Chapter 11. Liquid Biofertilizer: A Potential Tool Towards Sustainable Agriculture.- Chapter 12. Biochar Role in Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from AgriculturalSoils.- Chapter 13. Nanotechnology is an Art for Native Nutrient Mobilization and Enhanced Use Efficiency.- Chapter 14. Nanotechnology in Environmental Soil Science.- Chapter 15. Importance of Soil Heterogeneity in Variety Testing Programs.- Chapter 16. Environmental and societal implications of soil response to increasing agricultural demands,- Chapter 17. Soil centric approaches towards climate resilient agriculture.- Chapter 18. Functional Diversity Management through Microbial Integrity for Sustainability.- Chapter 19. The Effect of Crops and Farming Systems on Soil Quality: A Case study.- Chapter 20. Role of Biochar on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Carbon Sequestration in Soil: Opportunities for Mitigating Climate change.- Chapter 21. Employment of seed priming as a salt-stress mitigating approach in agriculture: challenges and opportunities.- Chapter 22. Microbial Approaches for Bio-Amelioration and Management of Salt Affected Soils.- Chapter 23. Role of zeolites in improving

Amitava Rakshit, an IIT-Kharagpur alumnus is presently Associate Professor at the Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry at Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University(IAS, BHU). Dr. Rakshit worked in the Department of Agriculture, Government of West Bengal in administration and extension roles. He has visited Scandinavia, Europe, Africa, UAE and Bangladesh pertaining to his research work and presentation. He was awarded with TWAS Nxt Fellow (Italy), BiovisionNxt Fellow (France), Darwin Now Bursary(British Council),Young achiever award and Best Teacher's Award at UG and PG level(BHU-ICAR) and at state level by Uttar Pradesh Academy of Agricultural Sciences . He is serving as review college member of British Ecological Society, London since 2011, member of Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition of FAO, Rome and Commission on Ecosystem Management of IUCN. He has published 105 research papers, 37 book chapters, 28 popular articles, three manuals and co authored twenty four books

Dr.Satish Kumar Singh, received his B.Sc.(Ag) degree in 1985 and M.Sc.(Ag) in 1988 and Ph.D. in Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry in 1992 from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He started his professional career in 1990 as Lecturer of Agricultural Chemistry in Amar Singh (PG) College, Lakhaoti, Bulandshahr subsequently Dr Singh joined as Associate Professor in the year 1999 at G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar (Uttarakhand) and Professor, in 2006 at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Prof. Singh is Fellow of Indian Society of Soil Science, New Delhi and Indian Society of Agricultural Chemists, Allahabad. He has guided 27 post graduate and 07 Ph.D. Students. He has more than 200 publications to his credit that includes Research Papers, Books, Book Chapters, Laboratory Manuals, Technical Bulletins, Technical Folders etc.

Asim Biswas is an Associate Professor at the School of Environmental