Soil Security for Ecosystem Management
Mediterranean Soil Ecosystems 1
1st Edition
Published on 27. August 2013
XII, 167 pages
978-3-319-00699-4 (ISBN)
Description
The term "Soil Security" is used in the context of maintaining the quality and quantity of soil needed in order to ensure continuous supplies of food and fresh water for our society. Topics in this unique book on the management of soil sustainability in the Mediterranean region include: soil information, land degradation, land desertification, pedoenvironments, and the carbon cycle and sequestration. One main focus of the book is the description of new approaches that have been adapted with regards to interdisciplinary soil ecosystem management to combat and mitigate desertification. The contributing authors are renowned experts in their fields which cover the subjects on traditional as well as innovative land use and management.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XII, 167 p. 57 illus., 37 illus. in color.
File size
5,40 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-319-00699-4 (9783319006994)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-00699-4
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
09/2013
Springer
€53.49
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Content
Managing Terrestrial Carbon in a Changing Climate.- Land Degradation and Security Linkages in the Mediterranean Region.- Role of soil information in Land Degradation and Desertification mapping.- Pedoenvironments of the Mediterranean countries. Resources and threats.- Carbon Cycle and Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems with Specific Reference to Mediterranean and Boreal Regions.- Soil and Terroir.- Polygenic red calcic soils in coastal Middle Palaeolithic environments, Israel: taxonomy and pedosedimentary reconstructions.
