Soil science and management

The Symposium on high salinity tolerant plants, held at the University of Al Ain in December 1990, dealt primarily with plants tolerating salinity levels exceeding that of ocean water and which at the same time are promising for utilization in agriculture or forestry.

This book provides an extensive overview of the diversity of soils in Georgia.

Scientific reserach on natural disasters is now implementing new methodologies and aproaches as consequences of: 1.

"e;Field screening"e; indicates field analytical tools, and (quick) methods and strategies for on-site or in-situ environmental analysis and assessment of contamination.

Human activities have dramatically changed the composition and organisation of soils.

Global change, land use policies and EU enlargement affect the driving forces for landscape functioning, land use management and rural development.

This updated and revised second edition brings geopedology issues into the current context.

Over forty years ago, concern was first focussed on cadmium contamination of soils, fertilisers and the food chain.

The book is designed to serve as a textbook for graduate and undergraduate courses on soil and water conservation engineering for students of agricultural engineering, civil engineering, environmental engineering and related disciplines.

This book focuses on the impact of climate change on India, addressing environmental problems and conducting an analysis of the climate change impact on mitigation processes.

This book provides up-to-date information on biochar use in management of soil health, agriculture productivity, green-house gases, restoration ecology and environment.

This book addresses basic and applied aspects of two nexus points of microorganisms in agro-ecosystems, namely their functional role as bio-fertilizers and bio-pesticides.

Earthwork projects are critical components in civil construction and often require detailed management techniques and unique solution methods to address failures.

Greenhouse cultivation is noted for its high uptake of minerals, consistent climatic conditions, exclusion of natural precipitation and control of salt accumulation.

This book summarizes the outcomes of research results based on field works and recent studies related to soil cover of the dried Aral seabed in Kazakhstan.

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

This book capitalizes on data collected by the Natural Resources Conservation Service & other organizations over the past 100+ years & offers the first comprehensive treatment of Mississippi soils.

Any numerical subsurface model is comprised of three components: a theoretical basis to translate our understanding phenomena into partial differential equations and boundary conditions, a numerical method to approximate these governing equations and implement the boundary conditions, and a computer implementation to generate a generic code for research as well as for practical applications.

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of the development of concepts and methodology of hydrological sys- tems analysis and its wide range of practical applications.

Motor des technischen Fortschritts und der Entwicklung des Wohlstandes in den Industrieländern ist die elektrische Energie.

Der Begriff Umweltschutztechnik verbindet Schutz der Umwelt als Vorsorgeprinzip und Wiederherstellung geschädigter Ökosysteme mit technischen Mitteln.

In recent years, radioactive contamination in the environment by uranium (U) and its daughters has caused increasing concerns globally.

This books gives a complete overview of the Soils of Slovenia, from soil research history, climate, geology, geomorphology, major soil types, soil maps, soil propoerties, classification, fertility, land use and vegetation, soil management, soils and humans, soils and industries and future soils issues.

Since the mining industry is still expanding, comprehensive information on the effects of mining activities on the environment is needed.

Pollution is one of the most serious issues facing mankind and other life forms on earth.

Electronic and electric waste (e-waste), defined as end-of-life electronic products, including computers, television sets, mobile phones, transformers, capacitors, wires and cables, are a major global environmental concern.

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

This early work on the fertilisers and manure concentrates on the chemistry behind them, examining their different types and how they are made.

This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics.

An Introduction to Environmental Biotechnology provides an introduction to the subject of environmental biotechnology.

This book discusses the cross-talk between plants and microbes in the rhizosphere.

Computational Subsurface Hydrology: Fluid Flows offers practicing engineers and scientists a theoretical background, numerical methods, and computer codes for the modeling of fluid flows in subsurface media.

This book presents the soil pedodiversity in Libya.

Soil acidity is a major limitation to crop production in many parts of the world.

The book contains the contributions at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Soil Chemical Pollution, Risk Assessment, Remediation and Security, which took place in Sofia, Bulgaria, May 23-26, 2007.

The storage of carbon in forest ecosystems has received special attention in the Kyoto protocol of the Climate Convention, which attempts to equilibrate fossil fuel emissions with biological sinks.

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

This book describes a pathway for sustainable phosphorus management via the Global Transdisciplinary Processes for Sustainable Phosphorus Management project (Global TraPs).

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

Plants require essential nutrients (macronutrients and micronutrients) for normal functioning.

This book collates, reviews and synthesizes information on how soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks differ among major terrestrial biomes of the U.

Research in Antarctica in the past two decades has fundamentally changed our perceptions of the southern continent.

This book will address the major subsoil physical and chemical constraints and their implications to crop production; Plant growth is often restricted by adverse physical and chemical properties of subsoils yet these limitations are not revealed by testing surface soils and hence their significance in crop management is often overlooked.