Sustainable Management Of Soil Organic Matter

With the rapidly emerging interest from many sectors of society in sustainable development, there is a realization that an understanding of soil management is of fundamental importance to the debate. Before the latter part of the 20th century, soil was seen as a matrix from which food could be produced and on which wastes could be disposed or buildings constructed. Soils research focused primarily on how an understanding of relevant processes could be applied to optimize food production. Although soil protection has, for many decades, been an issue with which scientists and land managers have been concerned, it has focused primarily on the need to prevent soil loss through erosion rather than to enhance soil quality through management per se. During the 1980s and 1990s, a change in attitude to soil began to take place. Concern about environmental issues such as climate change, and the physical and chemical degradation of soils was accompanied by an appreciation of the need to protect soils in their own right in order to underpin efforts to develop society in a way which is sus-tainable over the long term. Many countries are now developing statutory soil protection policies in an analogous way to those applied to air and water. There is a substantial body of research (some of which is reported in this book) that has defined the importance of understanding soil quality as an issue. Thus a practice of land use that is sustainable needs not only to preserve soil materials but also to maintain or enhance various attributes of its quality. The organic matter content of soils and the components of the organic matter itself play a vital role in defining this quality.

جهت استعلام قيمت و سفارش چاپ اين محصول لطفا با انتشارات گنج حضور تماس حاصل فرماييد