Principles of Sustainable Soil Management in Agroecosystems

Herausgeber: Lal, Rattan; Stewart, B A

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes the laws of sustainable soil management to enhance ecosystem services while restoring degraded soils and promoting sustainable use. With chapters contributed by world-class soil scientists, ecologists, and social scientists, the book outlines critical changes in management of agricultural soils necessary to address global issues of food security, climate change, water security, and energy needs. Topics covered include organic farming, soil fertility, crop-symbiotic soil microbiota, human-driven soil degradation, soil degradation and restoration, carbon sink capacity of soils, and soil renewal and sustainability.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Longman Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 159mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 950g
• ISBN-13: 9781466513464
• ISBN-10: 1466513462
• Artikelnr.: 37519936

Autorenporträt

Rattan Lal is a distinguished university professor of soil physics in the School of Environment and Natural Resources and the director of the Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences/Ohio Agriculture Research and Development Center, at the Ohio State University. Previously, he was a soil physicist for 18 years at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria. Professor Lal conducted long-term experiments on topics including land use, watershed management, soil properties, soil tillage and crop-residue management, and cropping systems. He has continued research on erosion-induced changes in soil quality and developed a new project on soils and climate change. He has demonstrated that accelerated soil erosion is a major factor affecting emission of carbon from the soil to the atmosphere. B.A. Stewart is a distinguished professor of soil science at the West Texas A&M University, Canyon, Texas. He is also the director of the Dryland Agriculture Institute and a former director of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Conservation and Production Laboratory at Bushland, Texas; a past president of the Soil Science Society of America; and a member of the 1990-1993 Committee on Long- Range Soil and Water Policy, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences. He is a fellow of the Soil Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, and Soil and Water Conservation Society and a recipient of the USDA Superior Service Award and the Hugh Hammond Bennett Award of the Soil and Water Conservation Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Principles of Soil Management. Marginality Principle. Principles of Soil
Management in Neotropical Savannas: The Brazilian Cerrado. Facts and Myths
of Feeding the World with Organic Farming Methods. Building upon
Traditional Knowledge to Enhance Resilience of Soils in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Soil Fertility as a Contingent Rather than Inherent Characteristic:
Considering the Contributions of Crop-Symbiotic Soil Microbiota. Human
Dimensions That Drive Soil Degradation. Managing Soil Organic Carbon
Concentration by Cropping Systems and Fertilizers in the North China Plain.
Global Extent of Land Degradation and Its Human Dimension. Cost-Benefit
Analysis of Soil Degradation and Restoration. Spiritual Aspects of
Sustainable Soil Management. Theological and Religious Approaches to Soil
Stewardship. Traditional Knowledge for Sustainable Management of Soils.
Sustainable Soil Management Is More Than What and How Crops are Grown.
Mining of Nutrients in African Soils Due to Agricultural Intensification.
Carbon Sink Capacity and Agronomic Productivity of Soils of Semiarid
Regions of India. Soil Renewal and Sustainability. Organic Carbon
Sequestration Potential and the Co-Benefits in China's Cropland. Soil
Management for Sustaining Ecosystem Services.