This highly specialized book presents soil quality as the vital element to natural resource management, agricultural sustainability, and human well being. Includes important and diverse topics such as: The effects of forest management on erosion and soil productivity; The effects of long-term cropping on organic matter content and the soil implications; The impact of soil organisms and organic matter on erodibility; Soil quality changes with mineland reclamation; and the relationship between rangeland soil quality, resilience and erosion.