Soil Erosion and Conservation (eBook)

R. P. C. Morgan (Autor)

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2009 | 3. Auflage
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4051-4467-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Soil Erosion and Conservation provides a comprehensive treatment of the processes of soil erosion, the methods that can be used for their control, and the issues involved in designing and implementing soil conservation programmes. Features of the third edition of this internationally recognised textbook include: New material on gully erosion, tillage practices, erosion risk assessment, use of erosion models, incentives for farmers and land users, and community approaches to erosion control Updated sections on the mechanics of wind erosion, soil erodibility, use of vegetation in erosion control, traditional soil conservation measures, socio-economic issues and the role of government Describes the methods used to assess the risk of erosion and predict rates of soil loss Outlines the social, economic, political and institutional constraints on implementing soil protection measures Covers erosion and its control for agriculture, grazing, forestry, mining land, road banks, pipeline corridors and recreation Provides worldwide coverage of the success and failure of erosion control using material from Europe, Africa, Australia, America and Asia An Instructor manual CD-ROM for this title is available. Please contact our Higher Education team at [e-mail] for more information.

Autor

Roy Morgan is Emeritus Professor in Soil Erosion Control in the National Soil Resources Institute (NSRI), Cranfield University, UK. He is a founder member and past President of the European Society for Soil Conservation and, before retirement, was the Deputy Director of NSRI. He has some 35 years' experience in lecturing, research and consultancy on soil erosion, with particular interests in erosion assessment, erosion modelling and the use of vegetation in soil protection. His work has taken him to many countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe and has involved the design of soil protection measures on farmland, road banks and pipeline corridors.

Inhalt

Foreword vii

Preface ix

1 Soil erosion: the global context 1

Box 1. Erosion, population and food supply 9

2 Processes and mechanics of erosion 11

Box 2. Initiation of soil particle movement 42

3 Factors influencing erosion 45

Box 3. Scale and erosion processes 65

4 Erosion hazard assessment 67

Box 4. Upscaling detailed field surveys to national surveys 93

5 Measurement of soil erosion 95

Box 5. Sediment budgets 113

6 Modelling soil erosion 116

Box 6. Uncertainty in model predictions 149

7 Strategies for erosion control 152

Box 7. Planning a soil conservation strategy 172

8 Crop and vegetation management 175

Box 8. Selecting vegetation for erosion control 197

9 Soil management 200

Box 9. Tillage erosion 210

10 Mechanical methods of erosion control 212

Box 10. Laying out terraces and waterways 241

11 Implementation 244

Box 11. Land Care 254

12 The way ahead 257

References 262

Acknowledgements 297

Index 299

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.2.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: APPROACHES • conservation • Control • earth sciences • Earth Science Special Topics • Erosion • Farmers • Geowissenschaften • gully erosion • Incentives • Issues • Mechanics • Methods • Models • New • processes • Programmes • sections • Soil erosion • Spezialthemen Geowissenschaften • Treatment • use • Users • Vegetation • Wind
• ISBN-10: 1-4051-4467-X / 140514467X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-4467-4 / 9781405144674