Vanishing Lands A World Survey Of Soil Erosion By Gv Jacks Ro Whyte
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: Graham Vernon Jacks |
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Total Pages |
: 332 |
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: 1939 |
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: LCCN:39028020 |
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: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vanishing Lands; a World Survey of Soil Erosion, by G.V. Jacks & R.O. Whyte by : Graham Vernon Jacks
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: Graham Vernon Jacks |
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Total Pages |
: 396 |
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: 1972 |
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: UCSC:32106002674056 |
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: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vanishing Lands by : Graham Vernon Jacks
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: G. V. Jacks |
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: Forgotten Books |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 2017-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0332313379 |
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: 9780332313375 |
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: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vanishing Lands by : G. V. Jacks
Excerpt from Vanishing Lands: A World Survey of Soil Erosion Soil conservation is inseparable from good husbandry. 'vertical' and 'lateral' erosion. Conservation in humid regions. Early con servation by terracing in semi-arid regions. The first principle in conserving semi-arid soils. The evolution of the modern terrace. Contour farming. Mechanical and biological soil conservation. Pre venting erosion with plants. Natural soil conservation. Conserva tion of arable land. The use of weeds. Cover crops. Rotations. Strip-cropping. Individual, communal and regional soil conserva tion. Floods and flood control. Limitations of engineering control. Soil conservation and floods. River catchments as conservation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author |
: Benno P Warkentin |
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: Elsevier |
Total Pages |
: 573 |
Release |
: 2006-04-18 |
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: 9780080477879 |
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: 0080477879 |
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: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Footprints in the Soil by : Benno P Warkentin
The history of science discipline is contributing valuable knowledge of the culture of soil understanding, of the conditions in society that fostered the ideas, and of why they developed in certain ways. This book is about the progressive "footprints made by scientists in the soil. It contains chapters chosen from important topics in the development of soil science, and tells the story of the people and the exciting ideas that contributed to our present understanding of soils. Initiated by discussions within the Soil Science Society of America and the International Union of Soil Sciences, this book uniquely illustrates the significance of soils to our society. It is planned for soils students, for various scientific disciplines, and for members of the public who show an increasing interest in soil. This book allows us to answer the questions: "How do we know what we know about soils? and "How did one step or idea lead to the next one?The chapters are written by an international group of authors, each with special interests, bound together by the central theme of soils and how we came to our present understanding of soils. Each concentrate on soil knowledge in the western world and draw primarily on written accounts available in English and European languages. Academics, graduate students, researchers and practitioners will gain new insights from these studies of how ideas in soil science and understanding of uses of soils developed.* Discusses tracing soils knowledge accumulated from Roman times, first by soil users and after 1800s by scientists* Offers ideas about how soils knowledge was influenced by the social context and by human needs* Combines the history of ideas with scientific knowledge of soils* Written by chapter authors who combine subject matter expertise with knowledge of practical soil uses, and provide numerous references for further study of the relevant literature
Author |
: Pierre Desrochers |
Publisher |
: Public Affairs |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2012-06-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781586489403 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1586489402 |
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: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Locavore's Dilemma by : Pierre Desrochers
Deconstructs the "eat local" ethos and argues that it distracts people from solving serious global food issues and explains how the elimination of agriculture subsidies and opening international trade offers a sustainable solution.
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: Howard Gordon Wilshire |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 52 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015095144666 |
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: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Geologic Processes at the Land Surface by : Howard Gordon Wilshire
Author |
: Howard G. Wilshire |
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: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 634 |
Release |
: 2008-06-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199881666 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199881669 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis The American West at Risk by : Howard G. Wilshire
The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States - America's legendary, even mythical, frontier. When discovered by European explorers and later settlers, the west boasted rich soils, bountiful fisheries, immense, dense forests, sparkling streams, untapped ore deposits, and oil bonanzas. It now faces depletion of many of these resources, and potentially serious threats to its few "renewable" resources. The importance of this story is that preserving lands has a central role for protecting air and water quality, and water supplies--and all support a healthy living environment. The idea that all life on earth is connected in a great chain of being, and that all life is connected to the physical earth in many obvious and subtle ways, is not some new-age fad, it is scientifically demonstrable. An understanding of earth processes, and the significance of their biological connections, is critical in shaping societal values so that national land use policies will conserve the earth and avoid the worst impacts of natural processes. These connections inevitably lead science into the murkier realms of political controversy and bureaucratic stasis. Most of the chapters in The American West at Risk focus on a human land use or activity that depletes resources and degrades environmental integrity of this resource-rich, but tender and slow-to-heal, western U.S. The activities include forest clearing for many purposes; farming and grazing; mining for aggregate, metals, and other materials; energy extraction and use; military training and weapons manufacturing and testing; road and utility transmission corridors; recreation; urbanization; and disposing of the wastes generated by everything that we do. We focus on how our land-degrading activities are connected to natural earth processes, which act to accelerate and spread the damages we inflict on the land. Visit www.theamericanwestatrisk.com to learn more about the book and its authors.
Author |
: Paul S. Sutter |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2015-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820334011 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820334014 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies by : Paul S. Sutter
Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon,” preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental disaster. While little known today, Providence Canyon enjoyed a modicum of fame in the 1930s. During that decade, local boosters attempted to have Providence Canyon protected as a national park, insisting that it was natural. At the same time, national and international soil experts and other environmental reformers used Providence Canyon as the apotheosis of human, and particularly southern, land abuse. Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies uses the unlikely story of Providence Canyon—and the 1930s contest over its origins and meaning—to recount the larger history of dramatic human-induced soil erosion across the South and to highlight the role that the region and its erosive agricultural history played in the rise of soil science and soil conservation in America. More than that, though, the book is a meditation on the ways in which our persistent mental habit of separating nature from culture has stunted our ability to appreciate places like Providence Canyon and to understand the larger history of American conservation.
Author |
: Piers Blaikie |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 201 |
Release |
: 2016-05-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317268383 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317268385 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries by : Piers Blaikie
First published in 1985. This book examines wide variety of ways in which environmental deterioration, in particular soil erosion, can be viewed and the implicit political judgements that often inform them. Using the context of developing countries, where the effects tend to be more acute due to underdevelopment and climatic factors, this work aims to examine this source of uncertainty and make explicit the underlying assumptions in the debate about soil erosion. It also rejects the notion that soil erosion is a politically neutral issue and argues that conservation requires fundamental social change. This title will be of interest to students of environmental and developmental studies.
Author |
: Robert Alexander Brady |
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: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 512 |
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: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis Oraganization, Automation, and Society by : Robert Alexander Brady