Soil Security for Ecosystem Management: Mediterranean Soil Ecosystems 1

✍ Scribed by Rattan Lal (auth.), Selim Kapur, Sabit Erşahin (eds.)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 174
Series: SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace 8 Mediterranean Studies
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Managing Terrestrial Carbon in a Changing Climate....Pages 1-18
Land Degradation and Security Linkages in the Mediterranean Region....Pages 19-29
The Role of Soil Information in Land Degradation and Desertification Mapping: A Review....Pages 31-59
Pedoenvironments of the Mediterranean Countries: Resources and Threats....Pages 61-82
Carbon Cycle and Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems with Specific Reference to Mediterranean and Boreal Regions....Pages 83-96
Soil and Terroir....Pages 97-133
Polygenic Red Calcic Soils in Coastal Middle Palaeolithic Environments, Israel: Taxonomy and Pedosedimentary Reconstructions....Pages 135-154
Back Matter....Pages 155-167

✦ Subjects

Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice; Environmental Management; Soil Science & Conservation

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