Soil Conservation Management and Analysis

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Formation of Land. 2. Waste and Wet Land Management. 3. Landscape Ecology. 4. Soil Erosion and Soil Depletion. 5. Desertification and its Impact on Soils in India. 6. Environmental Modeling. 7. Preserve Planet Earth. 8. RIO Earth Summit. 9. Environmental Effects with Special reference to Soils on Dams, Forests and Tribals. 10. Environmental Education, Monitoring and Soil Management. Appendices: 1. Scientists’ Prescription to make Soil Fertile. 2. Land in India. 3. Environmental Superlatives. 4. Addresses of International Organizations/NGOs/Funding Agencies. Unit-I: 1. Introduction. 2. Lithosphere. 3. Definition of Soil. 4. Formation of Soil. 5. Kinds (Types) of Soil in India. 6. Soil Profile. 7. Classification of Soils. 8. Characteristics of Different Soil Types. 9. Physical Characters of Soil. 10. Chemical and Colloidal Characters of Soil (Chemical Weathering). 11. Biological Characters of Soil (Sustainable Agriculture). 12. Soil Organisms: Plants, Microorganisms and Animals. 13. Soil Conservation and Management. 14. Desertification of Soils. 15. General Soil Map. Unit-II: 16. Soil Analysis. Acknowledgements. Bibliography. Glossary.

Soil Conservation, Management and Analysis comprehensively reviews the state of knowledge on soil. It discusses in detail soil conservation topics in relation to soil productivity, environment quality and agronomic production. This book also gives various analytical techniques/methods together for evaluation of soil quality parameters.

This book is suitable for both undergraduate and post-graduate students interested in soil conservation, management and analysis. It is equally useful to the agriculturists, Pollution Control Boards, industries, policy makers, extension workers as well as for the research professional in the soil laboratory.