Sedimentology and pedology

Soils comprise the largest pool of terrestrial carbon and therefore are an important component of carbon storage in the biosphere-atmosphere system.

The potential to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and global climate change is one factor driving agricultural policy development of programs that might pay farmers for practices with a high potential to sequester carbon.

This book presents selected articles from the workshop on "e;Challenges in Petrophysical Evaluation and Rock Physics Modeling of Carbonate Reservoirs"e; held at IIT Bombay in November 2017.

This book discusses various issues related to Rainfed Agriculture, for example: Soil and water conservation Drought management strategies Rain-water harvesting Crops and cropping system for dryland agriculture Conservation agriculture Climate-smart agriculture and watershed management The subject matter is both narrative and critical, explained with illustrations and tables.

Contaminants and Clean Technologies provides valuable information on environmental contaminants such as industrial pollutants, micropollutants, pesticides, endocrine disruptors, pharmaceuticals, toxins, and hormones.

This handbook series includes several naturally occurring chemicals that exhibit biological activity.

Soil Fertility Evaluation and Control presents the theoretical background for practical applications of scientific work on soil fertility.

The use of nanotechnology in agriculture has created many concerns related to toxicity and environmental implications.

Arsenic is one of the most toxic and carcinogenic elements in the environment.

An Introduction to Soils for Environmental Professionals assembles and presents the basic principles of each of the major soil science fields.

Plant Growth Regulators to Manage Biotic and Abiotic Stress in Agroecosystems is a comprehensive book that explores the use of plant growth regulators (PGRs) as effective stress-reduction techniques in agricultural environments.

Scientists and consultants need to estimate and map properties of the terrestrial environment.

It is evident, that for a number of ecological and technical problems in rivers and lakes a better knowledge of sediment transport and sedimentation is needed together with the ability to predict and simulate sediment behaviour.

Integrating decades of research conducted by leading scientists in the field, Remote Sensing of Energy Fluxes and Soil Moisture Content provides an overview of state-of-the-art methods and modeling techniques employed for deriving spatio-temporal estimates of energy fluxes and soil surface moisture from remote sensing.

Landscapes of the past have always held an inherent fascination for ge- ologists because, like terrestrial sediments, they formed in our environment, not offshore on the sea floor and not deep in the subsurface.

The application of fractals and fractal geometry in soil science has become increasingly important over the last few years.

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This work examines the issue of accelerated soil erosion, which has become an increasingly serious concern in the twentieth century.

The ecological sciences are a diverse array of major scientific disciplines.

The monograph is concerned with results of studies of petrology of mafic-ultramafic massifs as part of the East Sakhalin ophiolite association.

Management of Problem Soils in Arid Ecosystems examines the challenges of managing soils in arid and semiarid regions.

This book explains the causes, mechanisms and dimension of sedimentation in theRupnarayan River, which offers a representative example of a tidal river combining fluvial and marine processes.

Originally published in 1982 and based on empirical research into the aftermath of the Friuli earthquake in Italy, the book reflects the perspective gained over a period of four years on the event itself and the subsequent response of the local population and national government.

Along much of the shoreline of the world, tidal inlets play an important role in nearshore processes, providing links between the coastal oceans and protected embayments.

This publication shows the three-dimensional configuration of the gigantic tectonic sag of the Osaka Bay sedimentary basin on the eastern Eurasian margin based on reflection seismic data never before published.

The book, written from the perspective of pedologists and agronomists, is a study of the Earth's crust which is subjected to climatic agents and inhabited by living creatures.

As society becomes stressed by economic and population pressures, in turn, nature's renewable resources become stressed by harvesting pressures.

Wetland identification, although theoretically straightforward, is not cut and dry as a practice.

Originally published in 2000, The Arctic provides a comprehensive overview of the region's rapidly changing physical and human dimensions, and demonstrates the importance of communication between natural scientists, social scientists, and local stakeholders in response to the tremendous challenges and opportunities facing the Arctic.

Covering climate, soils, crops, water quality, hydrology, and hydraulics, this textbook offers a perfect overview of irrigation engineering.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to techniques for quantitative subsidence analysis and visualization with example applications.

Authored by world-class scientists and scholars, The Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition, is an excellent reference for understanding the consequences of changing natural resources to the degradation of ecological integrity and the sustainability of life.

This book discusses how important nanotechnology is for increasing agricultural production through better management of the soil and water.

A multidisciplinary review of salt marshes, describing how they function and respond to external pressures such as sea-level rise.

Evapotranspiration in Agro-Ecosystems and Forestry: Spatio-temporal Applications presents the progress and advances made in terms of science and application of evaporation, transpiration, and evapotranspiration for various vegetation surfaces, water bodies, and bare soil under different soil and crop management (including different irrigation and tillage management) conditions.

The zone where land and sea meet is composed of a variety of complex environments.

The high-resolution palynological study of the varved sediments of Lake Montcortes has provided a unique record of the regional vegetation shifts over the last 3000 years and of the natural and anthropogenic drivers of ecological change, unparalleled in the Mediterranean.

A pioneering book highlighting the dynamic environmental dimensions of towns and villages and spatial connections with surrounding land.

Originally published in 1988 Deforestation examines deforestation as a major environmental and development problem.

This book focuses on the world's largest mangrove delta complex, located at Sundarban, a world heritage site, and on the relatively new and rapidly expanding scientific discipline of ichnology.

This book in two volumes, and with a foreword by the renowned Professor M.

Today, the agriculture industry is confronted with simultaneous issues of how to fully embrace mass production of safer food in terms of both quality and quantity.

A burial environment is a complex and dynamic system.

This book focuses on cold habitat microbes as a potential source of elite enzymes and secondary metabolites to meet the growing demands of the pharmaceutical, food and biotechnological industries.

This handbook series includes several naturally occurring chemicals that exhibit biological activity.

Plant biotechnology has come of age.

Nearly two billion people depend on hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers for food security.