Soil Degradation, Restoration and Management in a Global Change Context, volume four in the Advances in Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection series, explores a wide breadth of emerging and state-of-the-art technologies and provides the best practices to manage soils affected by degradation. Soils are the base of life, thus a sustainable soil management is crucial in a context of global environmental change. Chapters in this new release include Soil degradation, processes, future treats and possible solutions, Agriculture and grazing environments, Abandoned and afforested lands, Environments affected by fire, Mining environments, Urban areas, and Lands affected by war.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. ii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Contributors - p. ix 6. Series Editor's Preface - p. xi 7. Preface - p. xiii 8. Chapter One. To whom the burden of soil degradation and management concerns - p. 1 9. Chapter Two. Agriculture and grazing environments - p. 23 10. Chapter Three. Soil degradation, restoration and management in abandoned and afforested lands - p. 71 11. Chapter Four. Environments affected by fire - p. 119 12. Chapter Five. Mining environments - p. 157 13. Chapter Six. Urban Areas - p. 207
Soil Degradation, Restoration and Management in a Global Change Context, volume four in the Advances in Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection series, explores a wide breadth of emerging and state-of-the-art technologies and provides the best practices to manage soils affected by degradation. Soils are the base of life, thus a sustainable soil management is crucial in a context of global environmental change. Chapters in this new release include Soil degradation, processes, future treats and possible solutions, Agriculture and grazing environments, Abandoned and afforested lands, Environments affected by fire, Mining environments, Urban areas, and Lands affected by war.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. ii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Contributors - p. ix 6. Series Editor's Preface - p. xi 7. Preface - p. xiii 8. Chapter One. To whom the burden of soil degradation and management concerns - p. 1 9. Chapter Two. Agriculture and grazing environments - p. 23 10. Chapter Three. Soil degradation, restoration and management in abandoned and afforested lands - p. 71 11. Chapter Four. Environments affected by fire - p. 119 12. Chapter Five. Mining environments - p. 157 13. Chapter Six. Urban Areas - p. 207
