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

1. Soil degradation, processes, future treats and possible solutions
Miriam Munoz-Rojas
2. Agriculture and grazing environments
Igor Bogunovic
3. Abandoned and afforested lands
Estela Nadal-Romero
4. Environments affected by fire
Juan Francisco Martinez-Murillo
5. Mining environments
Raúl Zornoza
6. Urban areas
Carla Sofia Santos Ferreira
7. Lands affected by war
Paulo Pereira

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