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Farmers and ranchers, private sector businesses, non‐governmental organizations (NGOs), academic‐, state‐, and federal‐research projects, as well as state and federal soil conservation, water quality and other environmental programs have begun to adopt soil health as a unifying goal and promote it through workshops, books, and public awareness meetings and campaigns. The driver is an increased awareness that soil resources are crucial for not only meeting global demand for high‐quality food, feed, and fiber but also to help mitigate more extreme weather events and to protect water and air quality, wildlife habitat, and biodiversity.

Volume 1 briefly reviews selected “Approaches to Soil Health Analysis” including a brief history of the concept, challenges and opportunities, meta‐data and assessment, applications to forestry and urban land reclamation, and future soil health monitoring and evaluation approaches.

Volume 2 focuses on “Laboratory Methods for Soil Health Analysis” including an overview and suggested analytical approaches intended to provide meaningful, comparable data so that soil health can be used to guide restoration and protection of our global soil resources.