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1 online resource |
Series |
SpringerBriefs in environment, security, development and peace. Mediterranean studies ; v. 8 |
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SpringerBriefs in environment, security, development and peace. Mediterranean studies ; v. 8.
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Contents |
Managing Terrestrial Carbon in a Changing Climate / Rattan Lal -- Land Degradation and Security Linkages in the Mediterranean Region / Winfried E.H. Blum -- The Role of Soil Information in Land Degradation and Desertification Mapping: A Review / Claudio Zucca, Riccardo Biancalani, Selim Kapur, Erhan Akça, Pandi Zdruli [and others] -- Pedoenvironments of the Mediterranean Countries: Resources and Threats / Franco Previtali -- Carbon Cycle and Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems with Specific Reference to Mediterranean and Boreal Regions / A.R. Mermut -- Soil and Terroir / Edoardo Antonio Costantino Costantini, Pierluigi Bucelli -- Polygenic Red Calcic Soils in Coastal Middle Palaeolithic Environments, Israel: Taxonomy and Pedosedimentary Reconstructions / Alexander Tsatskin |
Summary |
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 tointerdisciplinary soil ecosystem management to combat and mitigate desertification. The contributing authors are renowned experts in their fieldswhich cover the subjects on traditional as well as innovative land use and management |
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Print version record |
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Soil conservation -- Mediterranean Region
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Desertification -- Control -- Mediterranean Region
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General.
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Sciences de la terre.
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Environnement.
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Desertification -- Control
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Soil conservation
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Mediterranean Region
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Kapur, S., editor
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Ersahin, Sabit, editor
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ISBN |
9783319006994 |
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3319006991 |
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