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  title info:
    title: Developments in Soil Classification, Land Use Planning and Policy Implications
    sub title: Innovative Thinking of Soil Inventory for Land Use Planning and Management of Land Resources
  name:
    name part: Shahid, Shabbir A.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Taha, Faisal K.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Abdelfattah, Mahmoud A.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XLVI, 867 p. 229 illus., 160 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This important addition to the technical literature of ecology is a storehouse of information on soil that includes inventories, material on databases, and details of policy developments. Soil may be just brown dirt to most people, but its sustained health is vital to the world’s ecosystems, and it is under threat as never before from contamination, degradation and salinization, among other issues. Yet soil is a precious resource: it is the essence of life, the location of innumerable chemical reactions, a filtration and nutritive system for water itself, and a versatile, if vulnerable, growing medium. Care is needed in looking after soil, since it renews itself only slowly. As the world’s population continues to expand, maintaining and indeed increasing agricultural productivity is more important than ever, though it is also more difficult than ever in the face of changing weather patterns that in some cases are leading to aridity and desertification. The absence of scientific soil inventories, especially in arid areas, leads to mistaken decisions about soil use that, in the end, reduce a region’s capacity to feed its population, or to guarantee a clean water supply. Greater efficiency in soil use is possible when these resources are properly classified using international standards. Focusing on arid regions, this volume details soil classification from many countries. It is only once this information is properly assimilated by policymakers it becomes a foundation for informed decisions in land use planning for rational and sustainable uses.
  table of contents: Part I Soil Survey and Classification Strategies in Different Ecological Zones.- 1 Innovative Thinking for Sustainable Use of Terrestrial Resources in Abu Dhabi Emirate Through Scientific Soil Inventory and Policy Development.- 2 Demands on Soil Classification and Soil Survey Strategies: Special Purpose Soil Classification Systems for Local Practical Use.- 3 Reconnaissance Soil Survey for the State of Kuwait.- 4 Do the Emerging Methods of Digital Soil Mapping have Anything to Learn from the Geopedologic Approach to Soil Mapping and Vice Versa?.- 5 Soil Thematic Map and Land Capability Classification of Dubai Emirate.- 6 Land Evaluation Interpretations and Decision Support Systems - Soil Survey of Abu Dhabi Emirate.- 7 Conceptual Soil-Regolith Toposequence Models to Support Soil Survey and Land Evaluation.- 8 Anhydrite Formation on the Coastal Sabkha of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.- 9 Fundamental Steps for Regional and Country Level Soil Surveys.- 10 Assessment of Soil Diversity in Western Siberia Using WRB 2006.- 11 Classification of the Topsoil Fabrics in Arid Soils of Central Asia.- 12 Digital Mapping of Gypsic Horizon Morphotypes and Soil Salinity in an Old Alluvial Piedmont Plain of Uzbekistan.- 13 Soils in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions: The Past as Key for the Future.- 14 Classification, Characterization and Suitability Evaluation of the Savanna Soils of Oyo North of Nigeria.- 15 Use of Soil Survey Database for the Probabilistic Evaluation of Soil Cover Transformation in the Semi-Arid Zone of Western Siberia.- 16 Soil Suitability of Northern State of Sudan to Irrigated Agriculture.- 17 Effects of Plants on Soil Forming Processes: Case Studies from Arid Environments.- 18 The Sand Land Soil System Placement (Taxonomy) and Society.- 19 Digital Soil Mapping Using Spectral and Terrain Parameters and Statistical Modeling Integrated into GIS-Northwestern Coastal Region of Egypt.- 20 Studies on the Micromorphology of Salt-Affected Soils from El-Fayoum Depression, Egyp…
  note: edited by Shabbir A. Shahid, Faisal K. Taha, Mahmoud A. Abdelfattah.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Computer graphics
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Literacy
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Environment, general
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences, general
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry/Food Science, general
  subject:
    topic: Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics
  subject:
    topic: Literacy
  subject:
    topic: Geography, general
  classification: GE1-350
  classification: 333.7
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      title: Springer eBooks
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