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Encyclopedia of Soil Science

Product Description: Â New and Improved Global Edition: Three-Volume Set A ready reference addressing a multitude of soil and soil management concerns, the highly anticipated and widely expanded third edition of Encyclopedia of Soil Science now spans three volumes and covers ground on a global scale...read more

By Rattan Lal

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Hardcover:

9780849338304 | 2 edition (CRC Pr I Llc, January 30, 2006), cover price $810.00 | About this edition: Compiled by more than 400 experts, the Encyclopedia of Soil Science, Second Edition covers all branches of soil science including pedology, mineralogy, physics, soil mechanics, hydrology, chemistry, biology, ecology and management, and restoration of problem/degraded soils.

9780849350542 | 2 edition (CRC Pr I Llc, December 5, 2005), cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Upholding the high standard of quality set by the previous edition, this Second Edition is comprised of a vast array of new and updated articles showcasing the latest research and practices in the chemistry, physics, biology, and analysis of soils, soil quality, agricultural and sustainable development, environmental quality, natural resource management, and ecology.

9780849350511 | Sof edition (CRC Pr I Llc, December 5, 2005), cover price $660.00 | About this edition: Upholding the high standard of quality set by the previous edition, this Second Edition, now in two volumes, offers a vast array of new and updated peer-reviewed articles showcasing the latest research and practices in the chemistry, physics, biology, and analysis of soils, soil quality, agricultural and sustainable development, environmental quality, natural resource management, and ecology.

9780824708467 | Package edition (Marcel Dekker Inc, November 1, 2002), cover price $395.00 | About this edition: Covering all branches of soil science - from mineralogy and physics to soil management and restoration - this extensive reference outlines the agricultural, environmental, industrial and cultural components and processes that affect soil productivity.

9780824706340 | Marcel Dekker Inc, November 1, 2002, cover price $420.00 | About this edition: PRINT/ONLINE PRICING OPTIONS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST ATe-reference@taylorandfrancis.

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Carbon Sequestration in Forest Ecosystems

By Rattan Lal

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Hardcover:

9789048132652 | Springer Verlag, November 1, 2009, cover price $259.00

Paperback:

9789400791091 | Springer Verlag, November 20, 2014, cover price $259.00

Sustainable Intensification to Advance Food Security and Enhance Climate Resilience in Africa

By David O. Hansen (editor), David Kraybill (editor), Rattan Lal (editor), Dismas L. Mwaseba (editor) and Bal Ram Singh (editor)

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9783319093598 | Springer Verlag, October 27, 2014, cover price $229.00

Environmental Stress and Amelioration in Livestock Production

Product Description: Given the importance of livestock to the global economy, there is a substantial need for world-class reference material on the sustainable management of livestock in diverse eco-regions. With uncertain climates involving unpredictable extreme events (e...read more

By Rattan Lal (editor)

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9783642292040 | Springer Verlag, June 5, 2012, cover price $279.00 | About this edition: Given the importance of livestock to the global economy, there is a substantial need for world-class reference material on the sustainable management of livestock in diverse eco-regions.

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9783642443459 | Springer Verlag, July 18, 2014, cover price $279.00 | About this edition: Given the importance of livestock to the global economy, there is a substantial need for world-class reference material on the sustainable management of livestock in diverse eco-regions.

Soil Emission of Nitrous Oxide and Its Mitigation

Product Description: Nitrous oxide gas is a long-lived relatively active greenhouse gas (GHG) with an atmospheric lifetime of approximately 120 years, and heat trapping effects about 310 times more powerful than carbon dioxide per molecule basis. It contributes about 6% of observed global warming...read more

By Rattan Lal

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9789400753631 | Springer Verlag, November 12, 2012, cover price $159.00 | About this edition: Nitrous oxide gas is a long-lived relatively active greenhouse gas (GHG) with an atmospheric lifetime of approximately 120 years, and heat trapping effects about 310 times more powerful than carbon dioxide per molecule basis.

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9789400798809 | Springer Verlag, December 14, 2014, cover price $159.00 | About this edition: Nitrous oxide gas is a long-lived relatively active greenhouse gas (GHG) with an atmospheric lifetime of approximately 120 years, and heat trapping effects about 310 times more powerful than carbon dioxide per molecule basis.

Soil Water and Agronomic Productivity

By Rattan Lal (editor) and B. A. Stewart (editor)

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9781439850794 | CRC Pr I Llc, June 19, 2012, cover price $154.95

World Soil Resources and Food Security

Product Description: SoilâThe Basis of All Terrestrial Life Ancient civilizations and culturesâMayan, Aztec, Mesopotamian, Indus, and Yangtzeâwere built on good soils, surviving only as long as soils had the capacity to support them. In the twenty-first century, productive soil is still the engine of economic development and essential to human well-being...read more

By Rattan Lal (editor) and B. A. Stewart (editor)

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9781439844502 | CRC Pr I Llc, September 13, 2011, cover price $154.95 | About this edition: SoilâThe Basis of All Terrestrial Life Ancient civilizations and culturesâMayan, Aztec, Mesopotamian, Indus, and Yangtzeâwere built on good soils, surviving only as long as soils had the capacity to support them.

Principles of Soil Conservation and Management

Product Description: “Principles of Soil Management and Conservation” comprehensively reviews the state-of-knowledge on soil erosion and management. It discusses in detail soil conservation topics in relation to soil productivity, environment quality, and agronomic production...read more

By Rattan Lal

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9781402087080 | Springer Verlag, November 3, 2008, cover price $339.00 | About this edition: âPrinciples of Soil Management and Conservationâ comprehensively reviews the state-of-knowledge on soil erosion and management.

Paperback:

9789048179626 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, November 24, 2010), cover price $339.00 | About this edition: “Principles of Soil Management and Conservation” comprehensively reviews the state-of-knowledge on soil erosion and management.

9789048185290 | 1 edition (Springer Verlag, January 15, 2010), cover price $129.00 | About this edition: âPrinciples of Soil Management and Conservationâ comprehensively reviews the state-of-knowledge on soil erosion and management.

Climate Change and Food Security in South Asia

Product Description: This book addresses an important topic of food security in South Asia with specific reference to climate change. Of the 1 billion food insecure people in the world, more than 30% are in South Asia. The problem of food insecurity may be exacerbated by the projected climate change especially because of the water scarcity caused by rapid melting of the glaciers in the Himalayas and increase in variability in monsoonal rains and frequency of extreme events...read more

By S. M. A. Faiz (editor), Khadakar R. Islam (editor), Rattan Lal (editor), A. H. M. Mustafizur Rahman (editor) and Mannava V. K. Sivakumar (editor)

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9789048195152 | Springer Verlag, September 29, 2010, cover price $279.00 | About this edition: This book addresses an important topic of food security in South Asia with specific reference to climate change.

Food Security and Soil Quality

Product Description: Just five years ago, it was generally believed that the number of food insecure people in the world was on continuous decline. Unfortunately, widespread soil degradation along with resistance to recommended agronomic practices, and little attempt to restore degraded soils have conspired with significant droughts (in regions that could least tolerate them) to swell the ranks of the food insecure to over a billion people...read more

By Rattan Lal (editor)

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9781439800577 | 1 edition (CRC Pr I Llc, June 10, 2010), cover price $167.95 | About this edition: Just five years ago, it was generally believed that the number of food insecure people in the world was on continuous decline.

Soil Quality and Biofuel Production

Product Description: From its humble beginning in the late 19th centuryâwhen Henry Fordâs first car was designed to run on ethanolâbiofuel production has been on the rise with more than 26 billion liters produced in the U.S. in 2007. Ethanol made from biomass (rather than grains) holds great promise, including numerous economic and environmental benefits...read more

By Rattan Lal (editor)

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9781439800737 | 1 edition (CRC Pr I Llc, December 17, 2009), cover price $159.95 | About this edition: From its humble beginning in the late 19th centuryâwhen Henry Fordâs first car was designed to run on ethanolâbiofuel production has been on the rise with more than 26 billion liters produced in the U.

Carbon Sequestration in Soils of Latin America

Product Description: Discover the latest available knowledge on ways to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere!The problem of quickly mounting CO2 emissions in the fast-developing Latin American region was addressed in a symposium held in Piracicaba, Brazil, in June 2004...read more

By Martial Bernoux (editor), Carlos C. Cerri (editor), Eduardo Cerri (editor), Jorge Etchevers (editor) and Rattan Lal (editor)

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9781560221364 | CRC Pr I Llc, July 5, 2006, cover price $94.95 | About this edition: Discover the latest available knowledge on ways to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere!

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9781560221371 | CRC Pr I Llc, July 5, 2006, cover price $68.95 | About this edition: Discover the latest available knowledge on ways to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere!

Soil Erosion And Carbon Dynamics

By Bernard Barthes (editor), Christian Feller (editor) and Rattan Lal (editor)

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9781566706889 | CRC Pr I Llc, December 8, 2005, cover price $209.95

Miscellaneous:

9780203491935 | CRC Pr I Llc, December 9, 2005, cover price $149.95

Encyclopedia of Soil Science: Online-print Version

Product Description: "Encyclopedia of Soil Science, Second Edition".

By Rattan Lal

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9780849350528 | 2 edition (CRC Pr I Llc, December 5, 2005), cover price $786.00 | About this edition: "Encyclopedia of Soil Science, Second Edition".

Soil Degradation in the United States: Extent, Severity, and Trends

Product Description: Soil Degradation in the United States: Extent, Severity, and Trends examines the magnitude and severity of soil degradation by different processes in the U.S., including water erosion, wind erosion, C depletion, soil compaction, salt build-up, and soil contamination...read more

By T. Iivari, J. M. Kimble, Rattan Lal (editor) and T. M. Sobecki

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9781566705349 | CRC Pr I Llc, September 1, 2003, cover price $231.00 | About this edition: Soil Degradation in the United States: Extent, Severity, and Trends examines the magnitude and severity of soil degradation by different processes in the U.

Principles of Soil Physics

Product Description: Principles of Soil Physics examines the impact of the physical, mechanical, and hydrological properties and processes of soil on agricultural production, the environment, and sustainable use of natural resources. The text incorporates valuable assessment methods, graphs, problem sets, and tables from recent studies performed around the globe and offers an abundance of tables, photographs, and easy-to-follow equations in every chapter...read more

By Rattan Lal

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Hardcover:

9780824753245 | CRC Pr I Llc, May 1, 2004, cover price $125.95

Miscellaneous:

9780824751272 | Marcel Dekker Inc, May 28, 2004, cover price $113.00 | About this edition: Principles of Soil Physics examines the impact of the physical, mechanical, and hydrological properties and processes of soil on agricultural production, the environment, and sustainable use of natural resources.

Sustainable Agriculture And the International Rice-wheat System

By Rattan Lal

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9780824754914 | CRC Pr I Llc, May 1, 2004, cover price $275.00

Miscellaneous:

9780824755324 | Marcel Dekker Inc, May 24, 2004, cover price $218.00

Introduction to Soil Physics: Properties and Processes

Product Description: This textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in agricultural and environmental sciences describes soil physical properties in relation to plant growth and environmental quality.

By Rattan Lal and Manoj Shukla

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9781566704779 | Lewis Pub, December 1, 2003, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: This textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in agricultural and environmental sciences describes soil physical properties in relation to plant growth and environmental quality.

Food Security and Environmental Quality in the Developing World

Product Description: Can developing countries meet the food requirements of their growing populations without jeopardizing a natural resource base that is already under great stress?Can increases in food production achieved in the past two decades be sustained in the next two decades?Can developing countries achieve freedom from hunger and malnutrition for their entire populations?How can food security be reconciled with environment quality in an industrializing society?Leading authorities, from soil scientists to economists, address these critical questions in Food Security and Environmental Quality in the Developing World...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David Hansen, Rattan Lal (editor), Steven Slack and Norman Uphoff

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9781566705943 | CRC Pr I Llc, July 1, 2002, cover price $253.00 | About this edition: Can developing countries meet the food requirements of their growing populations without jeopardizing a natural resource base that is already under great stress?

Soil Carbon Sequestration and the Greenhouse Effect

Product Description: Worldwide concern about increases in greenhouse gases and their potential effects on global climate change has brought attention to what scientists are calling the missing C question. This publication delivers information on soil C sequestration in croplands, range lands, forest lands, and set-aside or CRP lands in the United States and Canada...read more

By Rattan Lal (editor)

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9780891188360 | Amer Society of Agronomy, May 1, 2001, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Worldwide concern about increases in greenhouse gases and their potential effects on global climate change has brought attention to what scientists are calling the missing C question.

Global Climate Change and Pedogenic Carbonates

Product Description: The atmospheric concentration of natural greenhouse gases has increased steadily since the industrial revolution. Soil scientists and ecologists recognize the importance of the global carbon cycle and its role in the greenhouse effect...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By H. Eswaran (editor), J. M. Kimble (editor), Rattan Lal (editor) and B. A. Stewart (editor)

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9781566704588 | Lewis Pub, September 1, 1999, cover price $72.95 | About this edition: The atmospheric concentration of natural greenhouse gases has increased steadily since the industrial revolution.

Integrated Watershed Management in the Global Ecosystem

Product Description: Focusing on the technical, social, and economic issues involved in watershed management, this interdisciplinary author team focuses on bettering land use practices and the condition of soil water resources.Integrated Watershed Management in the Global Ecosystem is a volume composed from an international symposium of the world's leading experts and practitioners in soil and water conservation exploring an "ecosystem-based" management approach to the problem...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Rattan Lal (editor) and Soil and Water Conservation Society (U. S.) International Affairs commi (other contributor)

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9780849307027 | CRC Pr I Llc, August 1, 1999, cover price $172.95 | About this edition: Focusing on the technical, social, and economic issues involved in watershed management, this interdisciplinary author team focuses on bettering land use practices and the condition of soil water resources.

Management of Carbon Sequestration in Soil

Product Description: Agricultural activities considered responsible for an increase in CO2 levels in our atmosphere include: deforestation, biomass burning, tillage and intensive cultivation, and drainage of wetlands. However, agriculture can also be a solution to the problem in which carbon can be removed from the atmosphere and permanently sequestered into the soil...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By R. F. Follett (editor), J. M. Kimble (editor), Rattan Lal (editor) and B. A. Stewart (editor)

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9780849374425 | CRC Pr I Llc, November 1, 1997, cover price $159.95 | About this edition: Agricultural activities considered responsible for an increase in CO2 levels in our atmosphere include: deforestation, biomass burning, tillage and intensive cultivation, and drainage of wetlands.

Sustainable Management of Soil Resources in the Humid Tropics

By Rattan Lal

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Paperback:

9789280808766 | United Nations Univ, December 1, 1995, cover price $20.00

Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture in the Tropics: Proceedings of Two International Symposia Sponsored by Division A-6 of the American Society

Product Description: Book by Ragland, John

By Rattan Lal (editor) and John Ragland

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9780891181187 | Amer Society of Agronomy, December 1, 1993, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Book by Ragland, John

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