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The red soils of China are typical in their chemical, physical and mineralogical characteristics of red soils in other tropical and sub-tropical areas of the world, particularly in South America, Africa and south-east Asia. For the most part, these soils are highly weathered and inherently infertile. They are acidic, nutrient deficient, poor in organic matter and have a low water-holding and supplying capacity. They cannot sustain arable cropping systems without the most careful management and are highly susceptible to soil erosion, particularly on sloping land. It is the purpose of this book to present recent research showing how the problems associated with using the red soils in China for sustainable agricultural production can be overcome, using a variety of traditional and novel approaches. In principle, these approaches should be useful in other tropical and sub-tropical countries faced with the problem of making the best use of their fragile red soil resources. The term "in principle" is used deliberately because, of course, the different red soil countries invariably operate within dissimilar socio-economic frameworks. At the present time, China may be considered to be in the process of an "industrial revolution", rather like that that took place in Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Management, Utilization and Sustainability of Red Soils in China: Overview and Synopsis
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Socio-Economic Aspects of Red Soil Utilization and the Application of New Technologies: Synopsis and Overview
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Front Matter
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Conclusions
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Red Soils of China
Book Subtitle: Their Nature, Management and Utilization
Editors: M. J. Wilson, Zhenli He, Xiaoe Yang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2138-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2137-4Published: 26 May 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6597-1Published: 01 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2138-1Published: 31 May 2004
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 400
Number of Illustrations: 58 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Soil Science & Conservation, Environmental Management