Soil science and management

The book describes the complex and variable laws addressing site contamination, reviewing existing international, regional and national law of relevance to site contamination.

Land degradation in drylands is a multi-faceted problem.

The papers assembled here cover topics such as technological advances in soil salinity mapping and monitoring, management and reclamation of salt-affected soils, use of marginal quality water for crop production, salt-tolerance mechanisms in plants, biosaline agriculture and agroforestry, microbiological interventions for marginal soils, opportunities and challenges in using marginal waters, and soil and water management in irrigated agriculture.

Aimed at taking the mystery out of soil science, Soils: Principles, Properties and Management is a text for undergraduate/graduate students who study soil as a natural resource.

Mexico is an extensive country with an extremely complex mosaic of landscapes.

The Soils of Italy is the first comprehensive book on Italian pedology in seventy years.

Soil as World Heritage celebrates a half century of field experiments on the Balti Steppe, in Moldova - where Dokuchaev first described the Typical Chernozem in 1877, protected from the elements by a unique system of shelter belts designed by the great man, and now provisionally listed as the first World Heritage Site for soil.

Nitrous oxide gas is a long-lived relatively active greenhouse gas (GHG) with an atmospheric lifetime of approximately 120 years, and heat trapping effects about 310 times more powerful than carbon dioxide per molecule basis.

This volume contains a solid body of the current state of knowledge on the various themes and activities in agroforestry worldwide.

The book gives a detailed description of the application of DSSAT in simulating crop and soil processes within various Agro-ecological zones in Africa.

Rice is the staple food for half of the world's population.

This book elucidates the importance of long-term experiments in revealing evidence of soil fertility decline in Africa.

This is a solitary attempt to streamline all the possible information related to citrus nutrition, with emphasis on diagnosis and management of nutrient constraints, employing a variety of state-of-art techniques evolved globally over the years .

Urbanization drastically alters the ecosystems structure and functions, disrupts cycling of C and other elements along with water.

This book summarizes a long-term research project addressing land and water use in the irrigated areas of the Aral Sea basin.

This book provides the reader with the comprehensive view necessary to understand and critically evaluate the design, implementation, and monitoring of phytoremediation at sites characterized by contaminated groundwater.

Emerging Development of Agriculture in East Africa offers case studies that find promise in many new innovations.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the soils of Bangladesh.

This book collects most of the contributions prepared for the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on Environmental Challenges in the Mediterranean 2000-2050.

Fifteen years have passed since a small group of researchers at the Czech Geo- logical Survey boldly convened a conference called GEOMON, Geochemical Monitoring in Representative Basins, held in Prague in 1987.

In an effort to implement conservation measures farmers have used a variety of production methods, including the use of reduced or zero tillage and cover crops.

Due to many challenges (i.

Wine has been described as a window into places, cultures and times.

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for our children.

As the world population is exploding and alongside fluctuations in climate is also prevalent, there is an increasing stress on the food requirements of the population.

This book, the only one of its kind on ravine lands, reflects the significant advances made over the past two decades in our understanding of gully erosion, its controlling factors, and various aspects of gully erosion.

Soil analysis is critically important in the management of soil-based production systems.

In any ecosystem, plant and microbe interaction is inevitable.

This book explores basic and applied aspects of microorganisms, which have a unique ability to cope with abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity and changing climate, as well as biodegrader microorganisms and their functional roles.

The book focuses in detail on learning and adapting through partnerships between managers, scientists, and other stake-holders who learn together how to create and maintain sustainable resource systems.

This report proposes a research program to determine the suitability of Vetiver grass for slope protection and the potential of liquid soil catalysts for improving soil-bearing capacity in Cambodia.

This standard work on contaminated site management covers the whole chain of steps involved in dealing with contaminated sites, from site investigation to remediation.

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for our children.

This book addresses an important topic of food security in South Asia with specific reference to climate change.

This book contains 9 invited keynote and 12 theme lectures presented at the 14th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering (14ECEE) held in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, from August 30 to September 3, 2010.

Digital Soil Mapping is the creation and the population of a geographically referenced soil database.

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children.

Land Degradation and Desertification: Assessment, Mitigation, and Remediation reports research results in sustainable land management and land degradation status and mitigation in 36 countries around the world.

Agriculture increasingly faces the challenge of balancing its multiple functions in a sustainable way.

Carbon Sequestration in Forest Ecosystems is a comprehensive book describing the basic processes of carbon dynamics in forest ecosystems, their contribution to carbon sequestration and implications for mitigating abrupt climate change.

Anthropogenic geomorphology studies society's impact on the geographical environment, and especially on the Earth's surface.

The 9th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium (9HUES) was held in Madrid, Spain, from 9-11 June 2008.

SOIL: beneath our feet / food and fiber / ashes to ashes, dust to dust / dirt!

Sustainable Development has become the leading concept of the 21 century.

Understanding water circulation in rocks represents a very important element to solving many of the problems linked with civil, environmental and mining engineering.

The book contains the contributions at the NATO Study Institute on Exposure and Risk Assessment of Chemical Pollution - Contemporary Methodology, which took place in Sofia - Borovetz, Bulgaria, July 1-10, 2008.

This book focuses on the most recent developments in bioremediation techniques, exploring how microorganisms can break down different pollutants and the future potential of bioremediation to reduce global pollution levels.

The potassium solubilizing microorganisms (KSMs) are a rhizospheric microorganism which solubilizes the insoluble potassium (K) to soluble forms of K for plant growth and yield.

This book describes the mechanisms of nutrient taken up by plants at the biochemical and molecular level.

This book addresses in detail multifaceted approaches to boosting nutrient use efficiency (NUE) that are modified by plant interactions with environmental variables and combine physiological, microbial, biotechnological and agronomic aspects.