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OverviewSoil 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Paulo Pereira (Professor, Environmental Management Center, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania) , Paulo Pereira (Environment Management Centre, Mykolas Romeris Univeristy, Lithuania) , Paulo Pereira (Environment Management Centre, Mykolas Romeris Univeristy, Lithuania) , Paulo Pereira (Environment Management Centre, Mykolas Romeris Univeristy, Lithuania)Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc Imprint: Academic Press Inc Weight: 0.410kg ISBN: 9780128164150ISBN 10: 0128164158 Pages: 536 Publication Date: 28 October 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. 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. WalshReviewsAuthor InformationPaulo Pereira is a full professor at the Environmental Management Center, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania. He holds a PhD in Physical Geography from the University of Barcelona and has previous experience working on spatial modelling of environmental variables and applying these results to sustainable landscape planning. Prof. Pereira was awarded the outstanding young scientist award from the Soil System Sciences Division (European Geoscience Union) and is one of the most influential scientists in the world in the field of environmental sciences, according to Elsevier/Stanford University. Prof. Pereira is an editor and guest editor of various journals in the field of environment and soil science. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |