Electronic Books

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A Visual Atlas for Soil Micromorphologists

This atlas is an up-to-date visual resource on the features and structures observed in soil thin sections, i.e. soil micromorphology.

Agroecological Transitions: From Theory to Practice in Local Participatory Design

There is wide agreement on the need to change the prevalent agricultural models, given their negative impacts and their incompatibility ...

An Introduction to Soil Mechanics / Arnold Verruijt

Offers a superb introduction to theoretical and practical soil mechanics. Special attention is given to the risks of failure ...

Assessing Recent Soil Erosion Rates through the Use of Beryllium-7 (Be-7)

This book is the first comprehensive guideline for the beryllium-7 (Be-7) technique that can be applied to evaluate short-term ...

Contaminant Geochemistry : Interactions and Transport in the Subsurface Environment

This book combines earth science, subsurface hydrology and environmental geochemistry, providing a comprehensive background ...

Demands of Expanding Populations and Development Planning : Clean Air, Safe Water, Fertile Soils

This book brings together three topics that interact to affect the quality of life on Earth. First, it examines expanding ...

Digital Soil Mapping with Limited Data

This book focuses on digital soil mapping methodologies and applications for areas where data are limited, and has the following ...

Disturbed soil properties and geotechnical design

Describes the developments leading to the Original Cam Clay model, focusing on fundamentals of the shearing of soil. The ...

Encyclopedia of Soil Science

The Encyclopedia of Soil Science provides a comprehensive, alphabetical treatment of basic soil science in a single volume. ...

Geotechnical Slope Analysis / Robin Chowdhury, Gautam Bhattacharya, Subhadeep Metya

The influence of initial stresses, pore water pressures and seismic forces has been explored not only on performance indicators ...

Improving Potassium Recommendations for Agricultural Crops

This book highlights concepts discussed at two international conferences that brought together world-renowned scientists ...

Kinetics of Water-Rock Interaction

Systems at the surface of the Earth are continually responding to energy inputs derived from solar radiation or from the ...

Land Use and Soil Resources

Land-use change is one of the main drivers of many environmental change processes. It influences the basic resources of land ...

Measuring Emission of Agricultural Greenhouse Gases and Developing Mitigation Options using Nuclear and Related Techniques Applications of Nuclear Techniques for GHGs

This book is an outcome of the collaboration between the Soil and Water Management & Crop Nutrition Section, Joint FAO/IAEA ...

Methods for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Balances and Evaluating Mitigation Options in Smallholder Agriculture

This book provides standards and guidelines for quantifying greenhouse gas emissions and removals in smallholder agricultural ...

Model Tests and Numerical Simulations of Liquefaction and Lateral Spreading LEAP-UCD-2017

This book presents work collected through the Liquefaction Experiments and Analysis Projects (LEAP) in 2017. It addresses ...

New Trends in Soil Micromorphology

The soil water retention curve, the saturated hydraulic conductivity and the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity function ...

Post-Agricultural Succession in the Neotropics

Post-Agricultural Succession in the Neotropics draws implications from scientific studies for the wise management of old ...

Principles of Soil Conservation and Management

“Principles of Soil Management and Conservation” comprehensively reviews the state-of-knowledge on soil erosion and management. ...

Slope Stability and Erosion Control: Ecotechnological Solutions

This book is designed to assist the civil and geotechnical engineer, geomorphologist, forester, landscape architect or ecologist ...

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