Soil Degradation, Restoration and Management in a Global Change Context, Volume 4

1. To whom the burden of soil degradation and management concerns
Amber M. Bateman and Miriam Muñoz-Rojas
2. Agriculture and grazing environments
Igor Bogunovic, Manuel Pulido Fernandez, Ivica Kisic, and Maria Burguet Marimon
3. Soil degradation, restoration and management in abandoned and afforested lands
Teodoro Lasanta, José Arnaez, and Estela Nadal-Romero
4. Environments affected by fire
Paulo Pereira, Juan F. Martínez-Murillo, and Marcos Francos
5. Mining environments
María Gabarrón, Raúl Zornoza, Jose A. Acosta, Ángel Faz, and Silvia Martínez-Martínez
6. Urban areas
Carla S.S. Ferreira, Zahra Kalantari, Luca Salvati, Loredana Canfora, Ilaria Zambon, and Rory P.D. Walsh

Soil Degradation, Restoration and Management in a Global Change Context, volume four in the Advances in Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection series, explores a wide breadth of emerging and state-of-the-art technologies and provides the best practices to manage soils affected by degradation. Soils are the base of life, thus a sustainable soil management is crucial in a context of global environmental change. Chapters in this new release include Soil degradation, processes, future treats and possible solutions, Agriculture and grazing environments, Abandoned and afforested lands, Environments affected by fire, Mining environments, Urban areas, and Lands affected by war.

• Covers a wide breadth of emerging and state-of-the-art technologies
• Includes contributions from an international board of authors
• Provides a comprehensive set of reviews
• Synthesizes all aspects involved in soil degradation

Students and professionals from both soil science and land management fields, professionals in Geography, Ecology, Environmental Science, Spatial planning, Agriculture, Agronomy, Biology and Engineering