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Author : D. P. King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Land use
ISBN : 0730598810
Author : D. P. King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Hampton (N.S.W.)
ISBN : 0731032330
Author : Junliang Tian,Chi-Hua Huang
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0849323495
"I've seen the Sudan, traveled in South and Central America and been all over Europe, but I've never seen what I've been able to see on this tour [of the Loess Plateau, China]." -Ed Skidmore, soil scientist, Wind Erosion Research Unit of the Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Manhattan, Kansas Overpopulation is at the core of most environmental problems. The impacts of continued growth-with world population reaching 6 billion in October 1999-are felt in most parts of the world. China, the most populous nation, illustrates many of the pivotal problems-and solutions. Although China faces the same effects of overpopulation as the rest of the world, it still feeds over a billion people on a tillable area that allows about one tenth of a hectare per person. The country's efforts to tie together soil and water conservation, dryland farming, and economic development have been largely successful. Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming explores these trials and the lessons learned from them. Copublished with the Soil and Water Conservation Society, this exhaustive text consists of the rewritten proceedings from the Society's conference held in Yangling, Shaanxi, China. It covers dryland farming systems and soil water management, environmental quality and sustainability, and erosion control techniques as they relate primarily to Mainland China. With additional global examples and a balance between conceptual and applied studies, it covers some of the most progressive work in soil erosion control and dryland farming from around the world. Soil exposure while land lies fallow is one of the greatest risks in dryland farming. New procedures and kinds of tillage help control erosion and improve water intake. Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming presents these techniques and technologies to give you a forward-looking perspective into the field, as well as the larger problem of tailoring food production to sustain the population.
Author : Elke Haege,Simon Leake
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780643109667
Soils for Landscape Development provides a clear, practical and systematic template for specifying landscape soils based on scientific criteria. The soil specifications provide essential information and a universally applicable method for landscape architects and designers, specification writers, landscape contractors and soil supply companies to ensure quality and fit-for-purpose soils. A strong emphasis is placed on reducing environmental impacts by reuse of on-site soil, promoting appropriate minimal soil intervention, and using recycled products.
Author : National Library of Australia
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 1976 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Australia
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Anonim
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 1818 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Neil McKenzie,David Jacquier,Ray Isbell,Katharine Brown
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780643069589
A unique compendium of the most important and widespread soils of Australia and their associated landscapes.
Author : Yeqiao Wang
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780429819049
Authored by world-class scientists and scholars, The Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition, is an excellent reference for understanding the consequences of changing natural resources to the degradation of ecological integrity and the sustainability of life. Based on the content of the bestselling and CHOICE-awarded Encyclopedia of Natural Resources, this new edition demonstrates the major challenges that the society is facing for the sustainability of all well-being on the planet Earth. The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in studying natural resources are presented in six stand-alone volumes, arranged along the main systems of land, water, and air. It reviews state-of-the-art knowledge, highlights advances made in different areas, and provides guidance for the appropriate use of remote sensing and geospatial data with field-based measurements in the study of natural resources. Volume 2, Landscape and Land Capacity, covers soils and landscape issues, their diversity and importance, and how soils are related to the landscapes in which they form. It includes discussions on land conservation, land-use and land-cover changes, and urban environments and unravels the complex bond between humans and soils. New in this edition are discussions on habitat conservation and planning, landscape epidemiology and vector-borne disease, and landscape patterns and changes. This volume demonstrates the key processes, methods, and models used through several practical case studies from around the world. Written in an easy-to-reference manner, The Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition, as individual volumes or as a complete set, is an essential reading for anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the science and management of natural resources. Public and private libraries, educational and research institutions, scientists, scholars, and resource managers will benefit enormously from this set. Individual volumes and chapters can also be used in a wide variety of both graduate and undergraduate courses in environmental science and natural science at different levels and disciplines, such as biology, geography, earth system science, and ecology.
Author : G.P. Obi Reddy,N.G. Patil,Arun Chaturvedi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781771885188
The depletion of land resources is one of the greatest challenges for mankind in this millennium. Shrinking land resources, weather aberrations, deterioration of land quality, and the globalization and liberalization of market economies have become intertwined to influence the sustainable management of land resources and land use plans. This important volume, Sustainable Management of Land Resources: An Indian Perspective, addresses these challenges. This comprehensive volume, covering important research, much of it gathered with the use of new technology, tools, and applications, is organized into four sections: (add bullets) land resource inventory and characterization geospatial technologies in land resource mapping and management soil nutrient status and management land use planning and livelihood security The volume looks at how scientists translate their knowledge and experience in sustainable land resources and management into implementable policy decisions, with a particular focus on India. Since India is an agrarian economy, the land resources assume a very critical role affecting the livelihood of a vast majority of populace in the country. The information gathered—and the methods by which it is gathered—is applicable globally. This comprehensive publication will be highly useful for the researchers, academicians, extension workers, policymakers, planners, officials of land resources survey, planning and management institutions/agencies/departments, and others.
Author : Marwan A. Hassan,Olav Slaymaker,Simon M. Berkowicz
Publisher : IAHS Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Geomorphology
ISBN : 1901502163
Author : Ann Rua Mackenzie Young,R. W. Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015055198660
Soils in the Australian Landscape provides a comprehensive and clearly explained discussion of Australian soils, with a focus on landform development of the continent, and on the land uses across it. Soils are the skin of landforms, and the book begins by reviewing the broad patterns and evolution of landforms in Australia. The distinctive landform and climatic history of Australia - together with the great age of most of the land surface - explains much of the variety of soils in Australia. This variety is described using the Australian Soil Classification, now adopted by all Australian governmental authorities. Special attention is given to regolith, paleosols, and indurated soils such as laterites and other duricrusts. While its focus is primarily on Australia, Soils in the Australian Landscape also explains processes and classification systems that are applicable world-wide, adopting a broad, interdisciplinary approach towards its subject. Founded on clear and detailed explanations of technical material, this book will be a valuable resource for all undergraduate students of geography, geoscience, environmental engineering, and agricultural, soil, and environmental sciences, as well as practising conservationists, land managers, and environmental engineers.
Author : Pam Hazelton,Brian Murphy
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780643099159
Interpreting Soil Test Results is a practical reference for those who need to interpret results from laboratory analysis of soil. It has a comprehensive listing of the soil properties relevant to most environmental and natural land resource issues and investigations. The precursor to this book, What Do All the Numbers Mean?, known as The Numbers Book, was widely used and accepted for interpreting soil test results. This new edition has been completely updated and many sections have been expanded, particularly those on acid sulfate soils and soil salinity. It is a handy and straightforward guide to interpretation of the numbers associated with a wide range of soil tests.
Author : NJ McKenzie,MJ Grundy,R Webster,AJ Ringrose-Voase
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780643099050
Guidelines for Surveying Soil and Land Resources promotes the development and implementation of consistent methods and standards for conducting soil and land resource surveys in Australia. These surveys are primarily field operations that aim to identify, describe, map and evaluate the various kinds of soil or land resources in specific areas. The advent of geographic information systems, global positioning systems, airborne gamma radiometric remote sensing, digital terrain analysis, simulation modelling, efficient statistical analysis and internet-based delivery of information has dramatically changed the scene in the past two decades. As successor to the Australian Soil and Land Survey Handbook: Guidelines for Conducting Surveys, this authoritative guide incorporates these new methods and techniques for supporting natural resource management. Soil and land resource surveyors, engineering and environmental consultants, commissioners of surveys and funding agencies will benefit from the practical information provided on how best to use the new technologies that have been developed, as will professionals in the spatial sciences such as geomorphology, ecology and hydrology.
Author : C. L. Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Gosford (N.S.W.)
ISBN : 0730591662
Author : GR Walker,L Zhang
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780643106116
Each booklet in The Basics of Recharge and Discharge series covers a specific technique for detecting, measuring or modelling groundwater recharge and discharge. Part 10 provides an overview of the use of plot scale models in estimating deep drainage. This booklet explains how such models can add understanding to deep drainage studies. It describes the different broad types of plot-scale models that are available and how they can be most appropriately used. Throughout the booklet, clear examples demonstrate the potential applications for a range of simulation models. They contrast the features and capabilities of the models and illustrate what can be achieved through modelling. The chapter finishes by describing how to test models and where to find more information on the models most commonly used in Australia.