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  title info:
    title: Soil Degradation, Conservation and Remediation
  name:
    name part: Osman, Khan Towhid.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 237 p. 63 illus., 34 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book views soil as a fundamental resource that must urgently be protected, preserved and restored, in order to secure food for the ever-increasing human population and to maintain the health and quality of the Earth’s ecosystems. It emphasizes the immediate and long-lasting impacts of soil degradation on agricultural productivity (crops, livestock, and fisheries), air and water quality, health of organisms, and the planet’s life support-systems. This book highlights the mutual relationships of terrestrial ecosystems with their physical environments, and stresses that when the soil is degraded, a concomitant deterioration takes place in the whole ecosystem. Throughout history, soil degradation has, in fact, played a crucial role in the collapse of many civilizations. This book comprehensively describes soil degradation in terms of: · Causes: deforestation, vegetation over-exploitation, shifting cultivation, overgrazing, unbalanced fertilizer use, over-extraction of ground water, etc. · Processes: soil compaction, surface crusting, soil-fertility depletion, water erosion, wind erosion, salinization, soil pollution, etc. · Conservation and Remediation Measures: soil amendments, decompaction, mulching, cover cropping, crop rotation, green manuring, contour farming, strip cropping, alley cropping, surface roughening, windbreaks, terracing, sloping agricultural land technology (SALT), dune stabilization, etc. Numerous examples, figures and tables enhance the presentation, leading the reader from the basics to a comprehensive understanding of soil degradation, conservation and remediation. Study questions at the end of each chapter help to reinforce concepts. While the text will be of particular interest to undergraduate students in grasping the fundamentals of soil science, it will also be of interest to graduate students and those in agricultural, biological and environmental sciences who study soil and its sustainable management. Professionals, including agronomist…
  table of contents: Soil Resources and Soil Degradation -- Physical Deterioration of Soil -- Soil Erosion by Water -- Wind Erosion -- Chemical Soil Degradation -- Soil Pollution -- Index.
  note: by Khan Towhid Osman.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Forestry
  subject:
    topic: Soil science
  subject:
    topic: Soil conservation
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Soil Science & Conservation
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences, general
  subject:
    topic: Forestry
  classification: QH541.5.S6
  classification: S622-627
  classification: 631.4
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9789400775909
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7590-9
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    record creation date: 131001
    record change date: 20151204190114.0
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