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Global degradation of soil and water resources : regional assessment and strategies
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ISBN: 9811679150 9811679169 Year: 2022 Publisher: Beijing, China ; Singapore : Science Press : Springer,

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Methods for Assessment of Soil Degradation
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ISBN: 084937443X 9780849374432 9781003068716 9780367448097 Year: 1998 Publisher: Boca Raton CRC Press

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Soil degradation has serious global impacts on agronomic, economic, and sociopolitical conditions, however, statistics regarding the degree of these impacts has been largely unreliable. This book aims to standardize the methodology for obtaining reliable and objective data on soil degradation. It will also identify and develop criteria for assessing the severity of soil degradation, providing a realistic scenario of the problem.


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Horizons in earth science research
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ISBN: 9781614705314 1614705313 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc.,

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Horizons in earth science research
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ISBN: 9781619429499 1619429497 9781607412212 1607412217 1612094880 9781612094885 9781611227635 9781612094885 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Nova Science Publishers,

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Advances in understanding soil degradation
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ISBN: 3030856828 303085681X Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature Switzerland AG,

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Guidelines for the control of soil degradation
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ISBN: 9251014043 9789251014042 Year: 1983 Publisher: Rome FAO

Shifting ground
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ISBN: 0262278391 0585437254 9780262278393 9780262526975 9780585437255 0262526972 0262122278 Year: 2000 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press

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In this book Peter Lindert evaluates environmental concerns about soil degradation in two very large countries -- China and Indonesia -- where anecdotal evidence has suggested serious problems. Lindert does what no scholar before him has done: using new archival data sets, he measures changes in soil productivity over long enough periods of time to reveal the influence of human activity. China and Indonesia are good test cases because of their geography and history. China has been at the center of global concerns about desertification and water erosion, which it may have accelerated with intense agriculture. Most of Indonesia's lands were created by volcanoes and erosion, and its rapid deforestation and shifting slash-burn agriculture have been singled out for international censure. Lindert's investigation suggests that human mismanagement is not on average worsening the soil quality in China and Indonesia. Human cultivation lowers soil nitrogen and organic matter, but has offsetting positive effects. Economic development and rising incomes may even lead to better soil. Beyond the importance of Lindert's immediate findings, this book opens a new area of study -- quantitative soil history -- and raises the standard for debating soil trends.

Gender, land and livelihoods in East Africa : through farmers' eyes
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ISBN: 0889369291 9786610849994 1280849991 155250283X 9780889369290 9781552502839 9781280849992 9780889369290 Year: 2001 Publisher: Ottawa : International Development Research Centre,

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