Soil Erosion and Conservation provides a comprehensive treatment of the processes of soil erosion, the methods that can be used for their control, and the issues involved in designing and implementing soil conservation programmes.
Features of the third edition of this internationally recognised textbook include:
- New material on gully erosion, tillage practices, erosion risk assessment, use of erosion models, incentives for farmers and land users, and community approaches to erosion control
- Updated sections on the mechanics of wind erosion, soil erodibility, use of vegetation in erosion control, traditional soil conservation measures, socio-economic issues and the role of government
- Describes the methods used to assess the risk of erosion and predict rates of soil loss
- Outlines the social, economic, political and institutional constraints on implementing soil protection measures
- Covers erosion and its control for agriculture, grazing, forestry, mining land, road banks, pipeline corridors and recreation
- Provides worldwide coverage of the success and failure of erosion control using material from Europe, Africa, Australia, America and Asia
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Table of Contents:
Foreword vii
Preface ix
1 Soil erosion: the global context 1
Box 1. Erosion, population and food supply 9
2 Processes and mechanics of erosion 11
Box 2. Initiation of soil particle movement 42
3 Factors influencing erosion 45
Box 3. Scale and erosion processes 65
4 Erosion hazard assessment 67
Box 4. Upscaling detailed field surveys to national surveys 93
5 Measurement of soil erosion 95
Box 5. Sediment budgets 113
6 Modelling soil erosion 116
Box 6. Uncertainty in model predictions 149
7 Strategies for erosion control 152
Box 7. Planning a soil conservation strategy 172
8 Crop and vegetation management 175
Box 8. Selecting vegetation for erosion control 197
9 Soil management 200
Box 9. Tillage erosion 210
10 Mechanical methods of erosion control 212
Box 10. Laying out terraces and waterways 241
11 Implementation 244
Box 11. Land Care 254
12 The way ahead 257
References 262
Acknowledgements 297
Index 299
