The textbook outlines Allan Savory's paradigm-changing vision for reversing desertification, stemming the loss of biodiversity, eliminating fundamental causes of human impoverishment throughout the world, and climate change. The handbook helps land and business managers apply these paradigms into practice.

An in-depth look at the cause and impacts of the Dust Bowl which took place in the 1930s. Many of the farming practices that led to this catastrophic event are still in use today, causing dust storms throughout the Great Plains.

Author Nicolette Hahn Niman shares her personal journey from vegan to sustainable ranching advocate as well as an analysis of the world’s food system and how livestock must be incorporated into it.

An examination of the factors that are largely missing from the common conceptions of invasive species, including how the colliding effects of climate change, habitat destruction, and changes in land use and management contribute to their proliferation.

Journalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson makes an elegantly argued, passionate case for "our great green hope"—a way in which we can not only heal the land but also turn atmospheric carbon into beneficial soil carbon—and potentially reverse global warming.

Author Judith Schwartz reveals that for many problems--climate change, desertification, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, wildfires, rural poverty, malnutrition, and obesity--there are positive, alternative scenarios to the degradation and devastation we face. In each case, our ability to turn these crises into opportunities depends on how we treat the soil.