Overview
- Contains a comprehensive source of data on Croatian pedosphere
- Discusses soils in relation to climate change and as a source of glasshouse gasses and as an indicator of desertification
- Presents an overview on soil degradation and soil protection following DPSIR concept and stepwise approach: Inventory – Monitoring – Soil information system
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: World Soils Book Series (WSBS)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
The Soils of Croatia is a six-chapter book detailing all aspects of Croatian soils. The book presents, in a reader friendly way, the lively history of pedology in Croatia. It explains soils as natural resources for this country and offers a detailed view on the different agricultural regions referenced in Croatia. The Soils of Croatia also contains useful information regarding the different factors of soil genesis in the different regions as well as on soil taxonomy and it gives a very detailed classification of different Croatian Soils. Overall, this book contains everything that pedologists, students and anyone else interested in Croatian soils should know about.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Prof. Ferdo Bašić is Professor Emeritus and world experts on Soils. Prof Bašić has been working at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Zagreb (Croatia) since 1984 and is specialized in soil protection and monitoring, as well as water erosion and land management. He has also been involved in many other works, like the National Report on Food Security in 1996, has been president of the Croatian Society of Soil Science in 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1993 and Deputy dean for scientific affairs at the faculty of Agriculture of the University of Zagreb from 1993 until 1997.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Soils of Croatia
Authors: Ferdo Bašić
Series Title: World Soils Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5815-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5814-8Published: 20 April 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7821-3Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5815-5Published: 28 March 2013
Series ISSN: 2211-1255
Series E-ISSN: 2211-1263
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 179
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 164 illustrations in colour
Topics: Soil Science & Conservation