Sustainable Land Management Learning from the Past for the Future /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kapur, Selim (Editor), Eswaran, Hari (Editor), Blum, Winfried E.H (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Environment.; Geobiology.; Geographical information systems.; Agriculture.; Landscape ecology.; Soil science.; Soil conservation.; Soil Science & Conservation.; Landscape Ecology.; Biogeosciences.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.

Soil quality is threatened by many human-induced activities, but can also be improved by good land management. In the relatively short history of mankind on earth, the landscape and soils of the world have been drastically modified from their "natural " state. Landscapes altered by man...