Overview
- Serves as a comprehensive book consolidating all relevant information on soils of Nepal
- Includes real field-based color photos of soil profile
- useful for all professionals (researcher, academia, and developmental organization) working on soils
Part of the book series: World Soils Book Series (WSBS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
'The Soils of Nepal’ is a part of ‘World Soils Book Series’ which constitutes twelve chapters—covering broad aspects such as soil research history, climate, geology, soil classification and mapping, and soil fertility. Furthermore, information about soil properties and relation between soil constituents of the dominant soil types of Nepal and their scope of use in the context of land use are described. This book also tries to simplify the intricate relationship among soil, culture, and people. Each chapter contains a comprehensive, richly illustrated, and up-to-date overview of the soils of Nepal. We believe it fulfils a quest for a global audience including students, educators, extension workers, and soil scientists, who are interested to know the young soils of Nepal.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dinesh Panday is a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, United States since 2020. He completed his undergraduate studies at Tribhuvan University (B. Sc. Ag., 2012) in Nepal and went on to graduate studies in Environmental Sciences at Lincoln University of Missouri (M.S., 2015) and Soil and Water Sciences at University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Ph.D., 2020) in the United States. Soil fertility, soil nitrogen, biogeochemistry, greenhouse gas emissions, and digital soil mapping are his field of expertise. He received Alltech Young Scientist Awards in 2010, 2011 and 2012. He also received 2018 Maize-Asia Youth Innovators Awards, organizedby CGIAR Research Program on Maize and Young Professionals for Agricultural Development (YPARD). He serves as Coordinator at Maize Youth Task Force and Communication officer at YPARD Asia and Pacific region. He also serves as an Editor in Journal of Nepal Agricultural Research Council, Nepal and Reviewer in many journals, including Nature Scientific Reports, Journal of Environmental Quality, Agronomy Journal, PLoS ONE and Remote Sensing. As a researcher, he is interested in deeper understanding of soil biogeochemical controls of greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate carbon footprint of agricultural systems. He is fond of music, travel, and nature.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Soils of Nepal
Editors: Roshan Babu Ojha, Dinesh Panday
Series Title: World Soils Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80999-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80998-0Published: 15 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81001-6Published: 15 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-80999-7Published: 14 October 2021
Series ISSN: 2211-1255
Series E-ISSN: 2211-1263
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 161
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
Topics: Soil Science & Conservation, Agriculture, Geology