With the growing world population and the need for more food, soil conservation has a vital role to play. This book is a standard work on the subject and has been revised and updated to incorporate all the latest information. It provides information on recent advances such as: the greater emphasis on sound land and farming methods; the importance of involving the farmer at all stages; and the need for low-cost, low-labour methods. The author shows how research, theory and practice can be applied in the developing countries, and presents the engineering approach to soil conservation in a simple way.
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Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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photographs, line drawings
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ISBN-13
978-0-7134-7353-7 (9780713473537)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Man and soil erosion; the mechanics of erosion; the physics of rainfall; the erosivity of rainfall; the erodibility of soil; the principles of mechanical protection; the estimation of surface run-off; the design of mechanical protection works; land management; the universal soil loss equation; control of erosion by crop management; gully erosion; erosion control on non-arable land; wind erosion and its control; erosion research methods; problems of implementing soil practices and policies.
