Soil resilience and sustainable land use : proceedings of a symposium held in Budapest, 28 September to 2 October 1992, including the Second Workshop on the Ecological Foundations of Sustainable Agriculture (WEFSA II) /
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| Imprint: | Wallingford, Oxon : CAB International, c1994. |
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| Description: | xiv, 561 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8165917 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Recommendations
- Foreword
- Part I. Sustainable Agriculture and Soil Resilience
- 1. The Ecological Foundations of Sustainable Land Use: Hungarian Agriculture and the Way to Sustainability
- 2. Soil Resilience and Sustainable Land Management in the Context of AGENDA 21
- 3. The Concept of Soil Resilience
- 4. Sustainable Land Use Systems and Soil Resilience
- 5. The Biological Dimension of Soil Resilience: the Impact of Molecular Biology
- 6. Ecological-Economic Assessment of Soil Management Practices for Sustainble Land Use in Tropical Countries
- Part II. The Extent of Soil Degradation
- 7. The Global Extent of Soil Degradation
- 8. Soil Degradation in Hungary
- 9. Degraded Lands and Their Rehabilitation in India
- 10. Constraints in Managing Soils for Sustainable Land Use in Drylands
- Part III. Avoiding and Combating Soil Degradation
- 11. Determinants of Resilience in Soil Nutrient Dyanmics
- 12. Maintaining Nutrient Status of Soils: Macronutrients
- 13. Maintaining Soil Micronutrient Status
- 14. Maintaining Soil Physical Conditions
- 15. Maintaining the Biological Status of Soil: a Key to Sustainable Land Management
- 16. Sustainable Land Use in the Light of Resilience/Elasticity to Soil Organic Matter Fluctuations
- Part IV. Soil Organisms and Soil Resilience
- 17. Functional Attributes of Biodiversity in Land Use Systems
- 18. Soil Fauna and Sustainable Land Use in the Humid Tropics
- 19. Interrelationships between Biological Activities, Soil Properties and Soil Management
- 20. Biological Indicators of Soil Health and Sustainable Productivity
- 21. Biodiversity and Soil Resilience
- Part V. Methodologies for the Study of Soil Resilience and Sustainable Land Use
- 22. Long-Term Field Experiments: their Importance in Understanding Sustainable Land Use
- 23. The Setting-up, Conduct and Applicability of Long-term, Continuing Field Experiments in Agricultural Research
- 24. Modeling Changes in Soil Properties
- 25. Structural Aspects of Soil Resilience
- 26. Soil Databases for Sustainable Land Use: Hungarian Case Study
- 27. The Role of Information Services in Sustainable Land Use
- Part VI. Promoting Soil Resilience for Sustainable Land Use
- 28. Using Collaborative Research Networks to Promote Sustainable Land Use
- 29. The Work of FAO's Land and Water Division in Sustainable Land Use
- 30. A Concept of Sustainablility and Resilience Based on Soil Functions: the Role of the International Society of Soil Science in Promoting Sustainable Land Use
- Appendix: Recommendations of the Working Groups
- Index
