Overview
- Salinity is a major hazard for agriculture worldwide. This book provides some new and environment friendly alternatives
- A good resource for teaching and research on biodiversity, conservation and utilization of halophytes
- Those who are interested in commercial utilization of halophytes would find this book very useful
Part of the book series: Tasks for Vegetation Science (TAVS, volume 47)
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Sustainable development is the key for the survival in 21st century. The natural resources are finite and cannot be used with impunity because we are the custodian of these resources and have responsibility to pass these to the next generation. This monumental task requires several major commitments and most important of them is to arrest population explosion which has already reached seven billion. Natural resources like air to breath, food to eat, and water to drink, and fossil fuel to maintain this life style are being overexploited. Unrestrained consuming culture will accelerate undesired situation. This situation will have more dire consequences in resource limited ecosystems like dry lands. Given the severe scarcity of water, ever increasing population and soil salinization out of the box solutions for the provision of food and clean energy is required to spare meager fresh water resources for conventional agriculture. This volume contains a number of articles dealing with halophyte ecology, bio-geography, ecophysiology, hyper-saline soils, biofuels, biosaline agriculture, biosaline landscaping, climate change mitigation, and biodiversity. It also contains the communication of innovative ideas, such as the research into floating mangroves, seagrass terraces, as well as a World Halophyte Garden containing all known salt-tolerant plant species. It is hoped that the information provided will not only advance vegetation science, but that it will truly generate more interdisciplinarity, networking, awareness, and inspire farmers, and agricultural and landscaping stakeholders to seriously engage in halophyte cash crop production in coastal hyper-saline areas.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sabkha Ecosystems
Book Subtitle: Volume IV: Cash Crop Halophyte and Biodiversity Conservation
Editors: M. Ajmal Khan, Benno Böer, Münir Öztürk, Thabit Zahran Abdessalaam, Miguel Clüsener-Godt, Bilquees Gul
Series Title: Tasks for Vegetation Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7411-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7410-0Published: 26 May 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0640-5Published: 02 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7411-7Published: 12 May 2014
Series ISSN: 0167-9406
Series E-ISSN: 1875-130X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 339
Number of Illustrations: 121 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environment, general, Life Sciences, general, Energy, general, Education, general, Sustainable Development