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Soil Security for Ecosystem Management
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Mediterranean Soil Ecosystems 1
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Artikel-Nr:
9783319006987
Veröffentl:
2013
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
11.09.2013
Seiten:
180
Autor:
Sabit Er¿ahin
Gewicht:
283 g
Format:
235x155x11 mm
Serie:
8, Mediterranean Studies
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
Offers the reader an integrated and holistic view on sustainable ecosystem management, focusing on soil security
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.