Soil science and management

In allen wichtigen Medien wurden in den letzten Jahren Themen wie Wohngifte, Nahrungsmittelgifte und Umweltgifte abgehandelt und ihre Wirkung auf die menschliche Gesundheit diskutiert.

In the continuing fight against organic environmental xenobiotics, the initial success attributed to bioremediation has paled, in part due to the low availability of xenobiotics entrapped within a soil or sediment matrix.

This textbook presents the concepts and processes involved in the soil-plant-atmosphere system as well as its applications in the water cycle in agriculture.

This interdisciplinary proceedings book addresses highly relevant topics in urbanization and its environmental impacts and presents case studies revealing the negative environmental consequences of the anthropogenic and technogenic pressures.

This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the soils of Sri Lanka.

The increasing human population and the associated activities have negatively influenced the ecosystems and life on earth.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of strategies to combat pressing environmental challenges, focusing on pollution remediation and climate change mitigation.

This volume contains 22 chapters introducing a wide range of semi-arid and geologic landscapes.

Developments in Geotechnical Engineering, Volume 19: Stabilized Earth Roads surveys soil stabilization theory and practice.

This edited book provides critical insights into changing climate's impact on agriculture and innovative strategies for building resilience.

Perspectives on Biogeochemistry is an account of the origin of forces and matter at the dawn of time, and the way they evolved to planet Earth of today.

This book focuses on skeleton-degradable soils, including three typical degradation processes of soil skeletons: soil particle breakage, chemical degradation, and biochemical degradation.

On May 25,1978, the Commission on Toxicology ofthe Division of Clinical Chemistry of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) established its Subcommittee on Environmental and Occupational Toxicology of Cadmium following aseries of Commission meetings in Kristiansand, Norway.

Coal Combustion Byproducts and Environmental Issues addresses the major implications and critical issues surrounding coal combustion products and their impact upon the environment.

Diffusion in Natural Porous Media: Contaminant Transport, Sorption/Desorption and Dissolution Kinetics introduces the general principles of diffusion in the subsurface environment and discusses the implications for the fate and transport of contaminants in soils and groundwater.

Researchers now recognize that above- and belowground communities are indirectly linked to one another, often by plant-mediated mechanisms.

The world needs for food and fiber continue to increase.

This is the second of two volumes that together provide a global overview of the impact of agriculture on soil degradation, tracing the most critical drivers like the use and abuse of agrochemicals, mechanization, overgrazing, irrigation, slash and burn agriculture, and the use of plastics.

Plant-parasitic nematodes are recognized as one of the greatest threats to crop production throughout the world.

The first premise of this book is that farmers need access to options for improving their situation.

This book provides guidelines for using a new approach of resampling the Cs-137 radionuclide tracer which is used to estimate soil erosion rates.

This book reviews the history and development of rhizobial ecology (diversity, function and interactions with the biotic and abiotic environments), evolution (genome diversification, systematics of symbiotic genes) and application.

In a convenient, single-source reference, this book examines plant growth substances and their relationship to a wide range of physiological processes, ranging from seed germination through the death of the plant.

This book presents a detailed study of the thermal consolidation behavior of saturated clay from experimental and theoretical aspects, analyzes the thermal consolidation response of saturated clay under the influence of different drainage conditions, confining pressures, temperature paths, and over-consolidation ratios, and carries out theoretical modelling of thermal consolidation based on thermoelasticity theory.

Viele Fragen zur Auswirkung der Energiewende auf die Böden und die Landwirtschaft werden beantwortet.

Integrated Management of Salt Affected Soils in Agriculture is a concise guide to evaluating and addressing soil issues related to saline content.

This book presents a comprehensive and detailed description of remediation techniques for metal-contaminated soils derived from both natural processes and anthropogenic activities.

Until the late 1970s, most commercial power plant operators outside the United States adopted a spent fuel management policy of immediate reprocessing and recycling of recovered products.

At the dawn of the 21st century, biotechnology is emerging as a key enabling technology for sustainable environmental protection and stewardship.

In the past decades, environmental scientists, economists and physicists have been juggling critical issues within environmental strategies and environmental management styles in order to find a feasible medium between limited resources, long term demands and objectives, and interest groups.

The studies in this volume provide an ethnography of a plantation frontier in central Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.

Advances in Agronomy has the highest impact factor among serial publications in Agriculture.

This book contains the proceedings of the `8th Nitrogen Workshop' which was held at the University of Ghent, Belgium, from 5 to 8 September 1994.

This textbook provides practical guidelines on conducting experiments across the entire spectrum of environmental biotechnology.

Das Auffinden und die Sanierung von Altlasten entwickelt sich zu einer der zentralen Aufgaben von Naturwissenschaftlern, Ingenieuren und Beamten von regionalen, nationalen und internationalen Behörden im Umweltbereich.

Environmental considerations are playing an increasingly important role in determining management strategies for soil and land.

This volume contains selected contributions from geoENV III - the Third European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Sciences, held in Avignon, France in November 2000.

This book describes the environment in Galicia (NW Spain), with researchers and professors presenting their own photographs of relevant aspects.

This textbook addresses the increasing trend in urbanization of the world's population and its relation with urban soils.

Water is vital to life, maintenance of ecological balance, economic development, and sustenance of civilization.

Under ongoing climate change, natural and cultivated habitats of major food crops are being continuously disturbed.

The world population in 1930 was 2 billion.

This book comprises select proceedings of the annual conference of the Indian Geotechnical Society.

This book investigates the effect of the Green Revolution (GR) on long-term changes in the fertility status of paddy soils in tropical Asia.

The Rhizobiaceae, Molecular Biology of Model Plant-Associated Bacteria.