Albert O Aweto (Nigeria University of Ibadan)

Gebundenes Buch

Shifting Cultivation and Secondary Succession in the Tropics

Beschreibung

This book documents and systematizes findings in shifting cultivation over the last six decades and also characterizes secondary succession and related changes that fallow vegetation undergoes to the process of soil fertility restoration under bush fallow.

Autor

Albert Orodena Aweto obtained his Ph.D. degree in geography from the University of Ibadan, where he is a professor of soil geography and biogeography. His research has focused mainly on soil dynamics and vegetation regeneration in bush fallow, traditional agroforestry, and soil dynamics in monocultural plantations of teak, gmelina, eucalypts and rubber. He has published several papers in over two dozen different scientific journals. He was a visiting lecturer at the University of Salford, UK ( 1984/1985) and professor in the Department of Environmental Science, University of Botswana, Gaborone (2000-2002). He was Head of the Department of Geography at the University of Ibadan (2005-2008), a member of the International Geographical Union Study Group on Biogeography (2000-2004) and has been listed as a researcher and geography educator in Who's Who in Nigeria, published by the Nigerian International Biographical Centre, and in Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CABI Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 173mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 646g
• ISBN-13: 9781780640433
• ISBN-10: 1780640439
• Artikelnr.: 35441829