Editors:
- Written by an esteemed group of leading soil scientists
- The first comprehensive work on the different types of soils in Egypt
- An important case study for different soils in arid and semiarid regions
Part of the book series: World Soils Book Series (WSBS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Generally speaking, the environmental challenges that Egypt now faces include improving and sustaining soil health, soil carbon sequestration, wastewater treatment, and avoiding the overuse of fertilizers and pesticides. Therefore, this book examines in detail the soils of Egypt from various perspectives including their genesis, history, classification, pollution and degradation, soil security, soil fertility and land uses.
Editors and Affiliations
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Soil and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt
Hassan El-Ramady, Tarek Alshaal
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Soils and Water Use Department, Biological and Agricultural Division, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt
Noura Bakr, Tamer Elbana
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Division of Agriculture Applications and Soil Science, National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), Cairo, Egypt
Elsayed Mohamed, Abdel-Aziz Belal
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Soils of Egypt
Editors: Hassan El-Ramady, Tarek Alshaal, Noura Bakr, Tamer Elbana, Elsayed Mohamed, Abdel-Aziz Belal
Series Title: World Soils Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95516-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95515-5Published: 05 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07049-6Published: 25 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95516-2Published: 20 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2211-1255
Series E-ISSN: 2211-1263
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 227
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 121 illustrations in colour
Topics: Soil Science & Conservation, Physical Geography, Earth System Sciences, World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions)