Quantitative assessments of the effects of global change on soil development are mostly focused
on soil carbon some nutrients pollutants and soil water. Soil however is a complex entity
with interacting biological physical and chemical processes that are rarely modelled in its
entirety. Additionally for the sake of simplicity various soil properties are considered
constants whereas in reality they are not. Soil as we observe it is the resultant of many
processes driven by varying boundary conditions such as climate and organisms including men.
This is not different when we study global change thus modelling soil development under global
change overlaps with modelling soil formation. This book gives an overview of what such model
should entail with ample descriptions to use SoilGen a simulattion model to study
pedogenesis.
