Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Soil Quality Management - Concepts and Terms -- 2 Soil Quality, Fertility and Health - Historical Context, Status and Perspectives -- 3 Soil Acidity - Resilience and Thresholds -- 4 Tightening the Nitrogen Cycle -- 5 Phosphorus - Surplus and Deficiency -- 6 Sustainable Management of Potassium -- 7 Developing and Maintaining Soil Organic Matter Levels -- 8 Microbial Diversity in Soil - Effects on Crop Health -- 9 Biological Soil Quality from Biomass to Biodiversity - Importance and Resilience to Management Stress and Disturbance -- 10 Subsoil Compaction and Ways to Prevent It -- 11 Management-induced Soil Structure Degradation - Organic Matter Depletion and Tillage -- 12 Soil Erosion - Processes, Damages and Countermeasures -- 13 Recyclable Urban and Industrial Waste - Benefits and Problems in Agricultural Use -- 14 Pesticides in Soil - Benefits and Limitations to Soil Health -- 15 Systems Approaches for Improving Soil Quality -- 16 Implementing Soil Quality Knowledge in Land-use Planning -- 17 Soil Quality in Industrialized and Developing Countries - Similarities and Differences -- 18 Soil Quality Management - Synthesis -- Index.