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  title info:
    title: Land Use and Soil Resources
  name:
    name part: Braimoh, Ademola K.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Vlek, Paul L. G.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXII, 254 p. online resource.
  abstract: Land-use change is one of the main drivers of many environmental change processes. It influences the basic resources of land use, including the soil. Its impact on soil often occurs so creepingly that land managers hardly contemplate initiating ameliorative or counterbalance measures. Poor land management has degraded vast amounts of land, reduced our ability to produce enough food, and is a major threat to rural livelihoods in many developing countries. To date, there has been no single unifying volume that addresses the multifaceted impacts of land use on soils. This book has responded to this challenge by bringing together renowned academics and policy experts to analyze the patterns, driving factors and proximate causes, and the socioeconomic impacts of soil degradation. Policy measures to prevent irreversible degradation and rehabilitate degraded soils are also identified.
  table of contents: Impact of Land Use on Soil Resources -- Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics and Land-Use Change -- Land-Use Change and Global Food Production -- Soil Erosion and Conservation in Global Agriculture -- Soil Erosion Studies in Northern Ethiopia -- Soil Degradation Under Irrigation -- Nutrient and Virtual Water Flows in Traded Agricultural Commodities -- The Lesson of Drente's “Essen”: Soil Nutrient Depletion in sub-Saharan Africa and Management Strategies for Soil Replenishment -- Soil Quality and Methods for its Assessment -- The Impact of Urbanization on Soils.
  note: edited by Ademola K. Braimoh, Paul L. G. Vlek.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geobiology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental sciences
  subject:
    topic: Physical geography
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Soil science
  subject:
    topic: Soil conservation
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Science and Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Environment, general
  subject:
    topic: Soil Science & Conservation
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Management
  subject:
    topic: Physical Geography
  subject:
    topic: Biogeosciences
  classification: GE1-350
  classification: 628
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781402067785
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6778-5
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    record change date: 20151204172122.0
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