Abstract
<jats:p>The monograph suggests approaches that allow us to look at both the well-established problems of soil science and relatively new developments from a different angle. Chapters 1, 2 and 3 of the monograph are devoted to the peculiarities of the course of soil processes – their nonlinearity in time and space, cyclicity, which is “interrupted” with a certain periodicity. Chapters 4 and 5 reflect rather original ways of describing soil properties and processes (including degradation and progradation) using stress and strain tensors and LT methodology. Chapter 6 is devoted to the characterization of the so-called “random” and “non-random” factors of soil formation. Chapter 7 provides extensive information on soil quality assessment and issues of environmental regulation of this quality. Chapter 8 is devoted to the consideration of soil indicators used in regional food security models (regional econometric dynamic models of agricultural development based on the Cobb-Douglas function). Chapter 9 reflects possible approaches to classifying soils and soil resources. Chapter 10 summarizes the diverse analysis of soil processes and suggests the author's definition of the concept of “soil”. For soil scientists, ecologists, specialists in the field of agricultural economics and environmental economics.</jats:p>