Overview
- This book has chapters from leading international experts in the field
- This research presents a comprehensive state of the art of strategies for sustainable soil management
- This book is recommended to graduates, profession/practitioner and researchers
Part of the book series: Sustainable Agriculture Reviews (SARV, volume 29)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prof. Rattan Lal, Ph.D., is a Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science and Director of the Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, The Ohio State University, and an Adjunct Professor of University of Iceland. He received B.S. from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana; M.S. from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. He served as Sr. Research Fellow with the University of Sydney, Australia (1968-69), Soil Physicist at IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria (1970-87), and Professor of Soil Science at OSU (1987-to date). He has authored/co-authored 922 refereed journal articles and 535 book chapters, has written 20 and edited/co-edited 72 books. He is included in the Thomson Reuters list of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds (2014,2015), and among the most cited scientists in agriculture globally (2014,2015,2016 and 2017). Dr. Lal is recipient of the Honoris Causa degree from five universities in Europe and Asia. He is laureate of 2018 GCHERA World Agriculture Prize,2018 Glinka World Soil Prize and 2019 Japan Prize. He is the former President of the World Association of Soil and Water Conservation (1987-1990), International Soil and Tillage Research Organization (1988-1991), Soil Science Society of America (2006-2008) and of the International Union of Soil Sciences( 2017-2018).Prof .Lal has mentored more than 350 graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, research scientists and visiting scholars from around the world.
Dr. Rosa Francaviglia is senior researcher at Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment, Rome, Italy. Main research topics include: Effect of climate change on agriculture, Carbon sink and agricultural soils, Cropping systems and simulation models, Conservation agriculture, Agro-environmental evaluations, Soil Quality Indicators, and EU CAP Good Agro-Environmental Conditions (GAEC). She has been visiting scientist at Biological Systems Engineering Department, Washington State University, Pullman, USA, Blackland Research and Extension Center, Temple, Texas, USA, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts, UK. She has authored more than 200 scientific, technical and educational publications.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 29
Book Subtitle: Sustainable Soil Management: Preventive and Ameliorative Strategies
Editors: Rattan Lal, Rosa Francaviglia
Series Title: Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26265-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26264-8Published: 24 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26267-9Published: 25 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26265-5Published: 10 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2210-4410
Series E-ISSN: 2210-4429
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 144
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agriculture, Soil Science & Conservation, Environmental Management, Pollution, general