Author : John M. Kimble
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 27,21 MB
Release : 2002-09-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 1420032275
Much attention has been given to above ground biomass and its potential as a carbon sink, but in a mature forest ecosystem 40 to 60 percent of the stored carbon is below ground. As increasing numbers of forests are managed in a wide diversity of climates and soils, the importance of forest soils as a potential carbon sink grows. The Potenti
Author : Parmod Kumar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8132220145
This book discusses the important issue of the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of agricultural residue burning, common in agricultural practices in many parts of the world. In particular, it focuses on the pollution caused by rice residue burning using primary survey data from Punjab, India. It discusses emerging solutions to agricultural waste burning that are cost-effective in terms of both money and time. The burning of agricultural residue causes severe pollution in land, water and air and contributes to increased ozone levels and climate change in the long term. However, appropriate assessments have not been undertaken so far to demonstrate the relevant impact of agriculture-based pollution, especially residue burning. This book addresses this gap in the literature. Punjab has been used as a case study as it is the chief granary of India, contributing to 27.2 percent of the Indian national produce of rice and 43.8 percent of wheat. It is presumed that the findings from this state will be useful not only for other agricultural areas in India, but across the world. This book, therefore, sensitizes policy makers, researchers and students about the impacts of air pollution caused by agricultural residue burning---a subject not much dealt in the literature---and provides a way forward.
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Page : 8 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Agricultural estimating and reporting
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Page : 750 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Atmospheric carbon dioxide
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Author : Andy Clark
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 29,27 MB
Release : 2008-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1437903797
Cover crops slow erosion, improve soil, smother weeds, enhance nutrient and moisture availability, help control many pests and bring a host of other benefits to your farm. At the same time, they can reduce costs, increase profits and even create new sources of income. You¿ll reap dividends on your cover crop investments for years, since their benefits accumulate over the long term. This book will help you find which ones are right for you. Captures farmer and other research results from the past ten years. The authors verified the info. from the 2nd ed., added new results and updated farmer profiles and research data, and added 2 chap. Includes maps and charts, detailed narratives about individual cover crop species, and chap. about aspects of cover cropping.
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Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
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Category : Agriculture
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Author : Rabindra N. Roy
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 12,74 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789251050385
Nutrient-balance assessments are valuable tools for delineating the consequences of farming on soil fertility. Various approaches and methods for different situations have been used in the past. This bulletin presents a state-of-the-art review of nutrient balance studies. It brings out the evolution of the approaches and methods, provides for comparisons among them, features the improvements made, and highlights remaining issues. This analysis will be useful in further development of the assessment methodologies as reliable tools for devising time-scale soil fertility management interventions.
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Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9789251009451
Author : Daniel Hillel
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Page : pages
File Size : 19,40 MB
Release : 2008
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Author : Maria Angeles Munoz
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,98 MB
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 0128121297
Soil Management and Climate Change: Effects on Organic Carbon, Nitrogen Dynamics, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions provides a state of the art overview of recent findings and future research challenges regarding physical, chemical and biological processes controlling soil carbon, nitrogen dynamic and greenhouse gas emissions from soils. This book is for students and academics in soil science and environmental science, land managers, public administrators and legislators, and will increase understanding of organic matter preservation in soil and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. Given the central role soil plays on the global carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycles and its impact on greenhouse gas emissions, there is an urgent need to increase our common understanding about sources, mechanisms and processes that regulate organic matter mineralization and stabilization, and to identify those management practices and processes which mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, helping increase organic matter stabilization with suitable supplies of available N. - Provides the latest findings about soil organic matter stabilization and greenhouse gas emissions - Covers the effect of practices and management on soil organic matter stabilization - Includes information for readers to select the most suitable management practices to increase soil organic matter stabilization
