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"This book presents a novel and systematic social theory of soil, and is representative of the rising interest in 'the material' in social sciences. Bringing together new modes of 'critical description' with speculative practices and methods of inquiry, it contributes to the exploration of current transformations in socioecologies, as well as in political and artistic practices, in order to address global ecological change. The chapters in this edited volume challenge scholars to attend more carefully to the ways in which they think about soil, both materially and theoretically. Contributors address a range of topics, including new ways of thinking about the politics of caring for soils ; the ecological and symbiotic relations between soils ; how the productive capacities and contested governance of soils are deployed as matters of political concern ; and indigenous ways of knowing and being with soil"--

Soils --- Soils --- Soil management --- Environmental aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Environmental aspects.

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This edited book’s theme is organized as a part of the GeoMEast 2019 International Congress and Exhibition that was held in Cairo, Egypt, on November 10–14 2019. The editors like to express their deep appreciation and gratitude to the authors for their valuable contributions to the GeoMEast 2019 proceedings and to all session chairs and reviewers for their sincere efforts to make this book a reality. The editors are very grateful to have this opportunity to participate in organizing this GeoMEast 2019 conference and hope that this book theme is a valuable reference to the civil/geotechnical engineering community worldwide.

Foundations --- Soil science. --- Soil conservation. --- Civil engineering. --- Soil Science & Conservation. --- Civil Engineering. --- Engineering --- Public works --- Conservation of soil --- Erosion control, Soil --- Soil erosion --- Soil erosion control --- Soils --- Agricultural conservation --- Soil management --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Agriculture --- Earth sciences --- Control --- Prevention --- Conservation

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This book is the first to systematically explore experimental erosion by integrating theory, erosion observations, and conservation applications. Although numerous books have been published on soil erosion both in English and in Chinese, none has concentrated on experimental studies on the Loess Plateau of China, in an attempt to establish a new sub-discipline: experimental erosion. One main objective of this book is to highlight monitoring and modeling methods for soil scientists who design and conduct experimental studies on soil loss. Another objective, and the most important one, is to make the results of these experiments more generally available. Accordingly, we have gathered and integrated a broad range of experimental results, both published and unpublished. In-depth discussions of the experimental data and new data processing methods are also included. The work covered here represents exemplary studies in the field of soil erosion and conservation, while the new methods and findings presented will provide practical guidance for controlling soil erosion. Hence the book offers a valuable resource for graduate students, soil erosion scientists and engineers, and soil and water conservationists.

Soil conservation --- Soil erosion --- Research. --- Research --- Methodology. --- Accelerated erosion --- Soils --- Erosion --- Soil conservation research --- Soil science. --- Soil conservation. --- Hydrology. --- Soil Science & Conservation. --- Hydrology/Water Resources. --- Aquatic sciences --- Earth sciences --- Hydrography --- Water --- Conservation of soil --- Erosion control, Soil --- Soil erosion control --- Agricultural conservation --- Soil management --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Agriculture --- Control --- Prevention --- Conservation

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This book explores the significance of soil microbial diversity to understand its utility in soil functions, ecosystem services, environmental sustainability, and achieving the sustainable development goals. With a focus on agriculture and environment, the book highlights the importance of the microbial world by providing state-of-the-art technologies for examining the structural and functional attributes of soil microbial diversity for applications in healthcare, industrial biotechnology, and bioremediation studies. In seven chapters, the book will act as a primer for students, environmental biotechnologists, microbial ecologists, plant scientists, and agricultural microbiologists. Chapter 1 introduces readers to the soil microbiome, and chapter 2 discusses the below ground microbial world. Chapter 3 addresses various methods for exploring microbial diversity, chapter 4 discusses the genomics methods, chapter 5 provides the metaproteomics and metatranscriptomics approaches and chapter 6 details the bioinformatics tools for soil microbial community analysis, and chapter 7 concludes the text with future perspectives on further soil microbial uses and applications. .

Soil microbial ecology. --- Soil conservation. --- Microbiology. --- Agriculture. --- Bioinformatics. --- Soil Science & Conservation. --- Applied Microbiology. --- Bio-informatics --- Biological informatics --- Biology --- Information science --- Computational biology --- Systems biology --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Microbial biology --- Microorganisms --- Conservation of soil --- Erosion control, Soil --- Soil erosion --- Soil erosion control --- Soils --- Agricultural conservation --- Soil management --- Data processing --- Control --- Prevention --- Conservation --- Soil science. --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Agriculture --- Earth sciences

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This textbook presents the concepts and processes involved in the soil-plant-atmosphere system as well as its applications in the water cycle in agriculture. Although reaching the frontier of our knowledge in several subjects, each chapter starts at the graduation level and proceeds to the post-doctoral level. Its more complicated subjects, as math and physics, are well explained, even to readers not well acquainted with these tools. Therefore, it helps students read, understand, and developing their thoughts on these subjects. Instructors also find it an easy book with the needed depth to be adopted in courses related to Soil Physics, Agricultural Management, Environmental Protection, Irrigation and Agrometeorology. It serves also as “lexicon” to engineers and lawyers involved in agricultural, environmental cases.

Agriculture. --- Botany. --- Soil conservation. --- Plant Sciences. --- Soil Science & Conservation. --- Conservation of soil --- Erosion control, Soil --- Soil erosion --- Soil erosion control --- Soils --- Agricultural conservation --- Soil management --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Biology --- Natural history --- Plants --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Control --- Prevention --- Conservation --- Soil physics. --- Agricultural physics --- Soil mechanics --- Plant science. --- Soil science. --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Agriculture --- Earth sciences --- Floristic botany