Editors:
- Presents a complete and updated information about the soils of Italy
- The cutting edge state of the art about the soil information of Italy
- Discusses issues on Italian soil resources: functions and threats
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: World Soils Book Series (WSBS)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The Soils of Italy is the first comprehensive book on Italian pedology in seventy years. Taking advantage of the authors’ large experience and of the most up-to-date information and technology, this book treats the main soil types of Italy, their diffusion, their functions, ecological use, and the threats to which they are subjected during centuries of intensive management. It also deals with future scenarios of the relationships between soil science and other disciplines, such as urban development, medicine, economics, sociology, and archaeology. The description of the soils is accompanied by a complete set of data, pictures and maps, including benchmark profiles. Factors of soil formation are also treated, making use of new, unpublished data and elaborations. The book also includes a history of pedological research in Italy, spanning over a century.
Editors and Affiliations
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l’agrobiologia e la pedologia, Senior Researcher, CRA-ABP Centro di ricerca per, Florence, Italy
Edoardo A.C. Costantini
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Palermo, Italy
Carmelo Dazzi
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Soils of Italy
Editors: Edoardo A.C. Costantini, Carmelo Dazzi
Series Title: World Soils Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5642-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5641-0Published: 20 April 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0536-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5642-7Published: 29 March 2013
Series ISSN: 2211-1255
Series E-ISSN: 2211-1263
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 354
Number of Illustrations: 61 b/w illustrations, 187 illustrations in colour
Topics: Soil Science & Conservation