Soil science and management

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.

The importance to preserve soil and water have is increasingly recognized.

This textbook focuses specifically on the combined topics of irrigation and drainage engineering.

Few topics cut across the soil science discipline wider than research on soil carbon.

This book presents a beautifully illustrated overview of the most prominent landscapes of South Africa and the distinctive landforms associated with them.

The purpose of this book is to help early career professionals in agriculture and natural resources write their research papers for high-quality journals and present their results properly at professional meetings.

Forest soil characteristics are not only unique but their interpretation also differs from cropland soils.

The term "e;Soil Security"e; is used in the context of maintaining the quality and quantity of soil needed in order to ensure continuous supplies of food and fresh water for our society.

This book demonstrates the measurement, monitoring, mapping and modelling of soil pollution and land resources.

This book discusses Nevada in the context of the history of soil investigations; soil-forming factors; general soil regions; soil geomorphology; taxonomic structure of the soils; taxonomic soil regions; soil-forming processes; benchmark, endemic, rare, and endangered soils; and use of soils.

Dokuchaev carried out most of his research in Ukraine.

This book presents an important discussion on soil and sustainable agriculture from a range of perspectives, addressing key topics such as sustainable intensification, the FAO Voluntary Guidelines, and the crucial role of appropriate tenure rights.

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.

The introduction of contaminants, due to rapid urbanisation and anthropogenic activities, into the environment causes unsteadiness, distress to the physico-chemical systems including living organisms, which possibly is threatening the dynamics of nature as well as the soil biology by producing certain xenobiotics.

This two-volume work is a testament to the increasing interest in the role of microbes in sustainable agriculture and food security.

This book focuses on regions for which until now the geomorphology was very poorly studied and relatively unknown.

This work focuses on the potential impact of climate change on soil erosion in a monsoon-dominated sub-tropical region.

This two-volume work is an effort to provide a common platform to environmental engineers, microbiologists, chemical scientists, plant physiologists and molecular biologists working with a common aim of sustainable solutions to varied environmental contamination issues.

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

This book highlights recent advances in the discipline of biogeochemistry that have directly resulted from the development of critical zone (CZ) science.

This book explains the tragic tale of the Satluj floodplain since its inception.

Degradation of agricultural catchments due to water erosion is a major environmental threat at the global scale, with long-lasting destructive consequences valued at tens of billions of dollars per annum.

This book encompasses current knowledge of soil microbiomes and their potential biotechnological application for plant growth, crop yield, and soil health under the natural as well as harsh environmental conditions for sustainable agriculture.

Soil is an important but often neglected element of the climate system.

Landscapes and Landforms of the Slovakia provides an attractive physiographical overview of the most prominent landscapes of Slovakia and the distinctive landforms associated with them.

This book provides an overview of the current development status of remediation technologies involving electrochemical processes, which are used to clean up soils that are contaminated with different types of contaminants (organics, inorganics, metalloids and radioactive).

This book narrates how the study of the soil became a science and institutionalized in the USA between 1860 and 1960.

This book provides case studies on cultivating alternative crops and presents new cropping systems in many regions of the world.

Bioremediation is the use of microorganisms' metabolism to degrade waste contaminants (sewage, domestic, and industrial effluents) into non-toxic or less toxic materials by natural biological processes.

The advent of X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) as a tool for the soil sciences almost 40 years ago has revolutionised the field.

Soils are neither good nor bad, but some have inherent or acquired characteristics that may or may not suit our intended use.

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.

The search for new strategies of pest control with safer molecules is currently of great importance and interest.

This work focuses on the potential impact of climate change on soil erosion in a monsoon-dominated sub-tropical region.

This book addresses the impact of soil and water quality on food production, and explores soil and water conservation measures to be applied at farm level for agricultural sustainability.

Much of the earth's population is dependent on agriculture as it provides food for their sustenance.