(organised alphabetically by section)
THE QUESTION
Ball, Bruce (2015) The Landscape Below: Soil, soul and agriculture. UK, Iona; Wild Goose Publications
Foresight. The Future of Food and Farming (2011) Final Project Report. The Government Office for Science, London
Fraser Darling, Frank (1955) West Highland Survey. London: Oxford University Press
Hunter, James (1974) Making of the Crofting Community. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers
Napier Commission (1884) Her Majesty’s Commissioners of Inquiry into the Condition of the Crofters and Cottars of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Report and Minutes of Evidence London: HMSO
Okruzko H., Illnicki P. (2003) The Moorsh Horizons as Quality Indicators of Reclaimed Organic Soils. In: (Parent L.E. and Illnicki P. eds.) Organic Soils and Peat Materials for Sustainable Agriculture. Florida, USA: CRC Press
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THE SCIENCE
Fraser Darling, Frank (1955) West Highland Survey. London: Oxford University Press
Jones, Gwyn (2011) Trends in Common Grazing. European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism
Schulte, R.P.O., Richards, K., Daly, K., Kurz, I., McDonald E.J., & Holden (2006) Agriculture, Meteorology and Water Quality in Ireland: A regional evaluation of pressures and pathways of nutrient loss to water. Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Vol. 106B, No. 2: 117-133
Scottish Government (2006) Scotland’s Soil Resource: Current State and Threats. www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/09/21115639/12
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THE IMPLICATIONS
Berry, Wendell (2006) An Introduction to Soils and Health. Hudson Review vol. 29 no.2
Berry, Wendell (2009) Bringing it to the Table: On Food and Farming. USA, Berkeley: Counterpoint
Cowie, J. (1852) Report on Reclaiming and Manuring Peat-Moss. In: Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, Edinburgh
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Hunter, James (1974) Making of the Crofting Community. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers
IAASTD (2009) Agriculture at a Crossroads. UNEP
Jackson, Wes (2010) Consulting the Genius of the Place: an ecological approach to a new agriculture. USA, Berkeley: Counterpoint
Ogg, W.G. & MacLeod, A. (1930) Reclamation and Cultivation of Peatland in Lewis. Scottish Journal of Agriculture, vol. XIII (no. 2), 1-13.
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Salatin, J. (2010) The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer. self-published, Polyface.
Scottish Natural Heritage (2011) Flanders Moss. www.snh.org.us/publications/on-line/designated areas/nnrs/FlandersMoss/Flanders.
REFERENCE (Terminology for Organic Soils)
Australian National Botanical Garden (2010) Australian Bryophytes. www.anbg.gov.au/bryophyte/ecology-sphagnum.html
Avery, R.W. (1990) Soils of the British Isles. Cambridge: University Press
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Carmichael A. (1883) Grazing and Agrestic Customs of the Outer Hebrides. In: Napier Commission on Crofting. Edinburgh: the Crown: 451-482
Conry M.J., Diamond J.J. (1971) Proposed Classification of Plaggen Soils. Pedologie XXI, 2: 152-161
Conry M.J. (1972) Pedological Evidence of Man’s Role in Soil Profile Modification in Ireland. Geoderma 8: 139-146
Conry M.J. (1974) Plaggen Soils: A Review of Man-made Raised Soils. Soils and Fertilizers vol.37 no.11. Commonwealth Bureau of Soils
Davidson D.A., Simpson I.A. (1994) Soils and Landscape History: Case Studies from the Northern Isles of Scotland. In: (Foster S. and Smout T.C. eds.) The History of Soils and Field Systems. Aberdeen: Scottish Cultural Press
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Scottish Natural Heritage (2001) Boglands
Simpson I.A., Bryant R.G. (1998) Relict Soils and Early Arable Land Management in Lofoten, Norway. Journal of Archaeological Science (1998) 25: 1185-1198
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Smith, Helen (1994) Middening in the Outer Hebrides: an Ethnoarcheological Investigation. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Sheffield
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USDA (1987) Soil Taxonomy. US Dept. of Agriculture Handbook no.436