Soil Degradation, Restoration and Management in a Global Change Context

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-12-816415-0
Verlag: ACADEMIC PR INC

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 536 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 410 g

Reihe: Advances in Chemical Pollution

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.

Zielgruppe

<p>Students and professionals from both soil science and land management fields, professionals in Geography, Ecology, Environmental Science, Spatial planning, Agriculture, Agronomy, Biology and Engineering</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pereira, Paulo

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Bodenkunde, Sedimentologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. To whom the burden of soil degradation and management concerns Amber M. Bateman and Miriam Muñoz-Rojas 2. Agriculture and grazing environments Igor Bogunovic, Manuel Pulido Fernandez, Ivica Kisic, and Maria Burguet Marimon 3. Soil degradation, restoration and management in abandoned and afforested lands Teodoro Lasanta, José Arnaez, and Estela Nadal-Romero 4. Environments affected by fire Paulo Pereira, Juan F. Martínez-Murillo, and Marcos Francos 5. Mining environments María Gabarrón, Raúl Zornoza, Jose A. Acosta, Ángel Faz, and Silvia Martínez-Martínez 6. Urban areas Carla S.S. Ferreira, Zahra Kalantari, Luca Salvati, Loredana Canfora, Ilaria Zambon, and Rory P.D. Walsh

Über Autor(innen)

Pereira, Paulo
Paulo Pereira is a full professor at the Environmental Management Center, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania. He holds a PhD in Physical Geography from the University of Barcelona and has previous experience working on spatial modelling of environmental variables and applying these results to sustainable landscape planning. Prof. Pereira was awarded the outstanding young scientist award from the Soil System Sciences Division (European Geoscience Union) and is one of the most influential scientists in the world in the field of environmental sciences, according to Elsevier/Stanford University. Prof. Pereira is an editor and guest editor of various journals in the field of environment and soil science.