Soil science and management

This edited volume focuses on the characterization, reclamation, bioremediation, and phytoremediation of salt affected soils and waterlogged sodic soils.

 This book discusses different aspects of contamination in Indian food products.

This book deals with a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children.

This book describes the vast variety of xenobiotics, such as pesticides, antibiotics, antibiotic resistance genes, agrochemicals and other pollutants, their interactions with the soil environment, and the currently available strategies and techniques for soil decontamination and bioremediation.

This book provides in-depth reviews of the effects of nanoparticles on the soil environment, their interactions with plants and also their potential applications as nanofertilizers and pesticides.

This textbook explains the various aspects of sustainable agricultures to undergraduate and graduate students.

This book discusses gritty issues that society faces every day: food and water security, environmental services provided by farmers, almost accidentally, and taken for granted by everyone else, the capability of the land to provide our needs today and for the foreseeable future and pollution of soil, air and water.

This book reports an approach developed to research and apply methods of assessing patterns of processes in the landscape, and suitability of different types of vegetation to mitigate soil erosion and sediment flux.

This book describes and provides many detailed examples of implementing Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) using R.

This book introduces the concept of soil security and its five dimensions: Capability, Capital, Condition, Connectivity and Codification.

This volume looks at the impact that different cropping systems and tillage have on soil's biologically active substances.

This book addresses issues arising from discharge of effluents from sugar industry on to surrounding land or into a water body such as physicochemical properties of soil, changes in the micro flora, quantification of soil enzyme activities as influenced by effluents.

The first volume of the International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy includes an important discussion on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals that are the basis for the post-2015 development agenda up to the year 2030; the Yearbook focuses in particular on Goal 15, which includes achieving a "e;land degradation-neutral world.

This book provides an overview of the distribution, properties, and function of soils in the U.

This text details the plant-assisted remediation method, "e;phytoremediation,"e; which involves the interaction of plant roots and associated rhizospheric microorganisms for the remediation of soil contaminated with high levels of metals, pesticides, solvents, radionuclides, explosives, crude oil, organic compounds and various other contaminants.

This edited book is devoted to environmental risk management in gas industry impacted polar ecosystems of Russia, one of the hottest topics of modern environmental science.

This book details the plant-assisted remediation method, "e;phytoremediation"e;, which involves the interaction of plant roots and associated rhizospheric microorganisms for the remediation of soil contaminated with high levels of metals, pesticides, solvents, radionuclides, explosives, crude oil, organic compounds and various other contaminants.

This book advances a three-step program for mitigation of natural and anthropogenic hazards, addressing mitigation economics and funding possibilities to meet the needs of at risk countries that lack the financial resources to invest in disaster reduction programs.

Soil is the most important natural non-renewable resource developed over a longer period of time due to weathering of rocks and subsequently enrichment of organic matter.

This introductory volume to a new series on Soil Forensics gives a kaleidoscopic view of a developing forensic expertise.

This richly illustrated book celebrates the diversity, importance, and intrinsic beauty of soils around the world and helps the reader to understand the ways that soils are related to the landscapes in which they form.

This book combines new quantitative erosion measurement methods with a geochemical fingerprint and a model-based approach to measure erosion and sediment flux in the Wadi Al-Arab, a Mediterranean to semi-arid catchment in northwest Jordan.

This book summarises the main results of many contributions from researchers worldwide who have used the water infiltration process to characterize soil in the field.

This book focuses on the taxonomic diversity of the genus Tuber as economically important truffles.

This volume summarizes our currentunderstanding of biological soil crusts (biocrusts), which are omnipresent indryland regions.

This book is about digital soil morphometrics which is defined as the application of tools and techniques for measuring, mapping and quantifying soil profile properties, and deriving depth functions of soil properties.

This is the first book to comprehensively discuss Ecuadorian soils.

This book presents an analysis of land and water resources in Siberia, initially characterizing the landscapes, their ecosystems, crucial processes, human impacts on soil and water quality, and the status quo of available research.

The book is a realistic blend of basic knowledge and understanding in soil physical properties.

This book provides a timely review of concepts in plant disease management involving microbial soil suppressiveness and organic amendments.

This book provides extensive and comprehensive information to researchers and academicians who are interested in radionuclide contamination, its sources and environmental impact.

This book features review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge.

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the soils of Spain gathered by a variety of Spanish experts in the field.

This book offers a proven approach for reliable mapping of soil-landscape relationships to derive information for policy, planning and management at scales ranging from local to regional.

The book presents the processes governing the dynamics of landscapes, soils and sediments, water and energy under different climatic regions using studies conducted in varied climatic zones including arid, semi-arid, humid and wet regions.

Achieving a sustainable agriculture requires integrating advances in multiples disciplines, covering both fundamental and applied research in a common objective: enhancing crop health for better productions.

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

Written by outstanding experts in the fields of marine engineering, atmospheric physics and chemistry, fluid dynamics and applied mathematics, the contributions in this book cover a wide range of subjects, from pure mathematics to real-world applications in the oil spill engineering business.

Following a description of the various sources and factors influencing the contents of heavy metal pollution in post-catastrophic and agricultural soils, subsequent chapters examine soil enzymes and eggs as bio-monitors, lead adsorption, the effects of arsenic on microbial diversity, and the effects of Mediterranean grasslands on abandoned mines.

This book addresses issues related to sources of groundwater pollution such as arsenic, uranium, fluoride and their effects on human health.

Conservation agriculture-consisting of four components including permanent soil cover, minimum soil disturbance, diversified crop rotations and integrated weed management-is considered the principal pathway to sustainable agriculture and the conservation of natural resources and the environment.

Nutrient Use Efficiency in Plants: Concepts and Approaches is the ninth volume in the Plant Ecophysiology series.

This 32-chapter volume represents the core of several oral and poster presentations made at the conference.

This volume discusses the general physics of debris flows and various approaches to modeling - including the SEGMENT-Landslide approach - as well as the pros and cons of these approaches and how other approaches are sub-sets of the SEGMENT-Landslide approach.

This is the first book solely devoted to Cryopedology, the study of soils of cold regions.

Hakan Wallander is a professor in Soil Biology and the reader is guided through the fascinating world below ground.

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

This book focuses on the mechanistic (microscopic) understanding of radionuclide uptake by plants in contaminated soils and potential use of phytoremediation.

Since 1980, our understanding of the factors and processes governing the distribution of soils on the Earth's surface has increased dramatically, as have the techniques for studying soil patterns.

This book divides Antarctica into eight ice-free regions and provides information on the soils of each region.