Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Novel Measurement and Assessment Tools for Monitoring and Management of Land and Water Resources in Agricultural Landscapes of Central Asia

  • Book
  • © 2014

Overview

Editors:
  1. Lothar Mueller

    1. Institute of Landscape Hydrology, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscap, Müncheberg, Germany

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Abdulla Saparov

    1. Kazakh Research Institute of Soil Scienc, Almaty, Kazakhstan

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  3. Gunnar Lischeid

    1. Institute of Landscape Hydrology, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscap, Müncheberg, Germany

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Concentrates on Central Asia, a global resource hotspot with a critical state of ecosystems, high conflict potential, and an urgent need to be addressed
  • Delivers an up-to-date complex analysis of the degradation status of Central Asian land and water
  • Proposes new solutions for initiating sustainable development and focus on methodologies having a high application potential for Central Asia
  • Accessible to a broad readership: scientists, planners, students, lecturers, decision makers, advanced farmers
  • Includes summaries and figure captions based on Russian data previously unavailable in English
  • Constitutes the first detailed overview of this important environmental theatre
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE)

Part of the book sub series: Environmental Science (ENVSCIENCE)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (44 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Environmental and Societal Framework for Monitoring and Management of Land and Water Resources

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Land and Water Resources of Central Asia, Their Utilisation and Ecological Status

      • Lothar Mueller, Mekhlis Suleimenov, Akmal Karimov, Manzoor Qadir, Abdulla Saparov, Nurlan Balgabayev et al.
      Pages 3-59

    3. Soil Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan: Current Status, Problems and Solutions

      • Abdulla Saparov
      Pages 61-73

    4. Long-Term Monitoring and Water Resource Management in the Republic of Kazakhstan

      • Tursun Ibrayev, Batyrbek Badjanov, Marina Li
      Pages 75-89

    5. Trends in the Agriculture of Central Asia and Implications for Rangelands and Croplands

      • Mekhlis Suleimenov
      Pages 91-105

    6. Landscape Hydrology of Rural Areas: Challenges and Tools

      • Gunnar Lischeid
      Pages 107-113

    7. Productivity Potentials of the Global Land Resource for Cropping and Grazing

      • Lothar Mueller, Uwe Schindler, Bruce C. Ball, Elena Smolentseva, Victor G. Sychev, T. Graham Shepherd et al.
      Pages 115-142

  3. Novel Methodologies for Measurement of Processes and Assessment of Resources

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
      Download chapter PDF

    2. A Novel Method for Quantifying Soil Hydraulic Properties

      • Uwe Schindler
      Pages 145-158

    3. Advanced Technologies in Lysimetry

      • Ralph Meissner, Holger Rupp, Manfred Seyfarth
      Pages 159-173

    4. Third-Generation Lysimeters: Scientific Engineered Monitoring Systems

      • Christian Hertel, Georg von Unold
      Pages 175-184

    5. A Field Method for Quantifying Deep Seepage and Solute Leaching

      • Uwe Schindler
      Pages 185-198

    6. Simple Field Methods for Measurement and Evaluation of Grassland Quality

      • Lothar Mueller, Axel Behrendt, T. Graham Shepherd, Uwe Schindler, Bruce C. Ball, Sergey Khudyaev et al.
      Pages 199-222

    7. Impact Assessment for Multifunctional Land Use

      • Katharina Helming
      Pages 223-234

    8. The Muencheberg Soil Quality Rating for Assessing the Quality of Global Farmland

      • Lothar Mueller, Uwe Schindler, T. Graham Shepherd, Bruce C. Ball, Elena Smolentseva, Konstantin Pachikin et al.
      Pages 235-248

    9. Use of Pedotransfer Functions for Land Evaluation: Mapping Groundwater Recharge Rates Under Semi-Arid Conditions

      • Volker Hennings
      Pages 249-262

    10. Nutrient Balances in Agriculture: A Basis for the Efficiency Survey of Agricultural Groundwater Conservation Measures

      • Frank Eulenstein, Marion Tauschke, Marcos Lana, Askhad K. Sheudshen, Ralf Dannowski, Roland Schindler et al.
      Pages 263-273

    11. Methods of In Situ Groundwater Quality Monitoring: Basis for the Efficiency Survey of Agricultural Groundwater Conservation Measures

      • Ralf Dannowski, Roland Schindler, Nils Cremer, Frank Eulenstein
      Pages 275-288

    12. Methods in the Exploratory Risk Assessment of Trace Elements in the Soil-Groundwater Pathway

      • Levke Godbersen, Jens Utermann, Wilhelmus H. M. Duijnisveld
      Pages 289-314
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

The book aims to initiate a sustainable use of land and water resources in Central Asia by the transfer of scientific methods. It deals with the most advanced methods worldwide for  better monitoring and management of water and land resources. We offer an array of methods of measuring, assessing, forecasting, utilizing and controling processes in agricultural landscapes. These are laboratory and field measurement methods, methods of resource evaluation, functional mapping and risk assessment, and remote sensing methods for monitoring and modeling large areas. The book contains methods and results of data analysis and ecosystem modeling, of bioremediation of soil and water, field monitoring of soils, and methods and technologies for optimizing land use systems as well. The chapter authors are inventors and advocators of novel transferrable methods. The book starts with an analysis of the current state of water and land resources. Finally concrete proposals for the applicability of novel methods are given.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Landscape Hydrology, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscap, Müncheberg, Germany

    Lothar Mueller, Gunnar Lischeid

  • Kazakh Research Institute of Soil Scienc, Almaty, Kazakhstan

    Abdulla Saparov

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Novel Measurement and Assessment Tools for Monitoring and Management of Land and Water Resources in Agricultural Landscapes of Central Asia

  • Editors: Lothar Mueller, Abdulla Saparov, Gunnar Lischeid

  • Series Title: Environmental Science and Engineering

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01017-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-01016-8Published: 21 October 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37724-7Published: 27 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-01017-5Published: 04 October 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1863-5520

  • Series E-ISSN: 1863-5539

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 716

  • Number of Illustrations: 54 b/w illustrations, 255 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Environmental Science and Engineering

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation