Books published between 1999 – 2007
All these books were reviewed by Hans van Baren of
ISRIC – World Soil Information
His e-mail is hans.vanbaren@wur.nl
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(last update 12th November
2007)
1999
Agricultural Disaster Management in
This
book, the third volume of a series on agricultural aspects of
Earlier books by H. Brammer were: The Geography of the
Soils of Bangladesh (1996) and Agricultural Development Possibilities in
Orders to:
The University Press,
Schwermetalle
in Böden Niedersachsens, Hintergrundwerte für Schwermetalle in Böden
Niedersachsens, Schwermetallbelastung in den Böden der Talauen des Harzes und
Harzvorlandes, Schwermetalle in einem städtischen Belastungsraum, von
Jürgen Schneider, herausgegeben in der Reihe: Arbeitshefte Boden des
Niedersächsischen Landesamts für Bodenforschung, Heft 1999/2, 25 S., 3 Abb., 4
Tab., 3 Karten, Hannover 1999.
Vorliegende Publikation befasst
sich mit der Bodenbelastung Niedersachsens durch Schwermetalle, gibt hierbei
Hintergrundwerte und beschreibt Analyseanforderungen sowie technische Daten bei
der Erhebung von Belastungsgrößen. Darüber hinaus wird die
Schwermetallbelastung in den Böden der Talauen des Harzes und des Harzvorlandes
sowie eines städtischen Belastungsraumes am Beispiel Nordenham aufgezeigt. Die
vorliegende Publikation ist allen,, die sich mit Bodenbelastungen von urbanen,
peri-urbanen und Naturräumen beschäftigen, zur Lektüre sehr empfohlen.
Zu beziehen bei: E. Schweizerbart'sche
Verlagsbuchhandlung, (Nägele u. Obermiller) Johannesstr.
Preis: 6,39 Euro
Landschaften und Böden im Regierungsbezirk Karlsruhe, herausgegeben
1999 vom Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe. ISBN 3510651928
Die
vorliegende Publikation stellt eine umfassende Beschreibung von Böden und
Bodenlandschaften des oberrheinischen Tieflands, des Schwarzwalds, der
Gäulandschaften, des Odenwalds, sowie der Keupenhügel- und Berglandregion des
Regierungsbezirks dar, mit zahlreichen Bodenabbildungen und Bodenprofilen und
zusätzlichen Erläuterungen zur Bodenfunktion, zur Geologie und zu
Bodenkennwerten. Die Publikation stellt somit einen wichtigen Beitrag zum
Verständnis der Ökologie eines wesentlichen Teiles von Baden-Württemberg dar
und ist in seinem Aufbau und in seinen Aussagen beispielhaft. Sie wendet sich
an die verschiedensten, an Natur und Ökologie interessierten Leser aller
Altersgruppen, sowie Lehrpersonen und solche, die sich fachlich mit der
Ökologie Südwestdeutscher Landschaftsräume beschäftigen.
Zu
beziehen bei: Gebrüder Bornträger, Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin und Stuttgart,
E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Johannesstr.
La forêt et sa culture sur sol à nappe temporaire –
Contraintes subies, choix des essences, interventions et gestion durable par
Gérard Lévy et Yves Lefèvre – avec le concours de la Direction de l'Espace
rural et de la Forêt, Ministère de l'Agriculture et de la Pêche.
Sols à nappe temporaire sont
normalement réservé à la forêt, en raison de leur propriété physique
défavorable et sont pour le forestier particulièrement difficile à gérer.
C'est la raison pour laquelle
ce livre contribue d'une manière très importante à comprendre meilleur les
relations écologiques complexes entre les forêts et les sols à nappe
temporaire. L'ouvrage est écrit par deux auteurs qui connaissent parfaitement
le sujet traité auquel ils ont consacré avec leur équipe beaucoup d'années de
recherche. C'est pourquoi cette ouvrage rendra le plus grand service aux
forestiers de terrain confronté avec la gestion du sol a nappe temporaire,
parce qu'il trouveront de judicieux conseils sur la choix des essences, la
conduite des peuplements, et aussi sur les méthodes d'amélioration les mieux
adaptées aux différents situations écologiques.
Le
livre est diffusé par le Service Édition de l'École nationale du Génie rural,
des Eaux et des Forêts de Nancy,14, rue Girardet, CS 4216, 54042 Nancy CEDEX, à
un prix de 220 FF.
Conservation Tillage in
Soil
erosion from croplands in the
Price: USD 59.95, outside US,
Orders to:
The Haworth Press,
Sizes and Shapes of Humic Substances.
Special Issue of Soil Science, vol.164, no. 11, pp.775-870. November 1999.
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. ISSN 0038-075X.
This series
of papers, assembles by C.E. Clapp and M.H.B. Hayes, focuses on considerations
of the sizes and shapes of humic macromolecules. The initiative arose because
of the divergent views held by participants at a symposium in October 1997. The
various concepts arose from studies of different soils using different
experimental techniques. The matter/controversy can best be resolved when data
are available from applications of the same advanced techniques and procedures
to a variety of humic substances from different sources. The present collection
of papers summarizes the status of the concepts and illuminates the controversy
of size and shape of the molecule. The views expressed may stimulate
researchers to pool their views, skills, and instrumentation and set about
finding a solution to this fundamental aspect of humic structures.
Price: USD 26.00.
Orders to:
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
User Requirements Study for remote sensing based
spatial information for the sustainable management of forests.
Final Report. ITC, FAO, IKC Natuurbeheer, a.o., 1999, xi + 25 p.
This study
originated from problems observed in relation to information availability for
decision-making purposes in sustainable forest management as a result of
experiences gained in international programmes and processes over the past
decades worldwide. A solution to the problems observed was suggested through
the FAME (Forest Assessment and Monitoring Environment) concept, comprising an
end-to-end forest assessment and monitoring system. This is an integrated
system, with functions for image data input, transmission, acquisition,
processing, modelling and archiving, including the education and training
required for these purposes. The study aimed to address the following issues:
(1) Assessment of requirements for spatial information in order to support
sustainable forest management; (2) Preliminary evaluation of the extent to
which the requirements for spatial information can be met by existing and
planned remote sensing systems; and (3) Identification of the requirements for,
and components of, an improved information supply mechanism in the form of an
end-to-end information system. The International Institute carried out the
study for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC), The Netherlands, in
cooperation with many organizations and institutes. The final report is
supplemented with eight technical documents. The study has revealed a
substantial and urgent global need for spatial data and information on forests.
This need is particularly observed at a local level and at sub-national levels
All themes that require spatial information are relevant, irrespective of
level. Site information needs include topography, hydrology, soils and
geomorphology. Most important are the themes of land and forest cover, and
forest degradation. The information requirements in all cases refer to both
state and change parameters. The results of the study have been laid down in a
Final Report and in Technical Documents, which can be downloaded from the ITC
URL: www.itc.nl/forestry/urs. A limited
number of hard copies is available.
Requests to:
Mr. S. Beerens, ITC,
Perspectives on Biodiversity. Valuing its Role in an
Everchanging World. National Research Council. National
Academy Press,
This report
reviews current understanding of the value of biodiversity and the methods that
are useful in assessing that value in particular circumstances. Many federal
agencies and state natural resources agencies in the
Price: USD 37.00, plus handling and postal charges.
Orders to:
Nature and Human Society. The Quest for a Sustainable
World. Proceedings of the 1997 Forum on Biodiversity. Peter H. Raven, editor. Tania Williams,
Associate Editor. National Academy Press,
The extent
and variability of life on Earth is referred to as ”biodiversity”. Scientists
in many disciplines have engaged in extensive exploration of biodiversity. Many
advances have been made since the National Forum on BioDiversity was held in
1986. Although our collective knowledge is growing rapidly, many scientific
advances are still needed, and much current information is not widely known
beyond the community of scientists who study biodiversity. The Second National
Forum on BioDiversity was held in 1997. It provided a venue for the world’s
leading experts in the biodiversity sciences, ranging from agronomy to zoology,
to discuss their understanding and future scientific directions. The forum had
three goals: (1) review state-of-the-art science that helps us to understand
Earth’s biological diversity; (2) engage scientists and non-scientists in a
discussion of what science is, how it works, and the issues that scientists
should address, including issues of practical importance to the public; and (3)
make the information available accessible to the general public in an
understandable way. This proceeding’s volume accomplishes that goal. It is
derived from the research literature and forum activities, and it explains
biodiversity in lay terms.
Price: USD 79.95, plus handling and postal charges.
Orders to:
Sustainable Land Management for the Oxisols of the
Latin American Savannas. Dynamics of soil organic matter and indicators of soil
quality. R. Thomas and M.A. Ayarza, editors. Centro Internacional
de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT),
The Oxisols
(Ferralsols) cover very large areas in the tropics. They are characterized by a
good physical structure, but low fertility and high acidity. They are
susceptible to erosion. In Latin America, most of these soils are found in the
savannas of
To halt or
reverse land degradation, farmers, extension workers, and policymakers need
early warning signals of land degradation as, by the time this is visible, the
costs of remedial treatment are often too high to be implemented. In terms of
soil indicators, measurements of bulk soil are often not sensitive enough to
detect the initiation of the processes of degradation. This study investigated
changes in the bulk soil and its fractions under different land uses to
identify more sensitive parameters.
It has 18
chapters and one with general conclusions and further research needs.
Price: In Colombia USD 15, other developing
countries USD 16, elsewhere USD 20.
Orders to:
CIAT, Publications Distribution Office, Apartado Aéreo 6713,
Systems and Farmer Participatory Research.
Developments in Research on Natural Resources Management.
S. Fujisaka, editor, with the collaboration of A. Jones. Centro Internacional
de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT),
Scientists
working for CIAT in Latin America, Asia and
Price: In Colombia USD 20, other developing
countries USD 24, elsewhere USD 30.
Orders to:
CIAT, Publications Distribution Office, Apartado Aéreo 6713,
Agriculture as a mimic of natural ecosystems. Special
issue of Agroforestry Systems, vol. 45, ix + 446 p., 1999.
Kluwer Academic Publishers,
The aim of
this workshop, held in
Orders to:
In North, Central and South America: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Soil Resources of
The
European Soil Bureau (ESB) was created in 1996 as a network of national soil
science institutions. Its main tasks are to collect, harmonise, organise and
distribute soil information for
Orders to:
National sales agents of EU publications, or Office for Official Publications
of the European Communities,
Modelling of Transport Processes in Soils at various
scales in time and space. J. Feyen and K. Wiyo, editors. Wageningen Pers, Wageningen, 1999,
794 p. ISBN 90-74134-76-9. Softcover.
The soil
protects to varying degrees the underlying aquifers. The climate, land use and
the soil properties determine the amount of fresh water and chemicals that seep
into the underground. A good understanding of the filtering and cleaning capacity
of the soil is of paramount importance for assessing the vulnerability of the
underlying aquifers. This understanding is a must to better define policies for
land use, the use of chemicals and the dumping of wastes. This book forms the
proceedings of the International Workshop of EurAgEng’s Field of Interest on
Soil and Water, held in November
Price: NLG 275.00
Orders to:
Wageningen Pers,
The Role of Information in Decision Making in
Agricultural Research and Practice. Conference issue of the
Quarterly Bulletin of the International Association of Agricultural Information
Specialists. Vol. 44, nos. 1 and 2, 1999, 153 p. A. P. Powell and B.
Schwlindwein, editors. IAALD, ISSN
1019-9926.
The
conference with the above title was held in
Orders to:
Miss Margot Bellamy, IAALD, CAB International,
Sistema Brasileiro de Classificação de Solos.
Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA), Centro Nacional de
Pesquisa de Solos (CNPS), Rio de Janeiro, 1999, xxvi + 412 p. ISBN
85-7383-056-5.
This publication
starts with brief introductory chapters on the use and development of the soil
classification systems in
Orders to: EMBRAPA
Produção de Informação, Caixa Postal 040315, CEP 70770-901 Brasília, DF,
Brasil. Fax: +55-61-272-4168. E-mail vendas@spi.embrapa.br
Homepage of EMBRAPA Solos: www.cnps.embrapa.br
TROPENBOS Publications
The
Tropenbos Foundation was established in 1988 with as main objectives to
contribute to the conservation of tropical rain forests and promote their wise
use; and to involve local research institutions in the above objectives and to
increase their capacity in this regard. At present, sites are operational in
Monitoring and Modelling Hydrological Fluxes in
Support of Nutrient Cycling Studies in Amazonian Rain Forest Ecosystems.
Tropenbos Series
This
publication gives the results of long-term research on hydrological and
nutrient cycling in four undisturbed forest ecosystems in the Colombian Amazon.
Amounts and dynamics of water fluxes in
the forest compartments were followed by way of a monitoring programme and
through models. The implications of the main findings are reviewed in terms of
their implications for nutrient cycling and forest management. The study
provided detailed climatic data and information about the hydrological
functioning of natural forest ecosystems in the Colombian Amazon. This can
serve as a reference for impact studies and may support the development of
sustainable forms of land use. Results from the study contribute to enlarging
local knowledge related to the hydrological functioning of undisturbed forests
in Colombian Amazonia and to better understanding of related processes.
Price: NLG 80.00.
Orders to:
see below.
Reduced Impact Logging in the
The main
objective of the study was to contribute to the formulation of a silvicultural
concept under which timber can be extracted from the Greenheart forest in
Price: NLG 30.00.
Orders to:
The Tropenbos Foundation,
Agriculture, Fertilizers and the Environment.
M. Laegreid, O.C. Bockman and O. Kaarstad. CABI
Publishing in association with Norsk Hydro ASA. CABI Publishing,
This
textbook provides factual information and a balanced scientific review of the
environmental and sustainability issues relating to fertilizer use and how its
environmental impact can be minimized. This attractively produced book,
suitable for undergraduate and college students in soils, crops and
environmental sciences, as well as for agricultural advisers and extension
workers, has three parts: (1) global food production and challenges; (2) soil
productivity, fertilizer use and the environment; and (3) productivity and
sustainability challenges.
Price: GBP 22.50 or USD 40.00.
Orders to:
CABI Publishing, CAB International,
Pflanzenbelastung auf kontaminierten Standorten –
Plant Impact at Contaminated Sites.
Internationaler Workshop am 1. und 2. Dezember 1997 am
Fraunhofer-Institut für Umweltchemie und Ökotoxikologie, Schmallenberg,
herausgegeben vom Deutschen Umweltbundesamt. Reihe: Berichte des
Umweltbundesamtes, Band 1/99, 1999, II, 302 Seiten, 17x24 cm, kartoniert, ISBN
3 503 04810 3.
Am 1./2. Dezember 1997 wurde im
Auftrag des Deutschen Bundesministeriums für Umwelt, Naturschutz und
Reaktorsicherheit vom Fraunhofer Institut für Umweltchemie und Ökotoxikologie
in Schmallenberg ein internationaler Workshop über "Pflanzenbelastung auf
kontaminierten Standorten" ("Plant impact at contaminated
sites") organisiert und durchgeführt. Der Workshop diente dazu,
internationale Erfahrungen über die Belastung von Pflanzen auf kontaminierten
Standorten, die Bewertung dieser Kontamination sowie geeignete Maßnahmen der
Gefahrenabwehr, insbesondere Dekontaminations-, Sicherungs- sowie Schutz- und
Beschränkungsmaßnahmen zusammenzutragen, kritisch zu vergleichen und unter dem
Gesichtspunkt praktischer Anwendbarkeit auszuwerten. Der Workshop bot darüber
hinaus ein Forum, die Fachöffentlichkeit mit den Grundzügen der deutschen
Bodenschutzverordnung, insbesondere mit der Ableitung der Bodenwerte für den
Pflanzenpfad bekanntzumachen, was im Hinblick auf eine optimale kostensenkende
Beratung betroffener Grundstückseigentümer aber auch für die Entwicklung
geeigneter Sanierungsmaßnahmen geboten erschien. Außerdem wurde der Stand des
derzeitigen, praktisch umsetzbaren Wissens dargestellt und dokumentiert.
Wissenschaftlern und Behörden, die sich mit Boden- und Umweltschutz,
insbesondere Pflanzenschutz auf kontaminierten Standorten befassen, sowie mit
dem Ziel, die Qualität von Böden aufrechtzuerhalten oder wiederherzustellen,
bietet dieser Bericht mit einer Auswertung der Ergebnisse dieses Workshops eine
wichtige Arbeitsgrundlage.
Preis: DM 86/ATS 628/Sfr
78
Zu beziehen von: Erich Schmidt Verlag, Viktoriastr. 44A, 33602
Bielefeld, Deutschland; Telefax: (+49)-(0)521-583-08-29; Website: www.erich-schmidt-verlag.de
Essential Role of Potassium in Diverse Cropping
Systems. Ed. A.E.
Johnston, Proceedings of Workshop C, organized by the International Potash
Institute at the 16 World Congress of Soil Science,
Contributions
by speakers from different countries discuss the following topics: K status and
crop response to K in intensive cropping systems with annual crops; The
response of permanent crops to K and the need for K under adverse soil and
climatic conditions; Economic considerations of K use in relation to further
research needs and prospects. The main focus of the publication is to highlight
the essential need for potassium within the overall framework of integrated
plant nutrient management. Current data from different countries show that
there is a considerable imbalance in the ratio of nitrogen to phosphorous, with
too little K being applied to crops in most farming systems. The publication
will be of interest to a wide range of people involved in ensuring a
sustainable supply of wholesome food, including academics, agronomists and
advisers, fertilizer production and marketing staff and policy makers.
Price: 15
Orders to:
International Potash Institute,
Berechnung von Prüfwerten zur Bewertung von Altlasten –
Ableitung und Berechnung von Prüfwerten der Deutschen Bundes-Bodenschutz- und
Altlastenverordnung für den Wirkungspfad Boden-Mensch aufgrund der
Bekanntmachung der Ableitungsmethoden und –maßstäbe im Bundesanzeiger Nr. 161a
vom 28. August 1999. Herausgegeben vom Deutschen Umweltbundesamt.
Autoren: G. Bachmann, R.
Konietzka, K. Schneider und J. Oltmanns. 606 Seiten, DIN A5, ISBN 3 503 05825
7.
In der deutschen
Bundes-Bodenschutz- und Altlastenverordnung vom 12. Juli 1999 sind Prüf- und
Maßnahmenwerte von großer Bedeutung. Daher wurden Methoden und Maßstäbe für die
Ableitung der Prüf- und Maßnahmenwerte (§ 4 Abs. 5 BBodSchV) im Bundesanzeiger
bekanntgemacht. Diese Bekanntmachung verweist ihrerseits wieder auf die vom
Bundesamt vorgelegte Arbeitsgrundlage zur Berechnung und Begründung der
Prüfwerte, wodurch die konkreten Schritte dokumentiert werden, die der
Ableitung und Empfehlung eines Prüfwertes zugrunde liegen. Die große rechtliche
Bedeutung von Prüfwerten wird dadurch unterstrichen, dass ihre Über- oder
Unterschreitung in hohem Maße über Sanierungskosten entscheidet, wobei im Falle
einer Überschreitung eine Einzelfallbeurteilung der kontaminierten Fläche
rechtlich notwendig ist. Daher ist dieses Loseblattwerk mit den
Berechnungsgrundlagen für alle von Bedeutung, die Boden-Prüfwerte in der Praxis
anwenden oder Gefährdungsabschätzungen bei Altlasten vornehmen.
Ergänzbare Ausgabe,
einschließlich Grundlieferung und Spezialordner.
Preis: DM 196,- / Euro 100,21 / ATS 1431,- / Sfr 174,-
Zu beziehen von: Erich Schmidt Verlag, Viktoriastr. 44A, 33602
Bielefeld, Deutschland; Telefax: (+49)-(0)521-583-08-29; Website: www.erich-schmidt-verlag.de
Soil Chemistry. Processes and Constituents. G. Filep. Akadémai Kiadó (Academy Publishing House)
The topic
of the book is the quantitative characterization of chemical reactions taking
place in the soil, as well as the properties of the main soil components.
Outlines are given on the physico-chemical and colloid-chemical regularities
necessary for the evaluation of soil chemical processes; the individual
reaction types and the mechanism of mass transport are discussed in detail.
Attention is focused on the properties and roles of soil colloids, the
mechanism of the adsorption of ion exchange, the chemical and colloid chemical
interpretation of soil acidity, the evaluation of the acid-base buffer capacity
of the soils, as well as on the principles of the modelling of salt and ion
transport in soils.The book has 9 chapters: 1. Introduction (5; 21; 1;2); 2.
Chemical principles (58; 9; 16; 27); 3. The solid phase of the soil (49; 16;
31; 69); 4. Liquid and gaseous phases of
soil (24; 9; 8; 53); 5. Solubility and redox equilibria (36; 4; 13; 27); 6.
Soil colloids (25; 5; 13; 20); 7. Adsorption and ion exchange (55; 6; 25; 70);
8. Soil acidity and alkalinity (33; 6; 18; 65); 9. Modelling of solute
transport in soil (30; 1; 9; 69). The numbers in brackets express the number of
pages, tables, figures and references, respectively.
Price: USD 72.00.
Orders to:
Akadémai Kiadó,
Soil Analysis Handbook of Reference Methods. Soil and
Plant Analysis Council,
This book
is a standard laboratory technique manual for the most commonly used soil
analysis procedures. First published in 1974, this Handbook has changed over
the years to reflect evolving needs. New test methods and modifications have
been added, as well as new sections on nitrate, heavy metals, and quality
assurance plans for agricultural testing laboratories. The book also addresses
the major methods for managing plant nutrition currently in use in the
Price: USD 69.95, DEM 137.00, GBP 47.00, plus
handling and postal charges.
Orders to:
CRC Press – address see below. In Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia:
Springer-Verlag,
Terminology for Integrated Resources Planning and
Management. Compiled and edited by K. Choudhury and L.J.M.
Jansen. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations(FAO), Rome, and
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi, 1999, vii + 69 p.
Softcover.
Since its
appointment as Task Manager for the Implementation of Chapter 10 of UNCED’s
Agenda 21, FAO has developed an integrated approach to the planning and
management of land resources. This approach emphasizes the participation of
stakeholders at national, provincial and local levels in planning and
decision-making as well as the integration of technical, industrial, legal and
socio-economic aspects of the process. Cooperation among experts from various
disciplines involved and the integration of the respective results are required
in order to identify and evaluate all biophysical, socio-economic and legal
attributes of land. The terminology included in this publication should
contribute to the creation of a common technical language in land resources
planning and management. The terms and definitions included encompass
conservation and management of soil, water and vegetation; climate; farming
systems; crop production, livestock and fish production; land tenure and
sustainable development. As long as stocks last, this useful publication is
free of charge.
Requests to: Ms. Louisa
Jansen, FAO, Via delle Terme di Caracalla, I-00100 Rome, Italy. E-mail: Louisa.Jansen@FAO.Org
The History of Pedology in
Beginning
with the late nineteenth century, scientific expeditions to remote parts of
Dan
H. Yaalon
The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Book
Series.
The IGBP was established by the International Council for Science (IGBP)
in 1986 with the aim to describe and understand the interactive physical, chemical
and biological processes that regulate the total Earth system, the unique
environment that it provides for life, the changes that are occurring in this
system, and the manner in which they are influenced by human activities. The
IGBP book series started in 1996. Recently were published:
The Terrestrial Biosphere and Global Change.
Implications for Natural and Managed Ecosystems. IGBP Book
Series 4. B. Walker, W. Steffen, J. Canawell and J. Ingram, editors. Cambridge University
Press, 1999, 452 p. ISBN 0-521-62429-0, hardcover; ISBN 0-521-62480-0,
softcover.
This
synthesis summarizes the international global research effort in the Global
Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE) Core Project of the IGBP. Five major
thematic areas are covered: ecosystem physiology; ecosystem structure and
composition; terrestrial production systems; global biogeochemistry; ecological
complexity (biodiversity). A summary of the integrated and interactive effects
of global change on the terrestrial biosphere for four key regions of the world
is presented, as well as a projection of future trends in the terrestrial
component of the global carbon cycle.
Price: GBP 65.00, hardcover; GBP 30.00, softcover.
Orders to:
see below.
The Changing Ocean Carbon Cycle. A Midterm Synthesis
and the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study. IGBP Book Series 5. R.B. Hanson, H.W. Ducklow and
J.G. Field, editors. Cambridge University Press, 1999, 520 p. ISBN
0-521-65199-9, hardcover; ISBN 0-521-65603-6, softcover.
The world’s
oceans act as a reservoir, with the capacity to absorb and retain carbon
dioxide. Variability in the ocean carbon cycle could exert significant feedback
effects during conditions of climate change. The Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
(JGOFS) is a multidisciplinary programme to address the interactions between
the biology, chemistry and physics of marine systems, with emphasis on the
transport and transformations of carbon within the ocean and across its
boundaries. This volume provides a synthesis of JGOFS science and its
achievements to date.
Price: GBP 75.00, hardcover; GBP 35.00 softcover.
Orders to:
Soil Fertility Initiative for Sub-Saharan
This
publication contains the proceedings of a consultation on the Soil Fertility
Initiative (SFI) for sub-Saharan Africa, which was held in
Price: USD 14.00.
Orders to:
see below.
AEZWIN. An interactive multiple-criteria analysis tool for land
resources appraisal. World Soil Resources Report
Since the
early 1980’s, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) have been
collaborating on expanding FAO’s agro-ecological zones (AEZ) methodology of
land resources appraisal by incorporating decision support tools for optimizing
the use of these resources. Agro-ecological zoning involves the inventory,
characterization and classification of land resources for assessment of their
potential for agricultural production systems. The software package documented
in this report is an upgraded version for Windows 95 and NT of earlier software
developed for an AEZ project in
Price: USD 25.00.
Orders to:
national sales agents of FAO publications. Or: Sales and Marketing Group,
Information Division, FAO, Viale delle
Soil Salinity Assessment. Methods and interpretation of electrical
conductivity measurements. FAO
Irrigation and Drainage Paper 57. FAO,
This paper
presents updated technology for assessing soil salinity based on the
measurement of electrical conductivity. The technology has been extensively and
successfully tested in the field and it a sound, reliable, accurate method,
suited to a wide variety of useful applications. The equipment required is
commercially available. The instrumental methodology advocated is practical,
cost-effective and well developed for all general applications. It is cheaper,
faster and more informative than traditional methods, based on soil sampling
and laboratory analysis.
Price: USD 15.00.
Orders to:
see below.
Irrigation in
This publication
is the fourth in the series of reports prepared within the framework of FAO’s
Aquastat programme, aimed at presenting comprehensive picture of water
resources development and irrigation, with emphasis on developing countries.
This volume presents the results of surveys performed in 1997 and 1998, relying
on country-based statistics. A general summary presents a synopsis on water
resources development, irrigation and drainage in the region, and country
profiles describe the specific situation of each Asian country.
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Modern water control and management practices in irrigation. Impact on
performance. Water Report 19. FAO,
Water plays
a critical role in food production. Irrigated agriculture will have an
important role in helping to increase the production of food to meet future
demand. This publication reviews irrigation schemes and modernization
initiatives worldwide in order to assess and comment on the impact of modern
water control and management approaches.
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The economic assessment of soil nutrient depletion.
Analytical issues for framework development. Issues of Sustainable Land
Management no. 7. P. Drechsel and
While there
is ample literature on soil nutrient depletion and the benefits of soil organic
matter (SOM), there is only sparse reference to the economic assessment of the
depletion of soil nutrients and carbon. Most related studies refer to soil
degradation in general or soil erosion, as one important process of nutrient
depletion. The two major objectives of the present publication are: (1) to
provide an overview about the assessment of nutrient depletion and the major
processes of nutrient depletion, and (2) to provide an overview on different
economic valuation approaches for nutrient depletion, including soil carbon
depletion, and thus to add to their discussion. An economic assessment of the
costs of nutrient depletion in Sub-Saharan Africa is also given. The study
shows that appropriate methods exist to illustrate nutrient and SOM depletion
in economic terms. On average, as much as 7 percent of the gross domestic
product of many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa is due to the consumption or
loss of soil nutrients. This mining process cannot continue indefinitely as the
resources will become exhausted.
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Soils and Geomorphology. Third edition. P.W.
Birkeland. Oxford University Press,
Although
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geomorphologists, sedimentologists , environmental geologists, and
archaeologists working in Quaternary research. This book is an attempt to fill
that gap. The emphasis is on the study of soils in the field. In the first
chapters soil morphology, weathering and soil forming processes are discussed,
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Soil Taxonomy is used throughout. The book ends with a chapter on applications.
The focus is on the
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bio-climate and length of growing season on the soil-scape map. It depicts 20
regions and 60 subregions. Climatic data covering 50 years of observation at
350 meteorological stations, and up-to-date soil data were used for this study.
The book gives for all the (sub)regions the detailed agro-ecological settings,
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soils occurring in the subregion. The book is well-illustrated with many colour
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Standard Soil Methods for Long-Term Ecological
Research. G. Ph.
Robertson, D.C. Coleman, C.S. Bledsoe and Ph. Sollins, editors. Oxford
University Press,
This is the
second volume in a series about the results of the work of the Unites
States Long-Term Ecological Research
(LTER) Network. This Network is a collaborative ecological research effort that
promotes synthesis and comparative research across disparate ecosystems and
ecological research programs. From an initial six sites selected in 1980, the
Network has grown to 21 sites, ranging from the arctic tundra to hot desert,
from tropical rain forest to suburban watersheds, and it represents the joint
efforts of more than 1000 scientists. It is well known that soils present
special problems with respect to standardization. It is common to have three or
more methods available for measuring a particular soil property. Agreement on a
common protocol that will work inmost situations – with alternative procedures
identified for the odd soil – could greatly help to simplify the interpretation
of both subtle and major differences that invariably emerge in long-term or
cross-site studies. The present volume contains a set of common protocols that
could be used to characterize the physical, chemical and biological properties
of soil from disparate Network sites. In each of the papers presented, it is
attempted to lay out a detailed specific protocol for a number of soil properties
known to be ecologically useful. The selected properties are: physical (soil
water and temperature status; soil structure and other physical properties);
chemical (soil carbon and nitrogen; exchangeable ions, pH and cation exchange
capacity; soil phosphorous); biology (soil gases; plant litter stores,
decomposition, and nutrient turnover; dinitrogen fixation; soil carbon and
nitrogen availability, mineralization en nitrification, and soil respiration;
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soil microbial communities, soil invertebrates; methods for ecological studies
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demography). This book is a broadly based compendium of standardized measurement
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on the development policy agenda. A number of international initiatives and
donor programmes have been established which aim to address the problem of soil
fertility decline, and would imply major investment of public funds. This
report reviews the evidence used to define the nature of the soil fertility
problem in
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Promoting Farmer Innovation. Harnessing local environmental knowledge in
Successful
land husbandry is the key to reversing dryland degradation, attaining food
security and promoting sustainable dryland development. The best recipe is to
build upon the local knowledge of farmers, pastoralists and other land users.
While this is widely recognized and stressed in development circles, there have
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Innovation in Rainfed Agriculture (PFI) is the title of an innovative programme
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livelihoods may be endangered by land degradation and associated loss of
agricultural productivity. There is a growing awareness that sustainability of
subsistence agriculture on steeplands is steadily deteriorating as a result of
rapid population growth and the overexploitation of the land resource base.
Given the various limitations affecting steeplands agriculture, few soil
management and conservation options remain. This Bulletin brings concepts and
principles of good land husbandry into focus, as a basis for developing
different ways of thinking about safe management of steeplands within the
environmental, cultural and economic context of the farm families that inhabit
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changing situations and opportunities in order to maximise production. Farmers
need to be helped to develop this capability by encouraging their innovations
and by involving them in a learning process in which they are exposed to new
knowledge and technologies. The present Bulletin is meant as a guideline for
those involved in the promotion, planning and implementation of sound
agricultural development initiatives in hilly areas. Because of the limited
capacity in some government and non-governmental organisations to promote
agriculture at an adequate rate, emphasis has been placed on training farmers
to act as extensionists and innovators. The main recommendations relate to
basic principles of improved crop and land management such as simplified diagnostic
procedures, adequate extension and training participatory approaches, adapted
and widely-adopted low-cost simple farming activities engendering farmers’
motivation and self-esteem, credit and market facilities, and simple
qualitative methods of evaluating project impact carried out by farmers
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SOILpak for Cotton Growers. Third edition.
D.C. McKenzie, editor. NSW Agriculture, 1998, 352 p., ringbound, plus Pocket
notes p. 33. ISBN 0-7310-9849-8. Price:
AUD 80.00, plus postage.
SOILpak for dryland farmers on the red soil of Central
Western NSW. A.N.
Because
these books are similar in style and format, they are reviewed together. They
are written as guides to best practice soil management in a specific area and
on specific soils. However, they are much more than that. Each presents the
skills of soil examination and evaluation in a comprehensive and attractive
package. Although intended for growers, extension officers and consultants in
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Understanding Humic Substances. Advanced Methods, Properties and Applications. E.A.
Ghabbour and G. Davies, editors. Royal Society of Chemistry,
This book
complements the volume Humic Substances: Structures, Properties and Uses, and
the volume mentioned above, both published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Humic substances are highly functionalized, carbon-rich molecules with a strong
tendency to aggregate. This helps HSs to hide their identities as
macromolecules or self-assembling systems. HSs are chameleons that can behave
like lipids, polysaccharides or proteins depending on the circumstances. We
need to know HSs’ molecular structures in order to understand their properties.
The importance of HSs in the environment and human health is encouraging the
best minds with the best tools in a concerted effort to solve one of nature’s
greatest mysteries. Although many questions related to HSs have been answered,
many fundamental questions remain. The present book is derived from Humic
Substances Seminar III, which was held in
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World Food Prospects: Critical Issues for the Early
Twenty-first Century. 2020 Vision Food Policy Report P.
Pinstrup-Andersen, R. Pandya-Lorch and M.W. Rosegrant. International Food
Policy Research Institute, Washington, 1999, 32 p. Downloaded from IFPRI
homepage.
Almost all
of the increased demand for food between 1995 and 2020 will take place in the
developing world, according to a new IFPRI food policy report. In developing
countries during that period, population is expected to grow by 32 percent,
urbanization will continue apace, and per capita incomes will increase. Despite
these changes, in
This
report and related ones, can be downloaded from: www.cgiar.org/ifpri/pubs/pubs.htm#fpr.
Rainfed Lowland Rice: Advances in Nutrient Management Research.
J.K. Ladha, L. Wade, A. Dobermann, W. Reichardt, G.J.D. Kirk and C. Piggin,
editors. International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, 1999, 304 p. ISBN
971-22-0117-1. Softcover.
Rainfed
lowland rice presents a series of unique challenges for nutrient research. It
is important to understand water and nutrient dynamics/balances and uptake and
use efficiency to obtain plant responses for sustainable increases in
productivity. But much of the research on resource management that is strategic
in nature can only be done at selected sites because of the inherent heterogeneity
of the rainfed lowland ecosystem. The Rainfed Lowland Rice Research Consortium,
together with the Ubon Rice Research Centre ,
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Soil – Structure interaction in urban civil
engineering. Proceedings of the Workshop,
The COST C7
Action started in 1996. Several countries were eager to come up with practical
recommendations for how to take soil-structure interaction effect in large
civil engineering projects in urban areas. The formulated objectives were to
make recommendations as comprehensive as possible in a European dimension. They
should correspond to the state of the art technology and be so formulated that not
only the specialists, but also all professionals involved in the planning and
design of structures could read them and take them into account. This report
contains the proceedings of a meeting held in 1999, the papers being arranged
in the four COST C7 Working Groups: Advanced numerical analysis; Interaction
between structural and geotechnical engineers; Field measurements and case
histories; and Geotechnical and environmental engineering for urban planning.
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Case Studies of Rangeland Desertification. Proceedings from an international workshop in
The
ever-increasing demand for food by a rapidly growing population has exerted
environmental stress resulting in widespread ecosystems degradation. An extreme
form of such degradation is desertification, which affects the living
conditions of about one billion people. As a result, this topic spawned the
U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification (UN-CCD). Desertification has
occurred in most regions of the world, cutting across a broad spectrum of
contrasts in climate, ecosystem types, land uses and socio/economic settings.
The complexity of this phenomenon has challenges our ability to categorize,
inventory, monitor and repair the condition of the land. The improper,
incomplete or out-of-context transfer of knowledge from one region or land use
category to another magnifies shortcomings in communication and understanding.
One of the most important distinctions to be made in relation to land
degradation is between cultivated land used for annual crop production and
rangelands. Rangelands represent a variety of ecosystems and landforms not
suited for intensive agriculture or forestry, because of limitations imposed by
climate, soils, or topography. Issues relevant to rangeland desertification
around the world were discussed at a workshop in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1997,
and the present publication contains a compilation of the presented case studies
as well as the conclusions reached.
The other
outcome is the book Rangeland Desertification (see next review)
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Rural and Farming Systems Analyses: Environmental
Perspectives. W. Doppler
and A. Koutsouris, editors. Margraf Verlag, Weikersheim, 1999, vii + 382 p. ISBN 3-8236-1320-0. Softcover.
This book forms
the proceedings of the Third European Symposium of the Association of Farming
Systems Research and Extension, which was held in Hohenheim in March 1998. The
volume has an introductory chapter about the framework of this symposium and
papers in the following sections: (1) Concepts and approaches for integrating
environmental perspectives (7 papers); (2) Management strategies for coping
with the environment (5 papers); (3) Use of local resources for rural
development (5 papers); (4) The role of institutions in managing ecosystems (6
papers); and Farming and rural systems in zones of transition (8 papers).
Common results of the discussions in the three symposia held to date on these
issues make clear that rural and farming systems analysis is based on the
systems philosophy. The history of rural and farming systems research shows an
increasing effort in taking into consideration farmers’ and rural people’s
conditions and development aspects and involve a wide range of disciplines. The
discussions have shown that rural and farming systems research provides a basis
and forum for different views of different disciplines never offered by
mono-disciplinary discussions and shows ways to integrate them.
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Modelling of Transport Processes in Soils at various
scales in time and space.
J. Feijen and K. Wiyo, editors. International Workshop of EurAgEng’s Field of
Interest on Soil and Water, Leuven, 24-26 November 1999. Wageningen Pers, Wageningen, 1999,
786 p. ISBN 90-74134-76-9. Softcover.
The soil
protects to varying degrees the underlying aquifers. The climate, land use and
the soil properties determine the amount of fresh water and chemicals that seep
into the underground. A good understanding of the filtering and cleaning
capacity of the soil is of paramount importance for assessing the vulnerability
of the underlying aquifers. This understanding is a must to better define
policies for land use, the use of chemicals and the dumping of wastes. To
discuss these issues, a workshop was organised under the auspices of EurAgEng’s
Field of Interest on Soil and Water. These proceedings include the texts of the
keynote papers and oral and poster presentations in the following sections: (1)
Modelling transport processes at the local level (9 papers); (2)
Characterisation of pore structure (8 papers); (3) Measurement techniques for
local-scale transport parameters (17 papers); (4) Processes determining water
flow and transport of nitrates, phosphates, heavy metals and pesticides in
spatially variable field soils (11 papers); (5) Effects of plants on the upper
boundary condition (4 papers); (6) Inverse optimization, calibration and
validity of simulation models (5 papers); (7) Determination of field-scale
parameters by upscaling local-scale parameters (4 papers); (8) Application of
modelling at field-scale (7 papers); (9) Processes determining water flow and
transport of nitrates, phosphates, heavy metals and pesticides at the regional
scale (5 papers); (10) Determination of critical parameters for transport
processes at the regional-scale (2 papers); (11) Determination of grid-scale parameters
by upscaling local-scale parameters (5 Papers); (12) Obtaining model
parameters, boundary and initial parameters from secondary and soft information
(5 papers); and (13) Application of modelling at regional scale ( 8 papers).
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Engineering Properties of Soils and Rocks.
Fourth edition. F.G.
Bell. Blackwell Science, 2000, ix + 482 p. ISBN 0-632-05205-8. Hardcover.
Civil engineers, mining engineers and engineering
geologists require a working knowledge of the engineering properties and
behaviour of the different soil and rock types, and this is usually not
provided in the standard texts on soil and rock mechanics.
This book provides extensive data on individual soil and
rock types and deals in some depth with their composition, texture, degree of
weathering and presence of fissures or discontinuities. It also considers the
description and classification of soils and rocks. This fourth edition has been
extensively revised and enlarged by fifty percent, with four new chapters. The
book also considers properties in terms of construction materials and mentions
methods of dealing with problem soils, groundwater etc. The book will be of
particular interest to professionals in geotechnical and geological engineering
and also to senior students in these fields.
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Tropical
Ecosystems and Ecological Concepts. P.L. Osborne. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and
New York, 2000, xiv + 464 p. ISBN 0-521-64251-5, hardcover; 0-521-64523-9,
Softcover.
Over one
third of the earth’s terrestrial surface is situated in the tropics, with
environments ranging from hot deserts to tropical rain forests. This
introductory textbook, aimed at students in tropical ecology, is a guide to the
major aquatic and terrestrial biomes in the tropics. Chapters describe the
ecology of deserts, grasslands, savannas, tropical rain forests, lakes, rivers
and floodplains, maintains, wetlands, mangroves, coral reefs and tropical
islands, with descriptive case studies providing a framework around which
ecological concepts are presented. Information is also given on the human
ecological dimension, with coverage of issues such as population growth,
urbanization, agriculture and fisheries, natural resource use and pollution,
conservation of biodiversity, climate change, and the concept of ecological
sustainability. The text is supported by boxes containing supplementary
material on a range of topics and organisms, plus mathematical concepts and
calculations, and is enlivened with diagrams, maps and photographs. A
cross-referenced glossary, references and an index are included also.
Price: GBP 70.00, USD 110.00, hardcover;
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Rice:
Nutrient Disorders & Nutrient Management. A. Dobermann and T.H. Fairhurst. Potash & Phosphate
Institute, Potash & Phosphate Institute of Canada, and International Rice
Research Institute, 2000, viii + 191 p. ISBN 981-04-2742-5. Softcover. With
CD-ROM.
Thirty years ago, persuading rice farmers to use modern
varieties and fertilizers was easy, because the yield increases were often
spectacular. Fertilizers were subsidized, irrigation facilities improved, rice
prices supported, these factors made rice intensification economically
attractive. Future yield increases will mostly result from the positive
interactions and simultaneous management of different agronomic aspects such as
nutrient supply, pest and disease control, and water. Decreasing subsidies and
the increasing responsibilities of farmers instead of governments for the
maintenance of irrigation facilities means that to achieve the required future
increases in rice production, extension services will need to switch from
distributing prescriptive packets of production technology to a more participatory
or client-based service function. The present handbook and CD-ROM provide a
guide for detecting nutrient deficiency and toxicity symptoms and managing
nutrients in rice grown in tropical and subtropical regions. Some background
information is included on the function of nutrients in the rice plant and
possible causes of nutrient deficiencies, together with a description of
nutrient deficiency symptoms, the effect of nutrient deficiency on plant
growth, and the effect of flooding on nutrient availability. Estimates of
nutrient removal in grain and straw have been included, and strategies for
preventing and treating nutrient deficiencies are described. The main targets
of the handbook are the irrigated and rainfed lowland rice systems. Where
appropriate, additional information is given for upland rice or rice grown in
flood-prone conditions. The texts are illustrated with many color photographs.
For more information, please contact: tfairhurst@ppi-ppic.org; homepage: www.eseap.org; or e.hetter@cgiar.org; homepage:
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Soil
Fertility Kit. A toolkit for acid, upland soil fertility management in
Southeast Asia.
T.S. Dierolf, T.H. Fairhurst and E.W. Mutert. Potash & Phosphate Institute,
2000, x + 149 p. ISBN 981-04-2745-X. Softcover.
In Southeast Asia, the greatest potential for future
increases in agricultural production and productivity lies in the 295 million
hectares of upland or rainfed land. Most upland soils have a low fertility
status and vulnerable to degradation when cleared of the protective forest cover.
The major causes for soil erosion and upland degradation in SE Asia are rapid
deforestation and poor crop management. Biological, physical and chemical
deterioration of these soils mark the onset of a vicious poverty cycle of
decreasing yields, income reduction, and environmental destruction, and as a
result, most small-scale upland farmers are unable to participate fully in the
developing regional market economy. Participatory methods are more suitable
than prescriptive packages in upland farming systems development, and
technology needs to be developed and tested with the full involvement of local
farmers. There is an urgent need for soil fertility recapitalization in the
uplands where years of neglect have led to a decreasing soil fertility. The
present publication is a compendium of information and methods for managing
upland soil fertility in SE Asia. This handbook with its many color
photographs, graphs and figures, is a useful toolkit for extension workers,
farmers and researchers. Part 1 presents practical tools and participatory
approaches for investigation and diagnosis of soil fertility problems in acid,
upland soils. Part 2 provides information on the chemical, physical and
biological properties of acid, upland soils, and the major causes of soil fertility
problems. Part 3 is a compilation of essential information for extension
workers and researchers on soil classification, soil/plant sampling and
testing, identification of nutrient deficiencies fertilizer recommendations,
simple field tests, critical soil/plant nutrient levels, and nutrient uptake
and removal in crops. The book also contains a bibliography of relevant
publications.
Price: USD 15.00, plus USD 10.00 for
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Proceedings
of the 5th International Conference on Precision Agriculture,
At this well-attended meeting more than 200 oral and
poster papers were presented at four concurrent sessions: natural resource
variability, managing variability, engineering technology, crop modeling,
remote sensing, profitability, environment, technology transfer, and new
sessions on geostatistics/sampling, management zones, management of crop
qualities, integrated approaches and new applications around the world.
Participants were convened in working groups to discuss and make
recommendations on needs and use of Decision Support Tools. A summary of the
workgroups comments and recommendations are also presented.
Price: USD 14.00.
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Labormethoden-Dokumentation.
Geologisches Jahrbuch, Reihe
G, Heft 8. J. Utermann, koordinator, unter Mitarbeit von A. Gorny,
M. Hauenstein, V. Malessa, U. Müller und B. Scheffer. Bundesanstalt für
Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe und den Staatlichen Geologischen Diensten in
der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Hannover. E. Schweizerbart’sche
Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, 2000, 215 S. ISBN 3-510-95864-0. ISSN
1431-5084. Mit CD-ROM.
Die Staatlichen Geologischen
Dienste setzen für viele Bodenkenngrössen unterschiedliche bodenanalytische
Verfahren ein. In der vorliegenden Labormethoden Dokumentation wird eine
Prioritätensetzung in dem Sinne vorgenommen, dass allgemein verwendete
Verfahren aufgenommen sind, ohne dabei weniger verbreitete Verfahren
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Die Labormethoden Dokumentation
ist als Datenbank aufgebaut, so dass sie jederzeit um weitere Methoden und/oder
Inhalte ergänzt bzw. aktualisiert werden kann. Über eine Methodencode Nummer
sind die Methoden direkt mit Analysenergebnissen in Labordatenbanken
verküpfbar. Inhaltlich geht die Labormethoden Dokumentation über die reine
Darstellung von Analyseverfahren hinaus. Der analytisch weniger versierte
Anwender kann sich anhand von Methodenkurzbeschreibungen schnell Informationen
zu den Analysenverfahren verschaffen. Umgekehrt erhält der Analytiker über Datenfelder
zu Anwendungsbereichen und zur Plausibilität von Messdaten die Möglichkeit,
sich grundlegende Information im Hinblick auf die Verwendung der Analysendaten
zu erschliessen. In einem weiteren Datenfeld werden Restriktionen bzw.
methodische Fehlerquellen aus der Sicht erfahrener Analytiker aufgelistet. Die
Methoden werden entsprechend einem Mindestdetaillierungsgrad beschrieben. Bei
vorliegenden Normen und anderen Standards wird weitgehend auf diese verwiesen,
andernfalls werden die Methoden ausführlich dargestellt.
Preis: DM 66.50.
Bestellungen
an: E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Johannesstrasse 3A, D-70176,
Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Fax: +49-711-625005. E-mail: mail@schweizerbart.de.
Compendium
of Soil Clean-up Technologies and Soil Remediation Companies. 2nd edition, 2000.
United Nations, New York, Geneva, 2000, vii + 143 p. ISBN 92-1-116748-5. Sales
number E.00.II.E.7. Softcover.
This compendium outlines the major clean-up technologies,
which have been well established in the commercial soil remediation sector. The
technologies are grouped according to the mechanism employed: chemical,
physical or biological. It also presents a listing of non-commercial websites,
which provide information about technologies, companies and events in the soil
decontamination field. In addition, the publication offers a list of soil
remediation companies giving contact information, technologies used and number
of employees.
Price: USD 40.00
Orders to:
United Nations bookstores and distributors around the world, or: United Nations
Publications, Sales Office and Bookshop, CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland. Fax:
+41-22-917-0027. E-mail: unipubli@unog.ch.
Or: United Nations Publications, Sales and Marketing Section, 2 United Nations
Plaza, Room DC2-853, Dept. C023, New York, NY 10017, USA. Fax: +1-212-963-3489.
E-mail: publications@un.org. Homepage:
www.un.org/publications.
Sustainable
Agriculture in Sub-Saharan
The primary aim of this book is to provide a general outline
of the various multifaceted factors, particularly soil productivity that
influence sustainable agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. There is growing need
for a well-documented information source on the interrelationship between
sustainable agriculture and long-term soil productivity, and the author treats
all relevant factors involved. In this publication the main thrust of emphasis
is on technically feasible, economically profitable, environmentally
sustainable and socially acceptable means of increasing and maintaining soil
productivity on a long-term basis. Issues such as those related to the impact
of desertification and soil degradation, the role of biotechnology, integrated
fertilizer management, the role of organic matter and appropriate soil management
strategies are also discussed. The author, who has an experience of more than
20 years in Nigeria and Rwanda, calls also for a range of institutional
matters: active environmental pressure groups in every country to monitor
activities related to environment, and effective international linkages among
research institutions.
Price: USD 35.00; EUR 41.55.
Orders to:
Prof. A.J. Ayar, Higher Institute of Agriculture & Livestock, Ribilisi,
B.P. 3971, Kigali, Rwanda. E-mail: aj_rayar@yahoo.com.
Comparative
Performance Analysis of Agro-Ecosystems. C.A.J.M. de Bie. Doctoral thesis. ITC dissertation no. 75. ITC,
Enschede, 2000, 232 p. ISBN 90-5808-253-9. Softcover.
In this doctoral thesis land use concepts and land
evaluation approaches are reviewed. Recent advances in information technology
can contribute to a more efficient use of land management information for the
improvement of land use planning. The author introduces new land use database
software and a comprehensive method of land use impact and productivity
studies. The Comparative Performance Analysis (CPA) is introduced as a new
method for land use impact and yield gap studies, the yield gap being the
difference between the average farm yield and its potential. Three case studies
in Thailand and Kenya demonstrate the applicability of the CPA.
Price: EUR 13.61.
Orders to:
Mrs. J. Bunk, ITC, P.O. Box 6, 7500 AA Enschede, Netherlands. Fax:
+31-53-4874400. E-mail: bunk@itc.nl. Homepage:
www.itc.nl.
Plant
Nutrient Management in Hawaii’s Soils. Approaches for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture. J.A.
Silva and R.S. Uchida, editors. College of Tropical Agriculture & Human
Resources, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2000, 158 p. ISBN 1-929235-08-8.
Softcover.
Agriculture
in the Hawaiian Islands has a history that is somewhat unique, but it has also
strong similarities to agriculture elsewhere in the Pacific, and in many other
(sub) tropical locations as well. The islands contain 11 of the 12 soil orders
of the USDA Soil Taxonomy, and a variation in temperature from warm subtropical
lowlands to temperate conditions at the highest elevations. These varied soil
and climate conditions complicate methodological approaches to agriculture.
This book presents information on how soils provide nutrients to plants and how
soils can be managed to improve their nutritional status for plant growth. The
book is intended to help growers and extension personnel understand how soil
and plant tissue analyses are interpreted to diagnose plant nutrition problems
and how soil management recommendations are developed to prevent or correct
those problems. Although the details discussed are about soils and crops found
in the Hawaiian Islands, the general information on soil conditions and
nutrient management are applicable in many other regions of the world, where
plants, soils and climate are similar to those of Hawaii.
Price: USD 14.00, plus handling and
shipping charges.
Orders to:
University of Hawaii, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, 3050
Maile Way, Gilmore Hall 11, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822. Fax: +1-808-956-5966.
E-mail: ctahrpub@hawaii.edu. Homepage:
www2.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/forsale.
Soil
Sampling. Technical Engineering and Design Guides as adapted from the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, no.
30. American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000, 224 p. ISBN 0-7844-0375-9.
Softcover.
To provide accurate knowledge of the subsurface
conditions, as well as the physical and engineering properties of foundation
materials, soil sampling operations are routinely conducted to determine those
conditions that affect the safety, cost-effectiveness, and design of a proposed
engineering project. This manual presents a summary of commonly accepted soil
sampling practices and procedures to assist geotechnical personnel performing
actual field studies. It provides both technical guidance for conducting soil
sampling operations, and the best methods for handling and storage of samples
obtained in support of the investigations. The principles, equipment,
procedures, and limitations for obtaining, handling, and preserving soil
samples are discussed. Since the highest quality samples are often obtained at
the least cost by using a variety of equipment and techniques, this manual
surveys the different devices and techniques that have been developed for
drilling and sampling geotechnical materials ranging from soil to rocks. The manual
further suggests the various types of sampling devices best suited to obtain
samples of various soil types encountered during geotechnical investigations.
Of special interest are the parts about the equipment and procedures for
undisturbed and disturbed soil sampling in borings; sampling frozen soils;
underwater sampling of soils; handling and storage of samples and sampling
records; and backfilling boreholes and excavations.
Price: GBP 66.00; USD 90.00.
Orders to:
In Europe: see below for address of the American Technical Publishers, UK. In
the USA: American Society for Civil Engineers, P.O. Box 79404, Baltimore, MD
21279-0404, USA. Fax: +1-703-295-6211. E-mail: marketing@asce.org. Homepage: www.asce.org.
Pesticides, Pollutants, Fertilizers and Trees: their role in
forests and amenity woodlands. Forestry Series, E.
Harris, editor.
J.R. Aldhous. Research Studies Press, Baldock, 2000, viii + 588 p. ISBN
0-86380-199-4. Hardcover.
The objective of the Forestry Series is to make available
specialist texts in developing areas of science and technology tailored to
particular but limited markets. The present book in this series is a
comprehensive account of the state of knowledge of the use of chemicals in
forestry and the many issues associated with this. Though primarily concerned
with the situation in Britain, both the facts presented and the issues
discussed are relevant throughout the world and are of interest to foresters,
land managers and tree growers everywhere. To meet wider needs, scientific
facts and concepts are expressed as far as possible in terms understandable to
the lay reader. The first part of the book starts with ethical issues before
going on to laying out the chemical and legal frameworks and the safety system,
summarizing these in a chapter in integrated forest protection. In the core of
the book, pests of all forms, nutrients and fertilizers are discussed in a way
that leaves little of these complex issues untouched, before going on to a
comprehensive account of the present knowledge of pollutants and forest health.
In the final chapter, the author returns to ethical issues and emphasis that if
our woodlands and forests, as well as the ecosystems surrounding them, are to
be sustainable the opportunities provided today by technological advances must
be handled carefully, responsibly and with understanding. The text is supported
by over 2000 references.
Price: GBP 47.50.
Orders to:
In Europe: American Technical Publishers, 27-29 Knowl Piece, Wilbury Way,
Hitchin, Herts SG4 0SX, UK. Fax: +44-1462-433678. E-mail: atp@ameritech.co.uk. Homepage: www.ameritech.co.uk. In North America:
Soil Management and Conservation for Small Farmers. Strategies
and methods of introduction, technologies and equipment. FAO Soil Bulletin 77. V.H. de
Freitas. FAO, Rome, 2000, 66 p. ISBN 92-5-104499-6. ISSN 0253-2050. Softcover.
In many places in the world, efforts are underway to
improve the living and working conditions of farming communities. It is
becoming clear that the active interest and initiative of the farmers is
crucial for the success of such efforts. The present report is intended for
development practitioners, extensionists and leaders or pioneers in farming
communities, to inform them about the experiences and initiatives of farmers
with conservation agriculture in Santa Catarina State, Brazil. On the basis of
several local initiatives, inventions and developments, there have been
widespread improvements in soil management in various parts of the state,
resulting in lower costs and improved returns, combined with conservation and
improvement of the soil resources. While these developments cannot be simply
applied elsewhere, the methods and strategies may well inspire others to adapt
and modify them for the application in their own environments.
Price: USD 16.00.
Orders to: National sales agents of FAO
publications. Or: Sales and Marketing Group, Information Division, FAO, Viale
delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy. Fax: +39-6-5705-3360. E-mail: publications-sales@fao.org.
Homepage: www.fao.org.
Note: the prices given are without
mailing costs. Prices may vary per country.
The European Soil Information System. World Soil Resources
Reports 91.
FAO, Rome, 2000, vii + 150 p. ISBN 92-5-104454-6. ISSN 0532-0488. Softcover.
This publication contains the proceedings of a Technical
Consultation, held in Rome, 2-3 September 1999. The consultation, convened to
consider the issues related to soil information systems in Europe, was
organized by FAO and the European Commission. The participants were experts in
the field of soil information and they made brief statements on the status of
soil information in their respective countries. More detailed country reports
are included in this publication. Important items discussed were the
harmonization of the concepts underlying mapping scales, procedures and
classification, and interpretation and the issues related to data ownership and
availability of the products. The purpose of the meeting was not merely to
promote the establishment of a European Soil Information System, permitting
easy inter-European exchange of data and experience, but also to facilitate its
practical use to solve problems both national and continental, and encourage
the exchange of experience with such activities. An important by-product would
be the example to other countries, particularly those in the developing world,
on how well utilized soil information can help to solve national and global
problems in a rational and cost-effective manner. Besides the country reports,
the publication contains the texts of the two keynote papers, the conclusions
reached at the meeting and the recommendations.
Orders to: National sales agents of FAO publications.
Or: Sales and Marketing Group, Information Division, FAO, Viale delle Terme di
Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy. Fax: +39-6-5705-3360. E-mail: publications-sales@fao.org.
Homepage: www.fao.org.
Note: the prices given are without
mailing costs. Prices may vary per country.
Carbon Sequestration Options under the Clean Development
Mechanisms to
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is one of several
mechanisms created in Kyoto Protocol (KP) that enables Parties to cooperate
with each other to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. An important issue is
carbon sequestration – retaining in the geosphere the carbon that would
otherwise escape into the atmosphere. Carbon sequestration can occur in several
sites: biomass, forests, wetlands, geologic formations and soils, among others.
This publication contains the result of a study on the origin and background of
the carbon sequestration options and the CDM. It documents the outcome of
several proceedings of meetings on this subject. The publication examines the
various initiatives that have been taken, including that of the Global
Environment Facility (GEF) and the World Bank to facilitate the funding of land
degradation projects under GEF. It also includes a review on the ongoing
programme of collaboration between the International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD) and FAO on carbon sequestration and indicates how it would
fit within the framework of the existing international environmental treaties,
as well as the GEF and World Bank initiative.
Orders to: National sales agents of FAO
publications. Or: Sales and Marketing Group, Information Division, FAO, Viale
delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy. Fax: +39-6-5705-3360. E-mail: publications-sales@fao.org.
Homepage: www.fao.org.
Note: the prices given are without
mailing costs. Prices may vary per country.
Land Information Systems in
This report forms the proceedings of a Regional Workshop
held in Quezon City from 25 to 27 January 2000. The purpose of the meeting was
to promote land resources information systems and their application in the
assessment, mapping and monitoring of land in relation to sustainable
agricultural development and food security in Asian countries. Ten Asian
countries were represented, who contributed experiences from their countries
and prepared recommendations for future collaboration in the region, including
exchange of data, information and experiences. This includes the preparation of
national and regional reports on the state of the land, water and plant
nutrient resources in Asia.
Orders to: National sales agents of FAO
publications. Or: Sales and Marketing Group, Information Division, FAO, Viale
delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy. Fax: +39-6-5705-3360. E-mail: publications-sales@fao.org.
Homepage: www.fao.org.
Note: the prices given are without
mailing costs. Prices may vary per country.
The Australian Soil Classification - An Interactive Key, version 1.0. D.W. Jacquier, N.J.
McKenzie, K.L. Brown, R.F. Isbell and T.A. Paine. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 2000,
15 p and CD-ROM.
With this CD-ROM as a reference tool Australian soil
profiles can be classified in the Australian soil classification. This powerful
electronic system enables soil classes to be identified even when field and
laboratory data are incomplete, and will allow for uncertainties and mistakes.
It includes extensive notes and colour illustrations and photographs. The
package of booklet and CD comes with a tutorial, which takes one step-by-step
through the process of allocating a soil profile with this system. The CD also
contains an abridged and updated version of the Australian soil classification
system, a glossary and extensive references. Also for persons outside
Australia, this is an excellent introduction to the various soils of Australia,
and may be used as a blueprint for other soil survey organizations.
Price: AUD 59.95.
Orders to:
see below.
Australian Soil, Poster 70x98 cm. Produced by K. Brown, N.
McKenzie, R. Isbell and D. Jacquier. CSIRO, ACLEP and Natural Heritage Trust.
Australia has a great variety of soils. Most are ancient,
strongly weathered and infertile. Others are younger and more fertile. The
soils shown on this nicely designed and produced poster shows typical examples
of the 14 Orders distinguished in the Australian Soil Classification. The
poster has 47 photographs of soil profiles, size about 4x8 cm, and some
important characteristics at the Order level. The main occurrences of the
Orders are also shown. This is very instructive information for teachers about
the importance of soils!
Price: AUD 11.00, plus postage of AUD
9.00 for Australia and New Zealand, plus AUD 35.00 for other countries.
Orders to:
CSIRO Publishing, P.O. Box 1139, Collingwood, Victoria 3066, Australia. Fax:
+61-3-9662-7555. E-mail: sales@publish.csiro.au.
Homepage: www.publish.csiro.au.
Agroecological Aspects of Agricultural Research in
This fourth volume of the author’s collected works brings
together selected papers describing the relationships between environmental
factors and Bangladesh’s unique agricultural systems. Part I provides
background information on the physical environment and includes a chapter
describing research needs in the country’s drought-prone environments. Part II
comprises chapters describing how farmers in different parts of the country
have adapted, and are still adapting, their cropping practices to the
micro-environments of their small fragmented holdings. Part III deals with
various issues of soil management which need research attention. Part IV
describes environmental factors needing to be considered in siting and
monitoring agricultural trials and demonstrations, and the methods used on
three field studies. In Part V, the author reviews his experience of
agricultural research and development in the country, emphasizing the need for
research scientists and extension officials to become more deeply aware of the
environmental factors influencing cropping systems, farmers’ practices and
agricultural development possibilities in Bangladesh.
Price: Tk. 750.00.
Orders to:
The University Press, P.O. Box 2611, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh. Fax: +88-2-956443.
E-mail: upl@biib.net. Homepage: www.uplbooks.com.
Leitfaden zur Berücksichtigung von Bodeninformationen im Rahmen der
Agrarstrukturplanung in Niedersachsen – Nutzung der Daten des Niedersächsischen
Bodeninformationssystems NIBIS – Handlungsanleitung/Empfehlungen,
herausgegeben von Klaus Erdmann & Udo Müller im
Rahmen der Serie: Arbeitshefte Boden des Niedersächsischen Landesamts für
Bodenforschung, Heft 2000/3, 62 S., 3 Abb., 18 Tab., Hannover 2000;
Der Leitfaden beschreibt zunächst die Grundlagen und
Anwendungsbereiche sowie die Ziele um anschließend die Bewertung von
Bodenfunktionen sowie einen Anforderungskatalog zur Berücksichtigung von
Bodeninformationen bei Agrarstrukturplanungen zu erläutern. Dazu kommen
Informationsgrundlagen und Arbeitshilfen, die eine Durchführung des
vorgeschlagenen Ansatzes unterstützen sowie ein Literaturverzeichnis. Die
Broschüre kann allen, die sich mit Agrarstrukturplanung beschäftigen zur
Lektüre empfohlen werden, da die hier dargestellten Methoden auch über das Land
Niedersachsen hinaus mit Erfolg eingesetzt werden können.
Zu beziehen bei: E. Schweizerbart'sche
Verlagsbuchhandlung, Johannesstraße
Preis: 6,39 Euro
Bodenschutz in Raumordnung und Landschaftsplanung, herausgegeben von U. Müller, I. Dahlmann, E. Bierhals, B.
Vespermann und Ch. Wittenbacher im Rahmen der Serie: Arbeitshefte Boden,
herausgegeben vom Niedersächsischen Landesamt für Bodenforschung, Heft 2000/4,
Hannover 2000.
Die Publikation beschreibt nach einer Einleitung und
Zielsetzung den Bodenschutz in Raumordnung und Landschaftsrahmenplanung sowie
als Aufgabe der Landschaftsrahmen - sowie der Regional- und Landesplanung.
Hierzu werden Datengrundlagen zur Integration des Bodenschutzes in die Planung
am Beispiel des Niedersächsischen Bodeninformationssystems dargestellt und
Auswertungsmethoden beschrieben. Ein Ausblick, sowie ein Literatur- und ein
Abkürzungsverzeichnis runden die Publikation ab, die allen, die sich mit
Raumordnung und Landschaftsplanung beschäftigen zur Lektüre sehr empfohlen
werden kann, zumal diese Broschüre auch über Niedersachsen hinaus viele neue
Anregungen enthält.
Zu beziehen über: E. Schweizerbart'sche
Verlagsbuchhandlung, Johannesstraße
Preis: 8,81 Euro
Bereitstellung von Bodendaten
für die Bauleitplanung, von Jürgen Schneider, Sabine Kunzmann
u. Florian Raecke, unter Mitarbeit von Frank Lehmberg u. Frank E. Pantel,
herausgegeben in der Reihe: Arbeitshefte Boden des Niedersächsischen Landesamts
für Bodenforschung, Heft 2000/2, 48 S., 4 Tab., 14 Abb., Hannover 2000.
Nach einer Einleitung werden Raumplanung sowie rechtliche
Rahmenbedingungen für den Bodenschutz in der Bauleitplanung, die Umsetzung der
rechtlichen Vorgaben sowie die Umsetzung des gesamten Ansatzes am Beispiel der
Ergebnisse aus einem Pilotprojekt (Stadt Achim) dargestellt. Die Publikation
enthält eine Zusammenfassung, ein Literaturverzeichnis sowie ein Sachregister
im Anhang. Sie kann allen die sich mit Fragen der Bewertung von Böden im Rahmen
der Bauleitplanung befassen, zur Lektüre sehr empfohlen werden.
Zu beziehen bei: E. Schweizerbart'sche
Verlagsbuchhandlung, (Nägele u. Obermiller) Johannesstr.
Preis: 8,81 Euro
Methodendokumentation Bodenkunde, 2. Auflage –
Auswertungsmethoden zur Beurteilung der Empfindlichkeit und Belastbarkeit von
Böden. 232 Seiten, 26 Abb., 112 Tabellen,
herausgegeben von Ad-hoc-AG Boden, Koordination: Volker Hennings, Bundesanstalt
für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, 2000.
Vorliegende
Publikation im Rahmen des Geologischen Jahrbuchs, Sonderhefte, SG1, ist ein wesentlicher
Beitrag zur Beurteilung der Empfindlichkeit und Belastbarkeit von Böden,
insbesondere bezüglich potentieller Verdichtung, Filtervermögen für
Schwermetalle, potentielle und aktuelle Erosionsgefährdung durch Wasser,
Grundwasserneubildung über Sickerwasserraten aus dem Boden,
Nitratrückhaltevermögen, ackerbauliches Ertragspotential, potentielle
Erosionsgefährdung durch Wind sowie potentielle Versauerungsgefährdung von
Waldböden. Hierzu werden Kennwerte zur Einschätzung der jeweiligen Parameter dargestellt
und erläutert, wodurch für den Nutzer erhebliche Vorteile im schnellen Erkennen
und Bewerten von Problemen und Lösungsmöglichkeiten gegeben sind. Die
vorliegende Methodendokumentation ist daher hervorragend geeignet, denjenigen,
die sich mit der Raumplanung und Bodennutzungsplanung im weitesten Sinne
befassen, bei der Beurteilung der Empfindlichkeit und Belastbarkeit von Böden
eine schnelle Hilfestellung zu vermitteln.
Zu
beziehen bei: Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Johannesstr.
Mineral Fertilizer Use and the Environment.
K.F. Isherwood. International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA), and UNEP,
2000, 51 p. ISBN 2-9506299-3-8.
This
document presents a view of the benefits of using mineral fertilizers and the
environmental risks involved. It is not a scientific document, but it aims to
be technically correct. The review presents the evidence supporting the view
that the use of mineral fertilizer is a necessary condition for achieving an
increased food production on land that is already in use, and avoid
encroachment on land that is only marginally suitable for cultivation. This
publication stresses the importance of using mineral fertilizers efficiently.
Inefficient use not only increases their negative environmental impact
unnecessarily, but also represents a large waste of natural resources and a
substantial economic loss. There is scope for improved products, but the
greatest medium-term gain could be had from improving the way in which
currently available fertilizers are used.
Requests to:
IFA, 28 rue Marbeuf, F-75008, Paris, France. Fax: +33-153-930545. E-mail: ifa@fertilizer.org.
Homepage: www.fertilizer.org.
Mineral Fertilizer Distribution and the Environment. K.F.
Isherwood. International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA), and UNEP, 2000,
106 p. ISBN 2-9506299-4-6.
This
publication is the third in the IFA-UNEP series of Mineral Fertilizers and the
Environment. The first concerned Fertilizer Production and the Environment
(1988), the second is mentioned above, and this publication completes the chain
from factory to farm dealing with the distribution sector. The relevance of
fertilizer production and fertilizer use to the environment are clear, this is
not so evident in the distribution sector. Not only is the potential
environmental impact of fertilizer distribution often underestimated, but so
too it its economic impact. Under favourable circumstances the cost of
distributing and marketing fertilizers amounts to a third of the production
costs. Under unfavorable circumstances it can amount to three times the
production (or import) cost. Not only is the cost substantial, it is a cost,
which can be influenced by an increased efficiency in the distribution and
marketing. The purpose of this publication is to demonstrate relevant aspects
of mineral fertilizer distribution and to describe its complexities.
Both
publications can be downloaded from the homepage of IFA.
Requests to:
IFA, 28 rue Marbeuf, F-75008, Paris, France. Fax: +33-153-930545. E-mail: ifa@fertilizer.org.
Homepage: www.fertilizer.org.
Reclaimed Land – Erosion Control, Soils and Ecology.
M.J. Haigh, editor. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam and Brookfield, 2000, xiv + 385 p.
ISBN 90-5410-793-6. Hardbound.
This book
is the first in a series that will aim to publicize work being done to restore
lands that have been damaged by human actions and to manage lands in ways that
minimize the damages done by human actions. Each volume will explore a
particular land management problem from the perspective of the applied
scientist and progressive practitioner. The level will lie between the research
literature and the advanced textbooks. The present first volume in the series
discusses the problems of sustaining the quality of land that has already been
reclaimed through the decades that follow the reclamation process. Land
degradation may not, normally, be a huge problem for lands that are returned
for high investment uses, but it is commonly a major problem for lands that are
reclaimed for uses that have a low economic rent, for lands that are composed
of unstable, acid or toxic spoils, and for lands returned as steeper slopes.
This book reviews the applied research and practical experience that is
available, internationally, for those striving to increase durability and
self-sustainability of reclaimed lands.
Price: EUR 85.00, USD 88.00, GBP 56.00.
Orders to:
see below. (no sales rights in
Ecological Risk Evaluation of Polluted Soils.
J.L. Rivière. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam and Brookfield, 2000, xii + 223 p. ISBN
90-5410-796-0. Hardcover.
Ecological
risk evaluation arose from the need to forecast the effects of pollution and to
ensure a scientific basis for decisions in matters of environmental management.
This pursuit proved to be particularly complex, because of its
interdisciplinary nature, as well as the relatively poor understanding we have
of natural ecosystems and their functioning. This book, originally published in
French (Évaluation du risque écologique des sols pollués, Technique &
Documentation, Paris, 1998), is an introduction in which the reader will find
the fundamental principles, as they are conceived at present, and a range of
workable methods in the case of polluted soils. A set of definitions is proposed
before the author develops different aspects of the evolution of pollutants in
the soil and their toxicity. It then leads the reader to risk formulation,
which is essential in establishing a procedure that includes economic, social
and political considerations.
Price: EUR 55.00, USD 58.50, and GBP 37.00. (no
sales rights in India).
Orders to:
A.A. Balkema, P.O. Box 1675, NL-3000 BR Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Fax:
+31-10-4135947. E-mail: sales@balkema.nl. Homepage: www.balkema.nl. In USA
and Canada: A.A. Balkema Publishers, Old Post Road, Brookfield, VT 05036-9704,
USA. Fax: +1-802-276-3837. E-mail: info@ashgate.com.
Solos do Brasil. Gênese,
Morfologia, Classificação, Levantamento. Cd-Rom com orientações pràticas
de campo. Hélio do Prado. Published by the author, Piracicaba, 2000, 182 p.
ISBN 85-901330-1-X.
This nicely
produced book with a number of colour photos with soil profiles, starts with a description
of the soil forming factors in Brazil, and the resulting morphological
characteristics. Use is made of the new Brazilian soil classification system
(EMBRAPA-CNPS, 1999), and the main part of the book is concerned with a
description of the 14 orders established in the system. An interesting chapter
discusses the classification of six soil profiles, based on the soil
description and analytical data. The CD-ROM, which is not available separately
from the book, contains among others information about the old and new
Brazilian soil classification systems, and instructive voice video clips about
field activities. The CD-ROM can be used for an introduction about the
landscapes and soils of Brazil.
Price: USD 43.00, plus mailing charges.
Orders to:
Dr. H. do Prado, Rua Floriano Peixoto, 1630, apt. 81, 13417-050 Piracicaba-SP,
Brazil. E-mail: heprado@zaz.com.br.
Guide des analyses en pédologie. Choix – expression – présentation – interprétation. 2ème édition revue et augmentée.
D. Baize. Collection Techniques et pratiques. INRA, Paris, 2000, 257 p. ISBN 2-7380-0892-5. ISSN
1150-3912. Broché.
L’ambition de cet ouvrage est de vous aider à bien choisir
vos analyses, à maîtriser les modes d’éxpression des résultats, à les
interpréter et bien les présenter. Conçu comme un guide pratique, ce
n’est ni un cours de pédologie générale, ni un traité d’agronomie. Il n’a pas pour objet des ”analyses
de terre”, ni l’établissement de normes d’interprétation. Il traite des
analyses de sols les plus courantes en pédologie, c’est-à-dire celles qui sont
réalisées, suite au creusement de fosses ou tranchées, sur les différents
horizons des sols et des couvertures pédologiques que l’on peut rencontrer en
Europe occidentale. Complément naturel du ”Guide pour la description des sols”
(D. Baize et B. Jabiol, INRA, 1995), il s’adresse à tous ceux, pédologues,
forestiers, agronomes, techniciens agricoles, ingénieurs en environnement,
étudiants, enseignants…qui ont à caractériser ou qui veulent étudier ce que
l’on appelle couramment ”les sols”. Cet ouvrage est une nouvelle édition du
livre paru en 1988.
Prix: FRF 180 et frais de port.
Commandes
à: INRA Éditions, RD 10, F-78026 Versailles Cedex, France. Fax:
+33-1-30-833449. E-mail: dessauva@versailles.inra.fr. Catalogue et
commande en ligne: www.inra.fr/Editions.
Agricultural Research Priority Setting. Information investments
for the improved use of research resources. B. Mills,
editor. International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR), The
Hague and Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), Nairobi, 1998,viii +
151 p. ISBN 92-9118-040-8. Softcover. With CD-ROM.
Managers
face a number of practical issues in designing procedures for agricultural
research priority setting: ”Who will set priorities?”, ”What information will
they use?”,”What skills or tools do they need?” Similarly, socioeconomists and
others who implement priority-setting processes need concrete advice on how to
undertake each step. This publication addresses issues of process design and
implementation. It leads readers through the major steps and questions involved
in setting program-level priorities in agricultural research organizations.
Examples from the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) illustrate
applications of the methods and issues discussed. Exercises, some using the
spreadsheets included on the enclosed computer diskette, provide the reader
with hands-on experience in doing some of the calculations.
Orders to:
ISNAR, P.O. Box 93375, 2509 AJ The Hague, The Netherlands. Fax: +31-70-3819677.
E-mail: isnar@cgiar.org.
Homepage: www.cgiar.org/isnar.
Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Land Use and Water
Management.
2nd Inter-Regional Conference on Environment-Water, September
1999, Lausanne. Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, Lausanne,
2000. Booklet with CD-ROM.
The
contributions to this conference provide insight into recent developments in
modelling hydrological processes and planning the use of natural resources
under the constraints of economic, social and environmental sustainability.
Innovative management issues, practices and tools are also proposed and
analyzed, mainly under the perspective of compatible economic and social aims
with the environmental ones. The contributions are arranged into four sections:
(1) new trends in modeling in hydrology, and water and land use planning and
management; (2) new approaches in measuring and handling data, including
related mathematical and computer techniques; (3) new tools for evaluation,
visualization and decision making, with particular attention to spatially
distributed data and decision support systems; and (4) new management policies
and practices, mainly concerning agricultural water and soil use, and water
quality management. Although significant advances are shown, gaps in our
knowledge are revealed as well. Future research, based on long-term
observations on soil and water processes, is required to effectively validate
present issues, to generate new ones, and to contribute to better-resolved
scale problems. Also, new issues are required to transfer innovation into
practice, to promote better institutional arrangements facilitating new
policies, and for monitoring the state off the environment and the practices
dealing with natural resources. The booklet presents the general contents and
abstracts of all contributions, the full texts are provided on the CD-ROM.
Price: In Switzerland CHF 120.00, France: FRF
536.00, elsewhere EUR 77.50.
Orders to:
PPUR, EPFL-Centre midi, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Fax: +41-21-6934027.
E-mail: ppur@epfl.ch.
Homepage: www.ppur.org.
Ecology and Management of
This is a
greatly revised edition of Properties and Management of Forest Soils, by W.L.
Pritchett and R.F. Fischer, published in 1987. Forests can be viewed from a
range of perspectives, all of which are based on soils. Forest productivity is
a story that centers on photosynthesis and plant growth, but plant biochemistry
is supported by nutrient cycles that are essentially a soils story. The
diversity of plant species in forests is largely a soils story as well; across
landscapes, the patterns in vegetation are typically modified by patterns in
soils. More than 99 percent of the diversity of life in forest ecosystems
resides in soils, where amazingly small, numerous, and important organisms make
the rest of the ecosystem (such as tree and mammals) possible. In this book the
authors try to convey the key features of soil ecology that are critical to
successful management. Compared to the second edition, the authors have taken a
worldwide approach, instead of a North American approach. Case studies have a
greater breadth and depth. The book is structured in 16 chapters. After the
first chapters on forest soils and vegetation development, the soils of the
major forest biomes, physics, (biogeo)chemistry and biology of forest soils are
treated. Soil organic matter and root systems and growth are covered, followed
by a chapter on the influence of forest fires on soils. Much attention is given
to nutrient management: nutrient limitations and fertilization and biological
nitrogen fixation. The book closes with chapters on forest soil management on a
variety of soils, and on long-term soil productivity. The book is illustrated
with many figures.
Price: GBP 63.95.
Orders to:
John Wiley & Sons, Baffins Lane, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1UD, England.
E-mail: cs.books@wiley.co.uk.
Or: John Wiley & Sons, 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158-0012, USA.
Homepages: www.wiley.co.uk
and www.wiley.com
The Podzolization Process. Special
issue of Geoderma, vol. 94, nos. 2-4, February 2000, p. v + 91-353. U.S. Lundström,
N. van Breemen and D.C. Bain, editors. Elsevier.
Podzolization
is the most common soil forming process in coniferous forests in northern
Europe and America. Podzols have been studied intensively since the end of the
last century and several theories have been proposed to explain their often
visually dramatic soil profiles. However, in spite of much prior research, the
editors felt that a number of fundamental aspects of podzolization were still
poorly understood, and a joint project was started by researchers from Sweden,
Finland, Norway, The Netherlands and Great Britain. At three sites with
podzolic soils unaffected by anthropogenic deposition in the north of Sweden
and in central Finland, geochemical, mineralogical, micromorphological, microbiological,
hydrochemical, and hydrological investigations were performed. In an ongoing
project, the dynamics of podzolization in an area affected by acid atmospheric
deposition are being studied. This special issue of Geoderma contains the
literature summary review of the podzolization process, an article describing
the experimental design of the project, 11 papers on the results from the
project, and an article summarizing the results and conclusions from the whole
project. Several new findings have been made relating to the podzolization
process, which may have impact on knowledge used for evaluating forest
sustainability and environmental problems, and some results raise a number of
questions for further research.
Orders to:
Elsevier Science, P.O. Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Fax:
+31-20-4853432. E-mail: nlinfo@elsevier.nl. Or: Elsevier Science, P.O. Box
945, New York, NY 10159-0945, USA. Fax: +1-212-633-3680. Email: usinfo@elsevier.com.
Homepages: www.elsevier.nl;
or: www.elsevier.com.
Solute Movement in the Rhizosphere.
P.B. Tinker and P.H. Nye. Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2000,
xix + 444 p. ISBN 0-19-512492-8. Hardback.
In this book,
the authors describe in detail how plant nutrients and other solutes move in
the soil in response to leaching and plant uptake. The plants considered may
grow in isolation, or as a crop, a mixture of crops, or a natural community.
The way their roots interact with the soil is not so fully understood as the
way their shoots respond to the atmosphere, because the root-soil system is
both complex and too inaccessible to study easily. At present, the world’s
developed countries have a vast experience of the effects of the nutrient
elements on important crops, based on repeated field trials. But experience is
confined to existing or past conditions, and new varieties, cultural practices,
and environmental conditions bring with them the need to reassess former
conclusions. Often, resources do not match the range of crops or vegetation, or
the diversity of soil, climate, and treatment. In these circumstances, advice
on practice can best be given by combining fundamental insight with the
information given by field trials. These phenomena are dynamic: soil solutes
move, and plants grow; yet, the intimate connection between the two has only
recently been understood. Therefore, an expanded account of solute transport
processes in the rhizosphere is timely. Until relatively recently, it has been
difficult to link all the separate steps involved in the movement of solutes
through the soil and their uptake by extending roots, because the mathematics
was too difficult or tedious; and hence simplifications had to be made.
Computers have removed these obstacles, and provide the essential tool in
modelling the various pieces of the system that comprises growing roots in
soil. Most of the mechanisms described in the book have been worked out for the
major nutrient elements, but they are equally relevant, with modification, to
other solutes. Most models of natural ecosystems or crop production are
coarse-grained, the object being to establish a framework and fill in the
details later. The approach presented in this book is different in that the
authors analyse the working of small-scale, often simplified, systems first,
before combining them in a more complicated one. The general outlines of the
first chapters are retained in this edition, but the text has been updated and
expanded. The other chapters contain much new material on processes that affect
ion fluxes into and near roots, followed by chapters on the whole plant, and
field vegetation. The book is well illustrated with many figures. It has a
useful listing of over 1100 references.
Price: USD 95.00 or GBP 70.00.
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Oxford University Press, Order Department, 2001 Evans Road, Cary, NC 27513,
USA. Fax: +1-919-677-1303. Homepage: www.oup-usa.org. Or:
Oxford University Press Bookshop, 116 Highstreet, Oxford OX1 4BZ, England. Fax:
+44-1865-241701. E-mail: bookshop@oup.co.uk. Homepage:
www.oup.uk.
Soil Biogeochemistry, volume
10. Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment. J.-M. Bollag and G. Stotzky,
editors. Marcel Dekker, New York and Basel, 2000, xi + 519 p. ISBN
0-8247-8834-6. Hardbound.
A major
goal of this series is to provide up-to-date reviews on the factors that
influence a spectrum of biological, biogeochemical, edaphic, and ecological
phenomena in soil, most of which have a biochemical basis. From a practical
viewpoint, as well as from a vintage point of basic science, there is a need to
characterize and explore further soil biochemical factors. An increased
knowledge of soil biochemistry will also contribute to improving the quality of
soil and to increasing food production. The topics discussed in this volume
range from anaerobic microbiology in rice fields, to anaerobic degradation of
specific pesticides, to the use of fungi in environmental remediation, to the
genetic ecology of Bradyrhizobium; from new extraction techniques for humic
materials and bound residues, to sorption of enzymes on surfaces and its
effects on enzyme activity. There is always special interest in the question of
the adequacy of the plate and other methods for characterizing microorganisms
in soil, and this is discussed in several chapters. As an extension of
classical soil biochemistry, a chapter relates soil biology and biochemistry to
archaeology.
Orders to:
Marcel Dekker, 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA. Fax:
+1-212-685-4540. Homepage: www.dekker.com.
Distribution in Eastern Hemisphere: Marcel Dekker, Postfach 812, CH-4001 Basel,
Switzerland. Fax: +41-61-2618896.
Heavy Metals: A Problem Solved? Methods and Models to Evaluate
Policy Strategies for Heavy Metals.
Environment & Policy, volume 22. E. van der Voet, J.B. Guinée and H.A. Udo
de Haes, editors. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, 2000, ix + 242
p. ISBN 0-7923-6192-X. Hardback.
Heavy
metals and the environment is an well-investigated subject. Up to now,
publications focus on the environmental pathways and risks of metals. In the
book, a link has been established between the environmental risks and the
societal issues of these risks. Economic models, substance flow models and
environmental fate and risk assessment models have been integrated into one
framework of analysis which has been applied to understand the pathways of four
heavy metals (copper, zinc, lead and cadmium), from their entering the economy
until their final destination in the environment. The Netherlands has been
chosen as a case in point to study the long term impacts of the present metals
management regime, and to assess the effectiveness of certain policy
measures.
The
publication is the result of an interdisciplinary research programme, the
”Metals” Programme, in which ecologists, agricultural scientists, environmental
scientists and economists cooperated. The last part of the book is devoted to a
summary of the main results; the conclusions and the recommendations for
further research as well as for policies on heavy metals are formulated.
Orders to:
In North, Central and South America: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 101 Philip
Drive, Norwell, MA 02061, USA. E-mail: kluwer@wkap.com. In all other countries: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Fax:
+31-78-6546474. E-mail: services@wkap.nl. Homepage: www.wkap.nl.
Soil Conservation and Watershed Management in
In many
Asia-Pacific countries, watersheds have been observed to be badly affected by
soil erosion caused by, for example, indiscriminate agricultural activities and
environmental harmful farming practices. Given the critical nature of the
situation, it was necessary to address the institutional, technical and
socio-economical aspects of these problems, and seek practical and effective
solutions. A seminar was held to address these issues in the region, in all 12
countries, from Mongolia and China in the north, to Indonesia in the south, and
including Fiji, India and Sri Lanka. The publication is a compilation of the
report of the proceedings of the seminar and the papers presented. After four
resource papers, the twelve country contributions give a clear picture of the
sometimes serious conditions of the soils and encroaching degradation.
Price: USD 15.00, plus USD 5.00 for handling and
airmail postage.
Orders to:
The Director, Information and Public Relations, Asian Productivity
Organization, 1-2-10 Hirakawa-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0093, Japan. Fax:
+81-3-52263957. E-mail: ipr@apo-tokyo.com. Homepage: www.apo-tokyo.com.
Micronutrients: Their Behaviour in Soils and Plants. D.K. Das. Kalyani
Publishers, Ludhiana, India, 2000, 307 p., ISDN 81-7663-550-2. Soft cover.
The book deals
with essential micronutrients for plants (Fe, Mn, Cu, Zn, B, Mo, Cl), elements
indirectly associated with plant nutrition (Si, Co, Na, V), micronutrient
pollution and soil and plant tissue testing for micronutrients within nine
chapters. Special emphasis has been given to the discussion of the behaviour of
micronutrients in soils and plants, including their chemistry of
transformation, interaction with other nutrients and further parameters which
play a role in plant nutrition and crop responses. The book was basically
written for graduate and post-graduate students of agriculture, as well as for
researchers in the various fields of biological and environmental sciences,
with some basic knowledge in soil science, plant physiology and biochemistry.
Price: 125 Indian Rupies
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Kalyani Publishers,
Wege zum vorsorgenden Bodenschutz. Fachliche Grundlagen und
konzeptionelle Schritte für eine erweiterte Boden-Vorsorge, G.
Bachmann und H.W. Thoenes, (Hrsg.), Reihe: Bodenschutz und Altlasten, Band 8,
213 Seiten, 14,4x21 cm, kartoniert, 2000 – ISBN 3 503 05867 2. Vorliegende
Publikation basiert auf einem Gutachten des Wissenschaftlichen Beirates
Bodenschutz beim deutschen Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und
Reaktorsicherheit. Die Aufgabe dieses Beirates ist es, die Vielfalt und
Komplexität wissenschaftlicher Betrachtungen des Bodenschutzes interdisziplinär
zusammenzuführen. Vorliegende Broschüre behandelt die vielfältigen Aspekte des
vorsorgenden Bodenschutzes in Deutschland, mit dem Ziel, diese in Zukunft zu
erweitern. Hierbei werden Leitbilder, Leitideen und Grundregeln der Vorsorge
unterschieden. Die hieraus resultierenden Empfehlungen und Vorschläge sprechen
sowohl einzelne Handlungsfelder wie auch Instrumente und Verfahrensweisen des
Bodenschutzes an, die zur Koordinierung der vielfältigen Aktionsmöglichkeiten
erforderlich erscheinen.
Preis: DM 56/öS 409/SFr 50,50/Euro 28,63
Zu bestellen: Erich
Schmidt Verlag, Berlin, Bielefeld, München, Zweigniederlassung Bielefeld,
Viktoriastraße
Sustainable Development and Integrated Appraisal in a Developing
World. N. Lee and C. Kirkpatrick, editors. Edward
Elgar, Cheltenham and Northampton, 2000, xvi + 250 p. ISBN 1-84064-162-2.
Hardbound.
It is
widely recognized that sustainable development can only be achieved if
environmental, economic and social issues are combined in development plans,
policies and programmes. This book examines this integrated approach to the
development process, and analyses the theory and practice of integrating
assessment techniques and decision making. The editors begin by presenting a
comprehensive introduction to integrated appraisal in development strategies as
well as outlining issues, which are important for the future understanding and
practical application of integrated appraisal. A group of authors from a range
of disciplinary and country backgrounds then present alternative perspectives
and methods of an integrated approach to sustainable development, and apply
integrated appraisal to a variety of case studies from developing and
transitional countries.
Price: GBP 65.00.
Orders to:
Marston Book Services, P.O. Box 269, Abington, Oxon OX14 4YN, UK. Fax:
+44-1235-465555. E-mail: direct.order@marston.co.uk.
Homepage: www.e-elgar.co.uk.
Soil Microbiology. Second
edition. R.L. Tate III. John Wiley & Sons, New York, Chichester, 2000,
xxiii + 508 p. ISBN 0-471-31791-8. Hardbound.
This is an extensively
revised and updated new edition of the well-known textbook published six years
ago. It offers students a broad knowledge of the behavior and function of
microbes in soils – all the essentials they will need in order to address the
long-term stewardship of the earth’s soil resources. Designed for use as the
core text for microbiology courses in the soil science curriculum, it explores
the tremendous diversity of life found in soil ecosystems. With its amplified
focus on the reclamation of contaminated and damaged soils, greenhouse gas
production, and the sustainability of soil ecosystems, this book is suitable
for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, as well as a useful
reference for professionals in soil and environmental science. It features a
focus on new advances as well as environmental science aspects of soil
microbiology; new chapters on the biological diversity of soil ecosystems, soil
remediation, and soil systems management; and has a strong emphasis on research
in real-world settings as well as theoretical concerns.
Price: GBP 61.50.
Orders to: John Wiley & Sons, 1 Oldlands Way, Bognor
Regis, West Sussex PO22 9SA, UK. Fax: +44-1243-820250. E-mail: cs-books@wiley.co.uk.
Or: John Wiley & Sons, 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158-0012, USA.
Homepages: www.wiley.uk
and www.wiley.com.
Ethnopedology in a Worldwide Perspective: An Annotated
Bibliography. ITC Publication 77. N. Barrera-Bassols and J.A. Zinck. ITC, Enschede, 2000, 651 p. ISBN
90-6164-1772. Softcover.
This
publication is a compilation of more than 900 references, published until
mid-1999, on ethnopedology, focussing on the perception, knowledge and
management of soil and land resources among indigenous people and other local
rural populations. It is a valuable source document for anyone interested in
local development issues and perspectives, and in integrative approaches to
land resource management and land use planning. The book provides information
on 220 ethnic groups from more than 150 countries, living in fragile ecological
systems: tropical humid lowlands, arid and semi-arid lowlands, and the cold and
dry highlands. The book has five practical indexes, facilitating to find the
relevant references.
Orders to:
ITC, attention Mrs. M. Koelen, P.O. Box 6, 7500 AA Enschede, The Netherlands.
Fax: +31-53-4874399. E-mail: koelen@itc.nl.
Soil and Water Conservation Policies and Programs. Successes and
Failures. T.L. Napier, S.M. Napier and J. Tvrdon,
editors. Soil and Water Conservation Society, Ankeny and CRC Press, Boca Raton,
London, 2000, 656 p. ISBN 0-8493-0005-3. Hardbound.
Degradation
of land and water resources via soil erosion is a universal problem in all
geographic regions of this planet. While most land is subject to soil erosion
due to forces of wind and water, the greatest proportion of environmental
degradation due to displacement of soil is the result of human manipulation of
land resources to produce food and fiber for human populations. In
Price: USD 69.95 or GBP 43.99, plus handling and
postage.
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Europe, Middle East and Africa: CRC Press UK, Pocock House, 235 Southwark
Bridge Road, London SE1 6LY, UK. Fax: +44-1462-483011. E-mail: custservturpin@rsc.org.
Homepage: www.crcpress.com.
World Resources 2000-2001. People and Ecosystems. The Fraying
Web of Life. United Nations Development Programme,
United Nations Environment Programme, World Bank and World Resources Institute.
World Resources Institute, Washington, DC, 2000, ix + 389 p. ISBN
1-56973-443-7. Softcover. Also available on CD-ROM. The hardcover edition is
published by Elsevier Science.
The dawn of
the new millennium is an appropriate time to take stock of the condition of the
Earth’s ecosystems and to draw lessons from our global experience with managing
and protecting them. This edition of World Resources focuses on five critical
ecosystems that have been shaped by the interaction of physical environment,
biological conditions, and human interventions: croplands, forests, coastal
zones, freshwater systems and grasslands. These ecosystems produce a wide
variety of goods and services, some of which have not been recognized or valued
but all of which sustain human life. The first step to good management, the
report proposes, is to acknowledge the value of these goods and services and
the tradeoffs that we often make among them. The second step is to base
decisions on current information about the capacity of ecosystems to continue
to provide goods and services. This report provides bottom-line judgments based
on a survey of current evidence of each ecosystem on food and fiber production,
water quantity and quality, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and recreation.
The final step to good management advocated in this report is an ”ecosystem
approach” that explicitly recognizes the interaction and tradeoffs among these
goods and services, as well as the political and social context in which
environmental decisions are made. Through five case studies and many additional
examples, the report demonstrates that people in all parts of the world have
the capacity to improve the way they manage ecosystems.
The full
report in English is available online at www.wri.org/wr2000. Also published in Japanese, French and
Spanish.
Prices:
softcover edition: USD 27.00; CD-ROM: USD 100.00, plus mailing charges.
Orders
to (softcover): World Resources Institute Publications, P.O. Box 4852, Hampden
Station, Baltimore, MD 21211, USA. Fax: +1-410-516-6998. E-mail:
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Global Environmental Databases – Present Situation; Future
Directions. R.Tateishi and D. Hastings,
editors. International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS),
Working Group IV/6 (1996-2000). Geocarto, Hong Kong, 2000, xvi + 233 p. ISBN 962-8226-02-9. Softcover.
A global
environmental database is defined as a database containing data and information
of known accuracy regarding phenomena on and about the world’s surface. The
data and information resident in the database cover the entire surface of the
earth in a consistent manner. Although national and international organizations
have begun global environmental database projects and coordination efforts, the
paucity of these datasets is a sober fact reflecting the various difficulties
of generating and maintaining such important resource information. In 1996, the
ISPRS established the Working Group IV/6: Global Databases Supporting
Environmental Monitoring. Its aim was to survey existing global
databases/datasets and to observe their trend; to identify obstacles in global
datasets/databases and their usage; and to find solutions to remove these
obstacles. As part of this plan, the working group organized a workshop in
Honolulu, November 1999, to discuss the various aspects of global environmental
data. It was also decided to review the global datasets. The present book
consists of two parts. Part 1, Thematic Domains, deals with a reference
framework for global environmental data, topographic data, oceanographic data,
land cover data, soil data, biodiversity data, and hydrological data. Part 2,
Cross-cutting Issues, deals with common subjects among various environmental
parameters such as geometric registration and meta-data.
Price: USD 30.00.
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GeoCarto International Centre, G.P.O. Box 4122, Hong Kong. Fax: +852-2559-3419.
E-mail: au@geocarto.com. Homepage: www.geocarto.com.
Soil Erosion. Application of Physically Based Models. J.
Schmidt, editor. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2000, xviii + 318 p. ISBN
3-540-66764-4. ISSN 1431-6250. Hardcover.
Accelerated
degradation of soils and surface waters produce increasing problems in many
parts of the world. Within this context, the book addresses the application of
physically based models for soil erosion in order to present some essential
tools for improving land-use strategies and conservation measures. Over the
last 20 years, the need for more accurate assessments of soil losses and
sediment yields has led to the development of some highly complex,
process-based soil erosion models. In 14 papers, specialists from Europe, USA
and Brazil report on practical applications of these models and give insight
into the latest developments. This book will help to implement state-of-the-art
soil erosion prediction technologies within soil and water conservation
planning and assessment.
Price: DEM 198.00, GBP 68.50, USD 109.00.
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Mycorrhizal Biology. K.G.
Mukerji, B.P. Chamola and J. Singh, editors. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,
New York, Boston, 2000, xii + 336 p. ISBN 0-306-46294-X. Hardcover.
Sustainability
in agriculture, forestry, and range management requires balanced microbial
ecosystems. The association of plant roots with mycorrhizal fungi is a key
factor in the below ground network essential to ecosystems function; these
associations are known to benefit plants under conditions of nutritional and
water stress and pathogen challenge. Molecular and genetic tools are, and will
be used increasingly, to explore the structural and regulatory genes in both
fungus and plant and permit mycorrhiza formation. The symbiosis of host and
fungus creates an intimate link between plant roots and the soil, and plays a
pivotal role in the acquisition of mineral nutrients. The ability of the
association to enhance plant growth and development has stimulated research,
and the recent application of biochemical, genetic, and molecular approaches is
providing new insight into the symbiosis. Improved growth, health, and stress
resistance of mycorrhizal plants are widespread, particularly for plants
growing in nutrient limiting conditions. Increased resistance to plant
pathogens has been noted, this may be mediated by factors other than mineral
nutrition. The above subjects are being discussed in 18 papers, mostly written
by specialists from India.
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Upscaling and Downscaling Methods for Environmental Research.
Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences vol.
Environmental
studies typically involve the combination of dynamic models with data sources
at various spatial and temporal scales. Also, the scale of the model output is
rarely in tune with the scale at which decision-makers require answers or
implement environmental measures. Consequently, the question has been raised
how to obtain results at the appropriate scale. Models, usually developed at
the scale of a research project, have to be applied to larger areas
(extrapolation), with incomplete data coverage (interpolation) and to different
supports (upscaling and downscaling) to facilitate studies for decision-makers.
This book gives an overview of the various problems involved, and focuses on a
description of upscaling and downscaling methods that are known to exist.
Furthermore, this book is the first of its kind in that it contains a decision
support system that advises the practitioner on which upscaling or downscaling
method to use in the specific context.
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Environmental
Stress: Indication, Mitigation and Eco-conservation. M. Yunus, N. Singh and L.J. de
Kok, editors. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, 2000, xvii + 464
p. ISBN 0-7923-6410-4. Hardcover.
This book
has evolved from forty selected chapters invited for publication out of a total
of 190 presentations during the International Conference on Plants and
Environmental Pollution in 1996. The contributions are from authors from 14
countries. The volume elucidates the plant-pollutant relationship in a manner
that defines not only the drastic effects of pollutants on plants but
concomitantly highlights the hitherto less-focussed areas namely
phytoindication, phytoremediation and stress tolerant bioaesthetic development,
thus concentrating more on plant than the pollutant. The volume has been
structured under three sections: (1) environmental stress (15 papers), (2)
stress indication (15 papers), and (3) mitigation and eco-conservation (10
papers). The book would help understand the magnitude of environmental stress
in the coming years and may play a formative role in defining future research
and policy areas along with providing impetus to development of newer eco-technologies.
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Fractals in Soil Science. Developments in Soil Science 27.
Ya.A. Pachepsky, J.W. Crawford and W.J. Rawls, editors. Elsevier, Amsterdam,
Lausanne, 2000, vii + 295 p. ISBN 0-444-50530-X. Hardcover.
Fractal
models offer the soil scientists the possibility of relating soil properties at
different scales and quantifying the intrinsic heterogeneity of soils. The
application of fractal geometry to these problems is a recent development in
soil science, the first papers only appearing in the eighties. This book, a
reprint of Geoderma, volume 88/3-4, is intended to provide an up-to-date, balanced
account of the application of fractal models to soil science. Authors from a
broad background explore topics from geochemistry to microbiology, and from
scales of micrometres to the landscape. Limitations of the approach are
discussed as well as the level of success in the hope that opportunities for
future work will become clear. Challenges encountered in the measurement and
interpretation of fractal properties are discussed. The book includes a very
useful bibliography with some 350 entries.
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Developments in Quantitative Soil Resource Assessment
(Pedometrics ’98). Special Issue of Geoderma, volume
97, nos. 3-4, September 2000, pp. 293-
This
special issue of Geoderma contains papers presented at the IUSS Congress in
Montpellier. The papers arise from two meetings. The first one was a one-day
meeting on Recent Advances in Soil Geostatistics (8 papers), the other one was
entitled Advances in Soil Survey using Modern Tools (6 papers). New theoretical
procedures and equipment for the characterization of soil landscapes, soil
delineation, temporal and spatial soil variability analysis, and graphical
representation of this variability were discussed. Together, these two
meetings, through the papers given here, give a good representation of the
state-of-the-art in quantitative soil resource assessment at the end of the
twentieth century.
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Fire and Sustainable Agricultural and Forestry Development in
Eastern Indonesia and
Over the
past decade or so there has been growing recognition of the impacts, both
environmental and political, of biomass burning in the wet forests of Sumatra,
Kalimantan an Irian Jaya (Papua) in Indonesia. This has translated into
considerable research effort in these regions, particularly in the last few
years. In contrast, much less attention has been given to annual, mostly
prescribed burning practices and associated land management issues, across the
extensive savanna landscapes of the eastern Indonesian archipelago, the
Transfly region of Irian Jaya and Papua New Guinea, and northern Australia.
Scant documentation is available concerning the extent of burning in different
regions, traditional and contemporary practices, and impacts and benefits of
fire management in eastern Indonesian cultural settings. A Workshop was held in
Darwin from 13-15 April 1999 to discuss these issues, and the present
proceedings comprise 26 papers given at the Workshop and the summaries of the
discussion group sessions.
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Soil Physics. Agricultural and Environmental Applications.
H. Don Scott. Iowa State University Press, Ames, 2000, x + 421 p. ISBN
0-8138-2087-1. Hardcover.
This
textbook is concerned with the physical properties of soils and how they affect
other soil properties, the transport of water, heat, solutes, and oxygen in
soil, and soil water and its impact on plant growth and development. This book
will enable the student to understand how the soil, plant and engineering
sciences utilize knowledge of soil physical behavior and to develop the
mathematical and quantitative skills needed to solve applied problems in soil
science. Emphasis is placed on understanding how soil physical properties have
an impact on agriculture, natural resources, and the environment. To achieve
this goal, considerable use is made of elementary concepts of physics,
mathematics and statistics, which are needed to quantify amounts and rates of
processes in soil systems. In most cases, conservation laws and rate equations
are used to account for the spatial and temporal distributions of mass and
energy in soil systems. These are the basic underlying threads throughout the
book and should result in a greater appreciation and understanding of the
physical processes that influence soil behavior. Each chapter includes
definitions, essential terms and concepts, and an overview of the principles,
and practical importance of the topic. Many examples and problems, mostly
related to field situations are included.
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World Water Vision. Making Water Everybody’s Business.
W.J. Cosgrove and F.R. Rijsberman. Earthscan Publications, London, 2000, xxvii
+ 108 p. ISBN 1-85383-730-X. Softcover. Plus CD-ROM.
The world
is experiencing a water crisis. More than one billion people do not have access
to safe drinking water, and half of the world’s people do not have access to
adequate sanitation. Without change, many parts of the world will not have
enough water to produce food for growing populations-with enormous human and
political implications. Degraded ecosystems and lost biodiversity are already a
reality in many places, and may threaten the way of life of future generations.
The water crisis is a crisis of management. At its heart is the question of
whether water can be used more efficiently. The greater our productivity with
the same amount of water, the less the need for infrastructure development, the
less the competition for water, the greater the local food security, the more
water for agricultural, industrial, and household uses, and the better for the
environment. This publication shows that the water crisis need not deepen and
intensify. Alarming trends can be reversed and the use and development of water
resources made sustainable. Success will require an integrated approach to the
management of highly complex systems. This publication is the product of the
most comprehensive analysis of the world’s water resources ever undertaken.
Based on contributions from thousands of experts involved in regional, national
and sector consultations, it provides an authoritative diagnosis of water
resources and the pressures on them, and lays out the steps we must take. The
accompanying CD-ROM contains all the background documents produced during the
World Water Vision exercise: thousands of pages of regional and sector
scenarios, special studies, newsletters and information sheets.
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Global Environmental Outlook 2000 (GEO-2000).
United Nations Environment Programme. Earthscan Publications, London, 2000, 432
p. ISBN 1-85383-588-9 softcover; 1-85383-587-0 hardcover.
This
comprehensive and authoritative review and analysis of environmental conditions
around the world is based on information provided by more than 30 regional and
international collaborating centres. GEO-2000 is written in clear,
non-technical language, supported throughout by informative graphics and
tables, and it will be the benchmark reference and guide to the state of the
global environment. Chapter 1 describes the main drivers of environmental
change, such as the economy, population growth, political organization and
regionalization. Chapter 2 provides a global and region-by-region overview of
the environment at the end of the second millennium. The chapter covers global
issues such as ozone, climate change, El Niño, and nitrogen loading, and universal
issues of land and food, forests, biodiversity, freshwater, marine and coastal
areas, atmosphere and urban areas. In Chapter
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Sistemas de Uso de la Tierra en los
Trópicos Húmedos y la Emisión y Secuestro de CO2. Informes sobre recursos mundiales de suelos 88. FAO, Roma,
2000, 98 p. ISBN 92-5-304412-8. ISSN 1020-430X. (cobertura flexible)
Precio: USD 16.00.
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Land Resources Information Systems for Food Security in SADC
Countries. Proceedings of a subregional
workshop held in Harare, Zimbabwe, 3-5 November 1999. World Soil Resources
Reports 89. FAO, Rome, 2000, 78 p. ISBN 92-5-104427-9. ISSN 0532-0488.
Softcover.
The purpose
of the workshop, the first of its kind in the SADC subregion, was to promote
land resources information systems (LRIS) and their application in the
assessment, mapping and monitoring of land in relation to food production and
food security in the SADC countries. The meeting was attended by senior land
resources specialists from the region, and from some other countries. This
publication contains the proceedings, including group reviews of some discussed
items, the workshop recommendations, and a plan of action.
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Land Resource Potential and Constraints at Regional and Country
Levels. World Soil Resources Reports
For many
years, FAO has been building up information and has published about the world’s
land resources. This started with the preparation and publication of the Soil
Map of the World in the 1960’s, more recently made available in digitized form.
At an early stage it was realized that in order to evaluate land potential,
data on soils and landforms must be combined with the analysis of climate.
Estimates of land degradation, and of potential arable land have been added to
the range of information. The purpose of the present report is to provide an
overview of the physical resource data presently available. Specific objectives
are: (1) to indicate the relative extent of physical resource limitations to
agriculture and other forms of land use, with a focus on the national level;
(2) to highlight areas which call for the treatment or management of specific
land resource constraints, so that regional or national action plans can be
better focused on specific problems; and (3) to indicate the limitations of the
data, and hence the priority needs for improved information. The coverage is
global and in all, 160 countries are evaluated, omitting very small countries
for reasons of data unreliability at a world scale. The results reported in
this innovative approach at a world scale are first approximations. It is
stated that there is an urgent need to improve the reliability of the data.
This can only be done through more detailed studies by national resource survey
organizations. An interesting study, which needs a wide circulation!
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The European Soil Information System.
Proceedings of a Technical Consultation, Rome, Italy, 2-3 September 1999. World
Soil Resources Reports 91. FAO, Rome, 2000, vii + 150 p. ISBN 92-5-104454-6.
ISSN 0532-0488. Softcover.
This
publication forms the proceedings of a technical consultation, held in Rome,
2-3 September 1999, and sponsored by FAO and the European Commission. The
meeting was convened to consider the various issues related to soils
information systems in Europe. The participating experts in the field of soil
information gave oral statements on the status of available soil information in
their respective countries and the more detailed accounts are included in these
proceedings. Important items discussed also were the harmonization of the
concepts underlying mapping scales, procedures and classification, and
interpretation and the issues related to data ownership and availability of the
data. It was agreed that the national soil survey organizations remain the
owners of the data, but that the Soils and Terrain (SOTER) database at a scale
of 1 to 5 million could be released in the public domain.
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Hydrogeologisches Wörterbuch. Chr.
Adam, W. Glässer und B. Hölting. Enke im Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, New
York, 2000, 311 S. ISBN 3-13-118271-7.
Vorliegendes
Wörterbuch enthält Fachbegriffe, die im Zusammenhang mit hydrogeologischen
Arbeiten unter Einbeziehung wissenschaftlicher Nachbardisziplinen stehen. Dabei
handelt es sich vor allem um Begriffe zum Wasserkreislauf, d.h. zur Entstehung,
Verbreitung und Beschaffenheit von Gewässern sowie deren Nutzung und Schutz.
Hierzu gehören auch Begriffe mit Bezügen zur Umwelt, zur Verfahrenstechnik der
Wasserwirtschaft und zum Bergbau. Die Begriffe wurden nach ihrem Verständnis in
der aktuellen Literatur, in Normen, Richtlinien, Regeln, Arbeits- und Merkblättern,
nach ihrer wasserwirtschaftlichen und wasserrechtlichen Anwendung definiert.
Das Wörterbuch mit 5000 Stichwörter ist gleichermassen für Wissenschaftler,
Praktiker und hydrogeologisch interessierte Laien in Deutschland, aber auch für
das gesamte deutschsprachige Ausland bestimmt.
Preis: DEM 69,80, ATS 510,00,
CHF 63,50, EUR 35,69.
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Interactive North-South Research. International
Conference, December 16, 1999. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences,
Amsterdam, 2000, 104 p. ISBN 90-6984-288-2. Softcover.
Knowledge
is the driver of economic and social development all over the world. In this
era new information and communication technologies allow a much more rapid
exchange of information than ever before in history. In the developed world,
the information age appears to lead to different patterns of economic growth
and to changes in the social fabric. Many questions are raised concerning the
role of research in such a rapidly changing modern society. The central
question of the meeting entitled North-South Research, with special attention
for Natural Resource Management, is how the changing role of research in
societies from the North affects the interaction with researchers from the
South, and their relations with stakeholders. All over the world profound
developments are taking place in research on Natural Resource Management. In
this report, four case studies are presented, of which two are related to
soils. The essential elements of the discussion and general conclusions are
also given.
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Global Climate Change and Cold Regions Ecosystems.
Advances in Soil Science. R. Lal, J.M. Kimble and B.A. Stewart, editors. Lewis
Publishers, Boca Raton, London, 2000, 265 p. ISBN 1-56670-459-6. Hardcover.
Cold
ecosystems comprise arctic, subarctic, alpine and antarctic regions, boreal
forests, and peatlands. The total C pool in soils of these regions represent
16.4% of the global soil C pool for the tundra region and 25.6% of the global C
pool for the soils of the boreal forest ecoregion. These ecosystems have been a
net sink of C in the past; they may become a major source due to anthropogenic
activities in the region and elsewhere in other ecosystems. The database on
total C pools in soils of these ecoregions is sketchy, and little is known
about the C dynamics and its impact on the global C cycle. In the event of
global warming, these ecoregions are anticipated to undergo the most
significant increases in the mean annual temperature. This drastic increase
could substantially increase the depth of the soil’s active layer. The
information on soil organic carbon for these ecosystems is limited. Potential
environmental change is likely to influence this large C pool, and little is
known about the net effects of two opposing scenarios on the global carbon
cycle and agricultural productivity. An international workshop was organized in
1998 to discuss these issues. This volume is based on the presented papers. The
17 chapters are organized into four thematic sections. Section I (6 chapters)
deals with soil C pools in different ecoregions. Section II (5 chapters) deals
with the impact of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on soil C pool and
other properties. Section III (5 chapters) deals with method of assessment of C
and other properties of soils of the cold ecoregions. Section IV contains a
synthesis chapter and discusses the fate of C in soils of cold regions, and
research and development priorities.
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Global Climate Change and Tropical Ecosystems.
Advances in Soil Science. R. Lal, J.M. Kimble and B.A. Stewart, editors. Lewis
Publishers, Boca Raton, London, 2000, 438 p. ISBN 1-56670-485-5. Hardcover.
This book
is based on some papers presented at the workshop Carbon Pools and Dynamics in
Tropical Ecosystems, held in Belem, Brazil, in December 1997. Some additional
papers were selected to form part of this book.
The objectives of the workshop were to: (1) assess C pool in soils and
biomass of tropical ecosystems; (2) evaluate the magnitude of C flux from
natural and managed ecosystems; (3) determine the impact of anthropogenic
activities, land use and land cover, and management on C pools and fluxes; (4)
evaluate carbon dynamics in tropical ecosystems in relation to soil quality and
agricultural productivity; and (5) identify methodological and modeling
potentials and constraints to determine C pools and fluxes at different scales.
A total of 25 reviewed papers, representing data on C pools and fluxes from
case studies in 12 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific are
arranged in seven sections. The last section is a concluding chapter that summarizes
the discussion of all sections, identifies knowledge gaps and prioritizes
research and development issues.
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Global Climate Change and Pedogenic Carbonates.
Advances in Soil Science. R. Lal, J.M. Kimble, H. Eswaran and B.A. Stewart,
editors. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, London, 2000, 305 p. ISBN 1-56670-458-8.
Hardcover.
The global
soil carbon pool is the third largest pool after oceanic and geologic pools,
and consists of two components: soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil inorganic
carbon
(SIC). The
role of SIC, comprising lithogenic and pedogenic inorganic carbon, is neither
properly understood nor widely recognized. This book is about the magnitude,
dynamics, principles and factors affecting SIC and pedogenic inorganic carbon
in relation to the global C cycle. It is based on presentations at the first of
three workshops, held in Tunis in October 1997. Five parts contain 18 chapters.
Part I (four chapters) deals with basic concepts. Part II (three chapters)
deals with analytical methods. Part III (eight chapters) discusses the dynamics
of secondary carbonates. Part IV (two chapters) deals with management
impacts on pedogenic carbon, while the
last part contains recommendations and draws conclusions. The book collates and
synthesizes the available information on the topic, identifies some important
knowledge gaps, and prioritizes research and development needs.
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Reclaimed Land. Erosion Control, Soils and Ecology. Land
Reconstruction and Management, volume 1.
M.J. Haigh, editor. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam and
Brookfield, 2000, xiv + 385 p. ISBN 90-5410-793-6. Hardcover. Series ISSN
1389-2541.
This volume
is the first in a series that aims to publicise work being done to restore
lands that have been damaged by human actions and to manage lands in ways that
minimise the damages done by human actions. Each volume explores a particular
land management problem from the perspective of the applied scientist and
progressive practitioner. The level will lie between the research literature
and the advanced textbooks. This book covers an array of key issues within
current thinking on the conservation of land that has been reclaimed after
surface mining for coal. The huge tracks of degrading and low quality reclaimed
land testify to the need to consider land reclamation as a continuing process.
This book’s authors argue that this process continues until the ‘reclaimed
land’ attains a condition of self-sustaining self-control. Assembled by a
seven-nation team, this book attempts to review the applied research and
practical experience that is available to those striving to increase the
durability and self-sustainability of reclaimed lands.
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Soil Biochemistry Volume 10. J.-M.
Bollag and G. Stotzky, editors. Marcel Dekker, New York and Basel, 2000, xi +
519 p. ISBN 0-8247-8834-5. Hardcover.
A major
goal of this well-established series is to provide up-to-date reviews on the
factors that influence a spectrum of biological, biogeochemical, edaphic, and
ecological phenomena in soil, most of which have a biochemical basis. From a
practical viewpoint, as well as from the vantagepoint of basic science, there
is a need to characterize and explore further soil biochemical factors.
Increased knowledge of soil biochemistry will also contribute to improving the
quality of soil and to increasing food production. The variety of topics in the
present tenth volume shows the multidisciplinary nature of soil biochemistry.
The topics discussed range from anaerobic microbiology in rice fields, to
anaerobic degradation of specific pesticides, to the use of fungi in
environmental remediation, to the genetic ecology of Bradyrhizobium; from new
extraction techniques for humic materials and bound residues, to sorption of
enzymes on surfaces and its effects on enzyme activity. The adequacy of the
plate and other methods for characterizing microorganisms in soil is discussed
in several chapters. There is also a
chapter on the relation of soil biology and biochemistry to archaeology.
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Managing Soils in an Urban Environment.
Agronomy number 39. J.M. Bartels, managing editor, R.B. Brown, J.H. Huddleston
and J.L. Anderson, co-editors. American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science
Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, Madison, 2000, xvii + 296
p. ISBN 0-89118-143-1. Hardcover.
Soils have
provided and continue to provide the sustenance of humankind. Soils and their
connections to the rise and fall of ancient as well as modern civilizations are
well documented. However, in the last decade, the number of urban dwellers has
exceeded the number of tillers of the land on a global basis. Urbanization and
associated land use and soil management issues have created new domains for
soil scientists and agronomists. Increasingly, understanding of the occurrence,
distribution, nature, and appropriate management of soils for roads, houses,
buildings and other human-engineered artificial environments is of concern to
soil scientists, land managers, environmental scientists, and biologists.
Challenges extend to the determination and fostering of appropriate use of
urban soils for waste disposal, pest management, erosion and sediment control,
construction, and minimization of radon risk. This volume in the Agronomy
series is an assembly of ten writings on the application of soil science and
related disciplines to a breadth of land, soil, water and biological problems
occurring in the urban/suburban environment.
Price: USD 55.00, including postage for outside the
United States.
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Road, Madison, WI 53711-1086, USA. Fax: +1-608-273-2021. E-mail: books@agronomy.org.
Homepage: www.agronomy.org.
Ecology and Management of
Forests can
be viewed from a range of perspectives, all of which are based on soils. Forest
productivity is a story that centers on photosynthesis and plant growth, but
plant biochemistry is supported by nutrient cycles that are essentially a soil
story. Within a region, patterns in soil productivity result from spatial
variations in soils. The diversity of plant species in forests is largely a
soils story as well; across landscapes, the patters in vegetation are typically
modified (or even controlled) by patterns in soils. More than 99 percent of the
diversity of life in forest ecosystems resides in soils, where amazingly small,
numerous, and important organisms make the rest of the ecosystem possible. In
this book, the authors try to convey the key features of soil ecology that are
critical to successful management.
This book
is an amalgamation, update, and substantial expansion of two books (Forest
Soils: properties and management by Pritchett and Fisher, and Forest Nutrition
Management by Binkley). Major changes include a worldwide perspective (rather
than a North American focus), more chemistry, greater breadth and depth of case
studies, and more synthesis of patterns around the world.
Price: GBP 70.95.
Orders to:
John Wiley & Sons, Customer Services Dept., 1 Oldlands Way, Bognor Regis,
West Sussex PO22 9SA, UK. Fax: +44-1243-843296. E-mail: cs.books@wiley.co.uk.
In USA, Latin America and the Caribbean: John Wiley & Sons, Distribution
Center, 1 Wiley Drive, Somerset, NJ 08875-1272, USA. Fax: +1-732-302-2300.
E-mail: bookinfo@wiley.com. Homepage: www.wiley.com.
The Biological Management of Soil Fertility.
Special issue of the Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 48, number
1, June 2000, pages 1-124. Royal Society for Agricultural Sciences, Wageningen.
ISSN 0028-2928.
Upland
soils in the humid tropics of Southeast Asia are among the least fertile the
region. Farming communities are often poor and remote from infrastructure and
development. Consequently improvement of soils with fertilizers is difficult
and good prices for produce often hard to obtain. The most obvious way for
farmers to improve their lot is to adapt cropping systems to make maximum use
of the resources available. Crop residues can be recycled and use can be made
of soil and water for as long as possible throughout the year. Leguminous crops
can be grown, cover crops and hedgerow trees can be introduced. The biological
management of soil fertility project (BMSF), funded by the European Union,
sought to quantify both the immediate benefits of improved cropping systems and
organic matter inputs to crop nutrition as well as the contribution of long
term maintenance of soil organic matter and fertility. The research was carried
out in Indonesia and Thailand. The articles describe the improved cropping
systems: their benefit in terms of yield, the methodology developed and
validated as a tool to evaluate this benefit, analyses of the longevity of
additions of organic matter to soil, and detailed descriptions of the social
climate and farmers’ attitudes to cropping and economic benefit. The issue
closes with a synthesis of the project and the main conclusions.
Price: NLG 30.00.
Orders to:
Royal Society for Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 79, 6700 AB Wageningen, The
Netherlands. Fax: +31-317-483976. Homepage: www.gcw.nl/kiosk/njas.
Consequences of Land Use Changes. Advances in Ecological
Sciences, vol. 5.
Ü. Mander and R.H.G. Jongman, editors. WIT Press, Southampton and Boston, 2000,
314 p. ISBN 1-85312-650-0. ISSN 1369-8273. Hardcover.
The objectives of the recently established
International Series on Advances in Ecological Sciences is to provide
information on basic applied research and practical applications of a wide
range of topics related to Ecology. The books are concerned with the
state-of-the-art information on ecological problems and as such comprise
several volumes every year covering the latest developments and applications. The
aim is to encourage and facilitate interdisciplinary communication amongst
scientists, engineers, economists and professionals working in the different
areas of ecological research and applications.
The
cultural landscapes of Europe are the result of thousands of years of human
impact. As a product of human intervention in natural processes, landscapes
have always been changing. Both intensive and extensive land uses are expressed
in the structure of the land, the size of the parcels and the area of natural
and semi-natural vegetation that is present. Europe’s changing borders since
1989 and the vanishing boundaries within the European Union are not only
political and economic, but have also resulted in intensive landscape changes.
The task for landscape ecologists, conservationists, planners, decision makers
and others involved in the processes influencing landscape changes is to find
optimal ways for maintaining landscape diversity. Many of the problems related
to land use changes were discussed during the Ecological and Socio-economic
Consequences of Land Use Changes symposium at the VII International Congress of
Ecology. The reviewed and edited papers presented at the symposium are
published under two sections: the first considers main concepts, methods and
monitoring, and the second consequences of land use changes in different
countries around the world.
Price: GBP 96.00, USD 157.00.
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see below.
Landscape Perspectives of Land Use Changes.
Advances in Ecological Sciences, volume 6. Ü. Mander and R.H.G. Jongman,
editors. WIT Press, Southampton and Boston, 2000, 209 p. ISBN 1-85312-848-1.
ISSN 1369-8273. Hardcover.
Landscapes
have always reflected changing populations, fluctuating needs and evolving
technologies. This volume presents a variety of scenarios for the development
of landscapes. A wide spectrum of land use intensity is considered, from
urbanised landscapes in Madrid and The Netherlands, to marginal and remote
areas in Estonia. The research papers and case studies featured in this volume
were also presented at the VII International Congress of Ecology. They are
mostly concerned with Europe, but also contain papers from Japan and the USA.
Price: GBP 79.00, USD 126.00
Orders to:
WIT Press, Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst, Southampton, SO40 7AA, UK. Fax:
+44-238-0292853. E-mail: witpress@witpress.com. Homepage: www.witpress.com.
Managing Soil Fertility in the Tropics. A Resource Guide for
Participatory Learning and Action Research. T. Defoer
and A. Budelman, editors. KIT Press,
Amsterdam, 2000. ISBN 90-6832-128-
The main
aim of this set of publications is to give field workers practical advice on
how to work with farmers to improve soil fertility management. It offers advice
on efficient ways of managing all possible sources of soil fertility – in other
words, integrated soil fertility management.
The very
well produced set of information comes in five parts:
Part 1.
Building common knowledge: Participatory learning and action research. T.
Defoer, A. Budelman, C. Toulmin and S.E. Carter. 208 p. Softcover.
This first
part can be used to generate and manage knowledge related to soil fertility.
Different stakeholders generally have different types of knowledge and understanding;
”common” knowledge for farmers is not necessarily ”common” for scientists or
development workers, and vice versa. When effective collaboration is essential
to improve rural living conditions, including soil fertility, it is necessary
to build bridges between knowledge domains. This textbook can help to achieve
constructing bridges for example by using nutrient flow analysis. It begins by
demystifying concepts and theories of system diversity, and creating frameworks
for the analysis of farming situations. At the heart of the book is a
structured process called participatory learning and action research (PLAR).
PLAR takes place within farming communities. Based on an analysis of farmers’
current management practices, it continues with step-wise planning,
experimentation and evaluation of improvements. Parts 3 and 5 of the Resource
Guide present details of eleven methodological Tools that can be used in the
process. A brief outline of procedures for storing and using information
gathered during PLAR is given. This can be used to calculate nutrient flows and
balances with the software package in Parts 4 and 5. Part 2. PLAR and resource
flow analysis in practice. Case studies from Benin, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali and
Tanzania. A. Budelman and T Defoer, editors. 192 p. Softcover. This part brings
together several case studies that show the wide variety of farming systems in
the savanna and highland areas of Su-Saharan Africa. They may be used as a
point of reference when analysing other farming systems, and are also meant to
show the reader how the PLAR approach can stimulate and facilitate change.
These case studies also chart the development and use of nutrient flow analysis
(NFA), which was developed to help scientists analyse the farming situation in
more detail. Part 3. Field tools for
participatory learning and action research. T. Defoer. This part provides
eleven tools, to be used in the field during a participatory learning and
action process with farmers. These are presented on a set of laminated cards
that give an overview of guidelines for setting up and implementing fieldwork
with farmers. They outline procedures, topics for discussion, and an example
for investigating and analysing the topics. More detailed information is given
in Part 5. Part 4. CD-ROM: ResourceKIT (software package) and Detailed Field
Tools (electronic version). The CD-ROM
has two sections. The first is a user-friendly software package called the
ResourceKIT, which makes it easier to manage data gathered from the maps drawn
by farmers. It can be used on a laptop computer, and provides a framework for
analysing and presenting data in the form of nutrient flows and balances at
farm level. The second section provides electronic versions of the Detailed
Field Tools that can also be found in Part 5. Part 5. Detailed field tools for
PLAR/User Guide to the ResourceKIT. The first section of this part gives
detailed versions of each Field Tool, mentioned in Part 3. For most tools this
includes a set of detailed interview forms and recording forms. The user can
either adapt these forms to their own circumstances or use them as a source of
ideas for designing new forms. The forms are also on the CD-ROM, so that they
can be copied and modified. The Royal Tropical Institute, in collaboration with
IIED, IER, FAO and CTA publishes this excellent resource guide.
Price: NLG 250.00, USD 100.00, plus handling and
postage.
Orders to:
KIT Press, P.O. Box 95001,
Agriculture, Fertilizers and the Environment. M.
Laegreid, O.C. Bockman and O. Kaarstad. CABI
Publishing, Wallingford, in association with Norsk Hydro ASA, Oslo, 2000, xxiv
+ 294 p.
ISBN 0-85199-385-3.
Softcover.
The
purpose of this book is to provide a balanced scientific review of the
environmental and sustainability issues relating to fertilizer use and how its
environmental impact can be minimized. It is divided into three parts. Part 1
introduces the challenge of producing enough food for the growing world
population, discusses the role and sources of plant nutrients in crop growth,
and gives a general overview of the constraints on and opportunities for
sustainable food production. Part 2 deals with the principles of soil
productivity and its maintenance, the individual plant nutrients, their
utilization, and the direct and indirect environmental and sustainability
issues consequent on their use as mineral fertilizers. Part 3 outlines ands
summarizes challenges and opportunities for increasing cereal production and
agricultural sustainability in major food-producing regions. It is concluded
that food production can be increased on a sustainable basis, provided economic
policies are pursued that makes sustainable management possible and attractive
to farmers. The book ends with an extensive summary and list of conclusions.
Price: GBP 22.50,
USD 40.00, plus VAT and postage. Orders
to: In USA and Mexico: CABI Publishing, 10 East 40th Street,
Suite 3203, New York, NY 10010, USA. Fax: +1-212-686-7993. E-mail: cabi-nao@cabi.org.
Homepage: www.oup-usa.org. Elsewhere: CABI Publishing, Wallingford,
Oxfordshire OX10 8DE, UK. Fax: +44-1491-829292. E-mail: orders@cabi-org.
Homepage: www.cabi.org.
Climate Change, Climatic Variability and Agriculture in
This
publication provides a thorough assessment of the potential impacts of climatic
change on selected crops in Europe. The study, carried out by fifteen research
institutes in ten member countries of the EU and one eastern European research
centre, had four main aims: (1) to improve the performance of existing
mechanistic crop models, with particular emphasis on climatic extremes and
yield quality, through experimentation; (2) to develop methodologies for
scaling-up site-based crop models to the regional, national and continental
scales; (3) to advance research on four crop types: a cereal (wheat), a legume
(soya bean), a perennial fruit crop (grapevine), and a tuber (potato); and (4)
to investigate the impacts of anthropogenic climate change on crop development,
growth, yield and yield quality at a hierarchy of modeling scales. Previous
research in the CLAIRE project (Climate Change and Agriculture in Europe:
Assessment and Impacts and Adaptations), is also available as a report from the
editors. This assessment of methodologies and impacts will provide informed
input to the scientific, political and economic debates regarding appropriate
strategies to adapt to climate changes and to mitigate the impacts on food
supply and agricultural livelihoods. The report is relevant for all that are
concerned with climate change, agriculture, scaling-up techniques and land use.
Orders to:
The Administrator, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, 1a
Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB, UK. Fax: +44-1865-281181. Homepage: www.eci.ox.ac.uk.
Micronutrients: Their Behaviour in Soils and Plants. D.K. Das. Kalyani Publishers,
Ludhiana, India, 2000, 307 p., ISDN 81-7663-550-2. Soft cover.
The book
deals with essential micronutrients for plants (Fe, Mn, Cu, Zn, B, Mo, Cl),
elements indirectly associated with plant nutrition (Si, Co, Na, V),
micronutrient pollution and soil and plant tissue testing for micronutrients
within nine chapters. Special emphasis has been given to the discussion of the
behaviour of micronutrients in soils and plants, including their chemistry of
transformation, interaction with other nutrients and further parameters which
play a role in plant nutrition and crop responses.
The book
was basically written for graduate and post-graduate students of agriculture,
as well as for researchers in the various fields of biological and
environmental sciences, with some basic knowledge in soil science, plant
physiology and biochemistry.
Price: 125 Indian Rupies
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Kalyani Publishers,
Wege zum vorsorgenden Bodenschutz. Fachliche Grundlagen und
konzeptionelle Schritte für eine erweiterte Boden-Vorsorge, G.
Bachmann und H.W. Thoenes, (Hrsg.), Reihe: Bodenschutz und Altlasten, Band 8,
213 Seiten, 14,4x21 cm, kartoniert, 2000 – ISBN 3 503 05867 2. Vorliegende
Publikation basiert auf einem Gutachten des Wissenschaftlichen Beirates
Bodenschutz beim deutschen Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und
Reaktorsicherheit. Die Aufgabe dieses Beirates ist es, die Vielfalt und
Komplexität wissenschaftlicher Betrachtungen des Bodenschutzes interdisziplinär
zusammenzuführen. Vorliegende Broschüre behandelt die vielfältigen Aspekte des
vorsorgenden Bodenschutzes in Deutschland, mit dem Ziel, diese in Zukunft zu
erweitern. Hierbei werden Leitbilder, Leitideen und Grundregeln der Vorsorge
unterschieden. Die hieraus resultierenden Empfehlungen und Vorschläge sprechen
sowohl einzelne Handlungsfelder wie auch Instrumente und Verfahrensweisen des
Bodenschutzes an, die zur Koordinierung der vielfältigen Aktionsmöglichkeiten
erforderlich erscheinen.
Preis: DM 56/öS 409/SFr 50,50/Euro 28,63
Zu bestellen: Erich
Schmidt Verlag, Berlin, Bielefeld, München, Zweigniederlassung Bielefeld,
Viktoriastraße
Sustainable Development and Integrated Appraisal in a Developing
World. N. Lee and C. Kirkpatrick, editors. Edward Elgar,
Cheltenham and Northampton, 2000, xvi + 250 p. ISBN 1-84064-162-2. Hardbound.
It is
widely recognized that sustainable development can only be achieved if
environmental, economic and social issues are combined in development plans, policies
and programmes. This book examines this integrated approach to the development
process, and analyses the theory and practice of integrating assessment
techniques and decision making. The editors begin by presenting a comprehensive
introduction to integrated appraisal in development strategies as well as
outlining issues, which are important for the future understanding and
practical application of integrated appraisal. A group of authors from a range
of disciplinary and country backgrounds then present alternative perspectives
and methods of an integrated approach to sustainable development, and apply
integrated appraisal to a variety of case studies from developing and
transitional countries.