Soil Erosion in Europe


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Provides a unique and comprehensive assessment of soil erosion throughout Europe, an important aspect to control and manage if landscapes are to be sustained for the future. Written in two parts, Soil Erosion in Europe primarily focuses on current issues, area specific soil erosion rates, on and off-site impacts, government responses, soil conservation measures, and soil erosion risk maps. The first part overviews the erosion processes and the problems encountered within each European country, whilst the second section takes a cross-cutting theme approach. Based on an EU-funded project that has been running for four years with erosion scientists from 19 countries Reviews contemporary erosion processes and rates on arable and rangeland in Europe Looks at current issues, such as socio-economic drivers, controlling factors specific to the country and changes in land use




Coastal Erosion and Protection in Europe


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Climate change is now creating enhanced risks of coastal erosion through storms and rising sea levels. This text provides a comprehensive review of the entire coastline of Europe, and provides a comparative analysis of the various erosion problems and solutions from across the continent.




Soil Erosion Protection Measures in Europe


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Agricultural wind erosion control measures in the Netherlands; Design of In-field systems for wind erosion control; How to succeed in planting 900 km of shelterbells per year in a small country like denmark; The use of farming systems for the control of runoff and erosion (example from a given country with thalweg erosion); Conditions for gully formation in the Belgian Loam Belt and some ways to control them; Measures for runoff and erosion control on clayey soils: A review of trials carried out in the apennines hilly area; Drainage as a soil conservation and soil stabilizing paractice on hilly slopes; Erosion control in maize fields in schleswig-holstein; Erosional systems and perspectives for erosion control in european loess areas; Runoff, erosion and sugarbeet yelds in conventional and mulched cultivation results of the 1988 experiment; The effectiveness of strubble mulching in soil erosion control; Soil tillage, soil structure and soil erosion in denmark; The use of organic waste materials and plant cover for soil surface protection and crop production; Soil conservation under minimum tillage techniques in mediterranean dry farming; Erosion control in vineyards of the mosel-region FRC; The benefit of permanent grass mulching for limiting runoff and erosion in vineyards. Experimentations using rainfall-simulations in the beaujolais; The land consolidation project of freinhausen, Bavaria; Revision of land management systems in Italian Hilly area; Land evaluation and erosion control practices on mined soils ...




Predicting Rainfall Erosion Losses


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The Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) enables planners to predict the average rate of soil erosion for each feasible alternative combination of crop system and management practices in association with a specified soil type, rainfall pattern, and topography. When these predicted losses are compared with given soil loss tolerances, they provide specific guidelines for effecting erosion control within specified limits. The equation groups the numerous interrelated physical and management parameters that influence erosion rate under six major factors whose site-specific values can be expressed numerically. A half century of erosion research in many States has supplied information from which at least approximate values of the USLE factors can be obtained for specified farm fields or other small erosion prone areas throughout the United States. Tables and charts presented in this handbook make this information readily available for field use. Significant limitations in the available data are identified.




Climate and Land Degradation


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Based on an International Workshop held in Arusha, Tanzania, this book presents state-of-the-art papers, real world applications, and innovative techniques for combating land degradation. It offers recommendations for effectively using weather and climate information for sustainable land management practices.




Soil Erosion Protection Measures in Europe


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The aim of the European Community Workshop on Soil Erosion Protection in 1988 was to focus on protection measures against soil loss and offsite effects suitable for the wide range of soil and agricultural conditions in the various European countries. The workshop was attended by 35 specialists from ten member countries of the EEC and from Austria and Yugoslavia who presented 19 papers in a technical session. In addition, field trips were organized to inspect and discuss steep slope stabilization in Allg�uer Alps area, land consolidation with special reference to soil erosion protection, and soil conservation practices under maize and sugar beet in the agricultural area of Lower Bavaria. At the end of the workshop the attendents released recommendations for further activities which are also included in this volume. This volume contains 20 papers presented during the workshop including two paper which report the work demonstrated during one of the field trips. The papers were accepted for publication after being reviewed by at least two independent, anonymous reviewers.




Soil Erosion and Conservation


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Provides comprehensive treatment of soil erosion processes and their control and a practical approach of the design of soil conservation methods.




Global Degradation of Soil and Water Resources


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This book focuses on soil and water conservation at global scale. It is a serious environmental problem that will threaten the socio-economic well-being of the majority of global population in future. The book examines the current situation of land degradation in multiple regions of the world and offers alternative approaches to solve the problems through sharing advanced technologies and lessons learned. It provides comprehensive assessment on characteristics, level and effect of degradation in different regions. It’s a highly informative reference both for researchers and graduate students.




Soil erosion: the greatest challenge for sustainable soil management


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Despite almost a century of research and extension efforts, soil erosion by water, wind and tillage continues to be the greatest threat to soil health and soil ecosystem services in many regions of the world. Our understanding of the physical processes of erosion and the controls on those processes has been firmly established. Nevertheless, some elements remain controversial. It is often these controversial questions that hamper efforts to implement sound erosion control measures in many areas of the world. This book, released in the framework of the Global Symposium on Soil Erosion (15-17 May 2019) reviews the state-of-the-art information related to all topics related to soil erosion.




Soil Erosion


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- Problem der Bodenerosion wird hier mit ganzheitlichem Ansatz besprochen - Ursachen und Auswirkungen der Erosion werden in sozialökonomischen Kontext gebracht - ausführliche Angaben über Methoden der Verfolgung von Bodenerosion (GPS, GIS, Erdfernerkundung) - mit einer gut verständlichen allgemeinen Einführung in Bodenkunde und Hydrologie