Beschreibung:
This book informs about knowledge gain in soil and land degradation to reduce or prevent it for meeting the mission of the Sustainable Developments Goals of the United Nations. Essence, extent, monitoring methods and implications for ecosystem functioning of main soil degradation types are characterized in overview chapters and case studies.
Understanding Soils: their Functions, Use and Degradation.- Types of Physical Soil Degradation and Implications for their Prevention and Monitoring.- Understanding and Monitoring Chemical and Biological Soil Degradation.- Classification and causes of soil degradation by irrigation in Russian steppe agrolandscapes.- Desertification in Western Siberia: identification, assessment and driving forces in temporal scale.