Soil Mapping and Process Modeling for Sustainable Land Use Management

• Author : Paulo Pereira,Eric Brevik,Miriam Muñoz-Rojas,Bradley Miller
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release Date : 2017-03-13
• ISBN : 9780128052013

Soil Mapping and Process Modeling for Sustainable Land Use Management is the first reference to address the use of soil mapping and modeling for sustainability from both a theoretical and practical perspective. The use of more powerful statistical techniques are increasing the accuracy of maps and reducing error estimation, and this text provides the information necessary to utilize the latest techniques, as well as their importance for land use planning. Providing practical examples to help illustrate the application of soil

• Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,Intergonevernmental Technical Panel on Soils
• Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
• Release Date : 2021-09-08
• ISBN : 9789251348932

During the last decades, soil organic carbon (SOC) attracted the attention of a much wider array of specialists beyond agriculture and soil science, as it was proven to be one of the most crucial components of the earth’s climate system, which has a great potential to be managed by humans. Soils as a carbon pool are one of the key factors in several Sustainable Development Goals, in particular Goal 15, “Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably

• Author : Fernando António Leal Pacheco
• Publisher : MDPI
• Release Date : 2020-04-30
• ISBN : 9783039286447

This book on the sustainable use of soils and water addressed a variety of issues related to the utopian desire for environmental sustainability and the deviations from this scene observed in the real world. Competing interests for land are frequently a factor in land degradation, especially where the adopted land uses do not conform with the land capability (the natural use of soil). The concerns of researchers about these matters are presented in the articles comprising this Special Issue book.

• Author : Douglas L. Karlen,Diane E. Stott,Maysoon M. Mikha
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2021-08-24
• ISBN : 9780891189800

Approaches to Soil Health Analysis A concise survey of soil health analysis and its various techniques and applications The maintenance of healthy soil resources provides the foundation for an array of global efforts and initiatives that affect humanity. Whether they are working to combat food shortages, conserve our ecosystems, or mitigate the impact of climate change, researchers and agriculturalists the world over must be able to correctly examine and understand the complex nature of this essential, fragile resource. These new

• Author : Douglas L. Karlen,Diane E. Stott,Maysoon M. Mikha
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2021-08-13
• ISBN : 9780891189909

Volume 1 briefly reviews selected “Approaches to Soil Health Analysis” including a brief history of the concept, challenges and opportunities, meta-data and assessment, applications to forestry and urban land reclamation, and future soil health monitoring and evaluation approaches. Volume 2 focuses on “Laboratory Methods for Soil Health Analysis” including an overview and suggested analytical approaches intended to provide meaningful, comparable data so that soil health can be used to guide restoration and protection of our global soil resources.

• Author : Tarik Mitran,Ram Swaroop Meena,Abhishek Chakraborty
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release Date : 2020-10-24
• ISBN : 9789811568640

The sustainable development of the agriculture sector is the only option to meet the demands of increased and economically viable production in a changing climate. This means there is a need to introduce the latest technologies to enhance production, and also help policymakers make decisions for the future. Geospatial technologies & tools, such as remote sensing, geographical information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS), and mobile & web applications, provide unique capabilities to analyze multi-scale, multi-temporal datasets, and support decision-making in sustainable

• Author : Rattan Lal
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release Date : 2017-01-11
• ISBN : 9781000031416

New and Improved Global Edition: Three-Volume Set A ready reference addressing a multitude of soil and soil management concerns, the highly anticipated and widely expanded third edition of Encyclopedia of Soil Science now spans three volumes and covers ground on a global scale. A definitive guide designed for both coursework and self-study, this latest version describes every branch of soil science and delves into trans-disciplinary issues that focus on inter-connectivity or the nexus approach. For Soil Scientists, Crop Scientists, Plant

• Author : Leidivan Almeida Frazão,Adriana Marcela Silva Olaya,Junio Cota
• Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
• Release Date : 2020-07-22
• ISBN : 9781839629921

This book discusses different strategies that can be adopted by agriculture and industry to enhance CO2 sequestration and reduce the impacts of global warming and climate change. Written by researchers from different fields, chapters cover such topics as the management of agricultural systems with the implementation of agronomic practices that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase soil carbon stocks, the technology of adsorption on activated carbon from low-cost raw material, and the effective methods of carbon capture and storage,

• Author : José Raúl Román Fernández
• Publisher : Universidad Almería
• Release Date : 2021-03-12
• ISBN : 9788413510552

En las zonas áridas, la acción combinada del cambio climático y el aumento de la presión humana están causando una degradación acelerada de los ecosistemas. En este contexto, es necesario investigar nuevas estrategias de restauración que nos permitan mejorar las acciones de restauración en estas zonas. Para ello, en esta tesis se exploró el uso de biocostras, comunidades de organismos que colonizan los primeros centímetros del suelo y que viven en estrecha

• Author : J. Alfred Zinck
• Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
• Release Date : 1995
• ISBN : 9251036624

• Author : Paulo Pereira,Artemi Cerdà,Xavier Úbeda,Jorge Mataix-Solera,Guillermo Rein
• Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
• Release Date : 2019-02-01
• ISBN : 9781486308156

Wildland fires are occurring more frequently and affecting more of Earth's surface than ever before. These fires affect the properties of soils and the processes by which they form, but the nature of these impacts has not been well understood. Given that healthy soil is necessary to sustain biodiversity, ecosystems and agriculture, the impact of fire on soil is a vital field of research. Fire Effects on Soil Properties brings together current research on the effects of fire on the

• Author : Sabine Grunwald
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release Date : 2016-04-19
• ISBN : 9781420028188

Environmental Soil-Landscape Modeling: Geographic Information Technologies and Pedometrics presents the latest methodological developments in soil-landscape modeling. It analyzes many recently developed measurement tools, and explains computer-related and pedometric techniques that are invaluable in the modeling process. This volume provi

• Author : Shabbir A. Shahid,Faisal K. Taha,Mahmoud A. Abdelfattah
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release Date : 2013-02-15
• ISBN : 9789400753327

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

• Author : Willy H. Verheye
• Publisher : EOLSS Publications
• Release Date : 2009-09-19
• ISBN : 9781848262409

This Encyclopedia of Land Use, Land Cover and Soil Sciences is a component of the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. Land is one of our most precious assets. It represents space, provides food and shelter, stores and filters water, and it is a base for urban and industrial development, road construction, leisure and many other social activities. Land is, however not unlimited in extent, and even when it is

• Author : John M. Kimble
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1993
• ISBN : MINN:31951D00902081S