Overview
- Leads the reader from the basics to a comprehensive understanding of soil degradation, conservation and remediation
- Study questions at the end of each chapter reinforce concepts
- Written in an easy-to-follow, logical style
- Special focus on causes, processes and impacts of soil degradation
- Emphasizes the measures to effect soil conservation and remediation
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Table of contents(6 chapters)
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Reviews
“The book … ‘give lucid accounts of the principal processes of soil degradation, its effects on soil quality, plant production and human health, and methods of improvement of degraded soils’. … the book is interesting to the graduate and undergraduate students in Soil Science, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences as it provides complete aspect of soil degradation supplemented with many color plates of the real issues and a lot of self study questions at the end of each unit.” (P. C. Abhilash, Journal of Cleaner Production, April, 2015)
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Soil Science, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh
Khan Towhid Osman
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Soil Degradation, Conservation and Remediation
Authors: Khan Towhid Osman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7590-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7589-3Published: 15 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0280-3Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7590-9Published: 01 October 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 237
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Soil Science & Conservation, Agriculture, Earth Sciences, general, Forestry