Sedimentology and pedology

The use of natural and seeded grass pastures for the feeding of livestock and other unfamiliar uses for the ubiquitous grass family are described in this succinct and beautifully illustrated work.

The soil is one of the great unsung disappearing resources, with over 100m tonnes being destroyed every year.

For developing nations, soil erosion is among the most chronic environmental and economic burdens.

This book provides a risk-based framework for developing and implementing strategies to manage PCB-contaminated sediments at sites around the country.

How can the United States meet demands for agricultural production while solving the broader range of environmental problems attributed to farming practices?

This valuable book summarizes recent research by experts from both the natural and social sciences on the effects of population growth on land use.

How can high-growth areas such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America sustain agricultural production for current and future generations?

Written by the foremost authorities in the field, this volume brings together the technical papers from which Volume 1 is drawn.

This new volume is the first independent analysis of an important national data base, the National Resources Inventory.

This book presents state-of-the-art knowledge related to concerns about methylmercury (MeHg) in the soil-rice system.

Earthquake-induced soil liquefaction (liquefaction) is a leading cause of earthquake damage worldwide.

This book provides a risk-based framework for developing and implementing strategies to manage PCB-contaminated sediments at sites around the country.

The Second International Symposium on the East African Lakes was held from 10-15 January 2000 at Club Makokola on the southern shore of Lake Malawi.

Paleomagnetic data are useful in many applications in Earth Science from determining paleocurrent directions to analyzing the long-term behavior of the geomagnetic field.

Paleolimnology is a rapidly developing science that is now being used to study a suite of environmental and ecological problems.

It is difficult for today's students of archaeology to imagine an era when chronometric dating methods were unavailable.

As the demand for healthy and sustainable food options increases, organic farming is becoming a viable alternative to conventional farming practices that traditionally rely heavily on synthetic inputs.

The Tank Cascade System (TCS) of Sri Lanka is a connected series of tanks organized within a micro-catchment of a dry zone landscape for storing, conveying, and utilizing water from a temporary stream.

The Tank Cascade System (TCS) of Sri Lanka is a connected series of tanks organized within a micro-catchment of a dry zone landscape for storing, conveying, and utilizing water from a temporary stream.

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.

This handbook offers effective strategies to modify and adjust crop production processes to decrease the toxicity of soil contaminants, balance soil pH, improve root growth and nutrient uptake, and increase agricultural yield.

Designed to provide engineers with quick access to current and practical information on the dynamics of structure and foundation, this unique work, consisting of two separately available volumes, serves as a complete reference, especially for those involved with earthquake or dynamic analysis, or the design of machine foundations in the oil, gas, a

Unsaturated Soils: Advances in Geo-Engineering comprises 136 contributions from leading international researchers and practitioners, presented at the First European Conference on Unsaturated Soils (Durham, UK, 2-4 July 2008).

Freshly updated and extended version of Slope Analysis (Chowdhury, Elsevier, 1978).

Soil and Water Contamination, Second Edition gives a structured overview of transport and fate processes of environmental contaminants.

The increasing awareness of the effects of pollutants in the eco-system and on the development of suitable methods of analysis has stimulated a lot of research recently.

A perpetual bestseller, this third edition explores environmental quality from the perspective of soil science.

Wetland ecosystems maintain a fragile balance of soil, water, plant, and atmospheric components in order to regulate water flow, flooding, and water quality.

Coastal Lagoons: Ecosystem Processes and Modeling for Sustainable Use and Development describes the concepts, models, and data needed to design and implement management programs for long-term sustainability of coastal lagoons.

Providing an introduction, the scientific background, case studies and future perspectives of in-situ arsenic remediation technologies for soils, soil water and groundwater at geogenic and anthropogenic contaminated sites.

Residual soils are found in many parts of the world and are used extensively as construction materials for roads, embankments and dams, and to support the foundations of buildings, bridges and load-bearing pavements.

Dry areas suffer not only from limited rainfall but alsonatural leakage'-90% of rainwater is lost directly or indirectly, and is unavailable for agriculture or domestic use.

Digital soil assessments and beyond contains papers presented at the 5th Global Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping, held 10-13 April 2012 at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Residual soils are found in many parts of the world.

The scaling issue remains one of the largest problems in soil science and hydrology.

There have been many advances in soil chemistry since Oxford published the first edition of The Chemistry of Soils in 1989.

Soils, invaluable indicators of the nature and history of the physical and human landscape, have strongly influenced the cultural record left to archaeologists.

In recent years, viticulture has seen phenomenal growth, particularly in such countries as Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Chile, and South Africa.

The first edition of Understanding Vineyard Soils has been praised for its comprehensive coverage of soil topics relevant to viticulture.

There have been many advances in soil chemistry since Oxford published the first edition of The Chemistry of Soils in 1989.

Principles and Standards for Measuring Net Primary Production in Long-Term Ecological Studies is the first book to establish a standardized method for measuring net primary productivity (NPP) in ecological research.

In recent years, viticulture has seen phenomenal growth, particularly in such countries as Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Chile, and South Africa.

Written in a clear, accessible style, this book covers the fundamental aspects of soil science with an emphasis on topics useful to landscape architects and professionals in related fields.

Phosphorus is essential to the production of our food, and it also triggers algal blooms in lakes, rivers, and oceans when it slips through our hands.

Agricultural ecology, or agroecology, deals in general with the structure and function of agroecosystems at different levels of resolution.

This is a completely revised edition of the previously titled Solute Movement in the Soil-Root System.

This text, written by a leading researcher in the field, describes the origin and formation of lakes in order to give context to the question of how lacustrine deposits form.

Soils, invaluable indicators of the nature and history of the physical and human landscape, have strongly influenced the cultural record left to archaeologists.