Completely revised and updated, incorporating almost a decade's
worth of developments in this field, Environmental Soil Science,
Third Edition, explores the entire reach of the subject, beginning
with soil properties and reactions and moving on to their
relationship to environmental properties and reactions. Keeping the
organization and writing style that made previous editions
bestsellers, the author addresses the definitions of environmental
science, ecology, and soil science, underscoring their combination
into environmental soil science.
The book highlights the live biological constituents that make
up the soil, exploring the changes made by agricultural operations
and other human activities that lead to changes in the environment
and our natural ecosystem. These include causes, effects, and
solutions for acid rain, global warming, and destruction of the
ozone layer. The author also provides extensive coverage of
soilless agriculture, hydroponics, fish farming, vanishing
biodiversity due to the destruction of jungles and the rain forest,
and what to do about it.
New in the Third Edition:
- Al Gore's Nobel Prize winning politics on global warming and
apocalyptic predictions
- Biofuel production from agricultural trash and the controversy
over using corn for alcohol production
- Advances in biotechnology and the issues surrounding golden
rice, flavr savr tomato, roundup ready plants, and GM crops
- The effects of agricultural operations and other human
activities on changing soil properties and environment
- Introduction of a new soil group, Paddy soils, a unique man
made soil formed by centuries of rice cultivation
- Blue Revolution and marine biodiversity
- Use of eutrophication in aquaculture
Growing ecological awareness has put the spotlight on all
environmental disciplines, and environmental soil science is no
exception. This has created broader interest in what has
traditionally been a fundamental subject. This book tackles matters
which must be urgently addressed due to the mounting evidence of
climate change.
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