Soil Resources and the Environment

This volume considers soil from two interrelated angles: as a resource and as an environmental medium. It is characterized by a broad-spectrum contextual approach and is modelling oriented. Emphasis is laid on the dynamics of the soil processes in terms of SPAC (Soil-Plant-Air Continuum). The book provides an overview as to how knowledge of the soil processes can be put to practical use to manage soil nutrients, conserve soil moisture, reduce soil degradation, reclaim salt-affected silds, build civil constructions, and prevent soil contamination. Attention is drawn to the impact of climate change on the soil processes and productivity of ecosystems, and ways and means of mitigating its adverse consequences. Brief accounts are provided about soil geochemistry in relation to health and disease, and economic minerals in the soils. The book should be of use to university students and professionals in the areas of earth and environmental sciences, resource management, geography, ecology, pedology, agriculture and civil engineering.

ISBN 1578080673   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9781578080670 (What's this?)   Pages 268 Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc   Volumes 001 Imprint Science Publishers,U.S.   Weight (grammes) 685 Format Hardback   Published in Enfield Publication date 01 Jan 1999   Height (mm) 240 Non-book description xix, 248 p. :   Width (mm) 165 Library of Congress S591.A85 1   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY 631.4

		Preface
		Foreword by M. S. Swaminathan
		Prologue by Gunter Faure
		Acknowledgment
Ch. 1		Introduction		1
Ch. 2		Dynamics of soil processes and soil environments		29
Ch. 3		Soil nutrients and soil fertilization		56
Ch. 4		Soil degradation and its mitigation		80
Ch. 5		Climate Change Impacts on soils		105
Ch. 6		Soils in relation to irrigation		124
Ch. 7		Soils as engineering materials		147
Ch. 8		Contamination of soils		172
Ch. 9		Soil geochemistry in relation to health and disease		196
Ch. 10		Economic minerals in soils		208
		Exercises		225
App		Explanation of units, abbreviations, values of some physical constants, useful equations, and equivalencies		230
		References		234
		Subject Index		242
		Author Index		246

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