Soil, human society and the environment, W E H Blum, B P Warkentin and E Frossard
• Functions, services, and value of soil organic matter for human societies and the environment: a historical perspective, C Feller, R J Manlay, M J Swift and M Bernoux
• Soils and greenhouse gases, J Leifeld
• Soil as an important interface between agricultural activities and groundwater: leaching of nutrients and pesticides in the vadose zone, L F Bergstrom and F Djodjic
• Understanding of a soil system derived from a single bed-rock for improved vineyard management in southern France, M Dosso, O Philippon and A Ruellan
• Heavy metals in Swiss forest soils: modification of lithogenic and anthropogenic contents by pedogenetic processes and implications for ecological risk assessment, J Luster, S Zimmermann, C Zwicky, P Lienemann and P Blaser
• Reuse of agricultural drainage water in central California: Photosustainability in soil with high levels of salinity and toxic trace elements, G S Banuelos and Z Q Lin
• The effects of agricultural practices on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, J Jansa, A Wiemken and E Frossard
• Soil sealing and soil properties related to sealing, W Burghardt
• Cultural soilscapes, E C Wells
• From agricultural geology to hydropedology: forging links within the twenty-first-century geoscience community, E R Landa
• Australian examples of the role of soils in environmental problems, P A Hazelton
• Policies for a sustainable use of soil resources, L Montanarella
• Assessing anthropogenic inputs to soils by comparing element contents and their spatial distribution in O- and A-horizons, M Inácio, V Pereira and M Pinto
• Nutrient balances for improving the use of non-renewable resources: experiences from Switzerland and Southeast Asia, H Menzi and P Gerber
• Perspectives on the relationship between soil science and geology, F C Ugolini and B P Warkentin