Novel Measurement and Assessment Tools for Monitoring and Management of Land and Water Resources in Agricultural Landscapes of Central Asia

✍ Scribed by Lothar Mueller, Mekhlis Suleimenov, Akmal Karimov, Manzoor Qadir, Abdulla Saparov (auth.), Lothar Mueller, Abdulla Saparov, Gunnar Lischeid (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 714
• Series: Environmental Science and Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book aims to initiate a sustainable use of land and water resources in Central Asia by the transfer of scientific methods. It deals with the most advanced methods worldwide for better monitoring and management of water and land resources. We offer an array of methods of measuring, assessing, forecasting, utilizing and controling processes in agricultural landscapes. These are laboratory and field measurement methods, methods of resource evaluation, functional mapping and risk assessment, and remote sensing methods for monitoring and modeling large areas. The book contains methods and results of data analysis and ecosystem modeling, of bioremediation of soil and water, field monitoring of soils, and methods and technologies for optimizing land use systems as well. The chapter authors are inventors and advocators of novel transferrable methods. The book starts with an analysis of the current state of water and land resources. Finally concrete proposals for the applicability of novel methods are given.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Land and Water Resources of Central Asia, Their Utilisation and Ecological Status....Pages 3-59
Soil Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan: Current Status, Problems and Solutions....Pages 61-73
Long-Term Monitoring and Water Resource Management in the Republic of Kazakhstan....Pages 75-89
Trends in the Agriculture of Central Asia and Implications for Rangelands and Croplands....Pages 91-105
Landscape Hydrology of Rural Areas: Challenges and Tools....Pages 107-113
Productivity Potentials of the Global Land Resource for Cropping and Grazing....Pages 115-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
A Novel Method for Quantifying Soil Hydraulic Properties....Pages 145-158
Advanced Technologies in Lysimetry....Pages 159-173
Third-Generation Lysimeters: Scientific Engineered Monitoring Systems....Pages 175-184
A Field Method for Quantifying Deep Seepage and Solute Leaching....Pages 185-198
Simple Field Methods for Measurement and Evaluation of Grassland Quality....Pages 199-222
Impact Assessment for Multifunctional Land Use....Pages 223-234
The Muencheberg Soil Quality Rating for Assessing the Quality of Global Farmland....Pages 235-248
Use of Pedotransfer Functions for Land Evaluation: Mapping Groundwater Recharge Rates Under Semi-Arid Conditions....Pages 249-262
Nutrient Balances in Agriculture: A Basis for the Efficiency Survey of Agricultural Groundwater Conservation Measures....Pages 263-273
Methods of In Situ Groundwater Quality Monitoring: Basis for the Efficiency Survey of Agricultural Groundwater Conservation Measures....Pages 275-288
Methods in the Exploratory Risk Assessment of Trace Elements in the Soil-Groundwater Pathway....Pages 289-314
Methods for Quantifying Wind Erosion in Steppe Regions....Pages 315-327
Generation of Up to Date Land Cover Maps for Central Asia....Pages 329-346
Estimating Black Carbon Emissions from Agricultural Burning....Pages 347-364
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Non-Linear Approaches to Assess Water and Soil Quality....Pages 365-378
Using Soil–Water–Plant Models to Improve the Efficiency of Irrigation....Pages 379-387
MONICA: A Simulation Model for Nitrogen and Carbon Dynamics in Agro-Ecosystems....Pages 389-405
Integrated Decision Support for Sustainable and Profitable Land Management in the Lowlands of Central Asia....Pages 407-422
Efficiency of Duckweed ( Lemnaceae ) for the Desalination and Treatment of Agricultural Drainage Water in Detention Reservoirs....Pages 423-440
Conservation Agriculture for Long-Term Soil Productivity....Pages 441-454
Modern Technologies for Soil Management and Conservation in Northern Kazakhstan....Pages 455-464
Enhancing the Productivity of High-Magnesium Soil and Water Resources in Central Asia....Pages 465-474
Advanced Technologies for Irrigated Cropping Systems....Pages 475-489
Multi-Species Grazing on Deer Farms....Pages 491-501
Front Matter....Pages 503-503
Assessing the Soil Quality and Crop Yield Potentials of Some Soils of Eurasia....Pages 505-517
Soils of Kazakhstan, Their Distribution and Mapping....Pages 519-533
Indicators of Land Degradation in Steppe Regions: Soil and Morphodynamics in the Northern Kulunda....Pages 535-548
Erosion Rates Depending on Slope and Exposition of Cropped Chestnut Soils....Pages 549-561
Methodology of Measuring Processes and Evaluation of Water Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan....Pages 563-575
Model-Based Impact Analysis of Climate and Land Use Changes on the Landscape Water Balance....Pages 577-590
Biotechnological Restoration Methods of Technogenically Disturbed Soils in Kazakhstan....Pages 591-609
Strategy of Sustainable Soil and Plant Resource Management in the Republic of Kazakhstan....Pages 611-619
The Effect of Applying the Microbiofertiliser “MERS” on the Soil Microbial Community and the Productivity of Winter Wheat Under the Conditions of Southeast Kazakhstan....Pages 621-630
Water Treatment Systems for Agricultural Water Supply....Pages 631-640
Front Matter....Pages 503-503
Concentration of Heavy Metals in Irrigated Soils in Southern Kazakhstan....Pages 641-652
Concept and Results of Soil Monitoring in North Kazakhstan....Pages 653-666
Diagnosis and Optimization of Phosphorus Nutrition Conditions of Grain Crops in Northern Kazakhstan....Pages 667-679
Front Matter....Pages 681-681
Executive Summary and Conclusions....Pages 683-714
Back Matter....Pages 715-716

✦ Subjects

Environmental Science and Engineering