In the 1970’s, agriculture in the United States seemed to be booming. With an extra demand for crops, extra acres were taken on to increase production which was predicted to increase further with an ever-growing population. However, concerns were beginning to be raised over the adequacy of land for crops as potential croplands began to be converted into urban areas as well as the effects of soil erosion decreasing the quality of these croplands. Originally published in 1983, this study investigates the threats to crop productivity in the U.S. with a focus on human-made problems. This title will be of interest to students of environmental studies.

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Product Description: TO THE MODEL EVALUATION 1. MODELLING SOIL EROSION BY WATER l 2 John Boardman and David Favis-Mortlock 1 School of Geography and Environmental Change Unit Mansfield Road University of Oxford Oxford OX1 3TB UK 2 Environmental Change Unit University of Oxford 5 South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3UB UK Introduction This volume is the Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop 'Global Change: Modelling Soil Erosion by Water', which was held on II-14th September 1995, at the University of Oxford, UK...read more

Product Description: This book was first published in 1987 when land degradation was one of the major conservation issues of that decade. Australian scientists were at the fore in awakening world interest in this complex phenomenon and in contributing to debate...read more

Accelerated degradation of soils and surface waters produce increasing problems in many parts of the world. Within this context, the book addresses the topic Application of Physically Based Soil Erosion Models in order to present some essential tools for improving land-use strategies and conservation measures. Over the last 20 years, the need for more accurate assessments of soil losses and sediment yields has led to the development of some highly complex, process-based soil erosion models. In 14 papers, specialists from 5 European countries, the USA and Brazil report on practical applications of these models and give insight into the latest developments. This book will help to implement state-of-the-art soil erosion prediction technologies within soil and water conservation planning and assessment. Hence, the book should be of special interest to agricultural and environmental engineers, hydrologists, soil scientists and geoscientists.

Product Description: In the spring of 1935, the skies of New York and Washington, D.C., were darkened by windblown soils from farms of Texas and Oklahoma. Congressmen could taste the grit in their mouths as they listened to Hugh Hammond Bennett testify about the need for a national soil conservation program...read more

This fully revised and updated edition continues to provide a comprehensive treatment of soil erosion processes and their control, with a practical approach to the design of soil conservation methods. This edition includes material on the socio-economic context, new developments in modelling techniques, and soil erosion and conservation is set in a broader environmental context.

Product Description: A comprehensive engineering guide to theory and design practices for the control, utilization, and management of water in agriculture, with emphasis on scientific principles. Integrates into a single volume engineering practices for solving problems relating to erosion control, flood control, drainage, and irrigation...read more

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Product Description: Approaches to research on the causes and impacts of soil erosion have changed significantly over recent years. Whereas biophysical research traditionally utilized small, carefully-managed erosion plots, models and methods are now available to study impacts of broad scale management on the hydrology and water quality of catchments and even river basins...read more

Product Description: Advances in Soil and Water Conservation provides an in-depth, scholarly treatment of the most important developments and influences shaping soil and water conservation in the last 50 years. The book addresses the technological developments of erosion processes, methods for their control, policy and social forces shaping the research agenda, and future directions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Following an alalysis of small farmers' strategies and modern strategies for erosion control, this document presents an approach of land husbandry based on improved use of land and labour. The study uses 30 years of research, primarily in French-speaking Africa, and includes ten case-studies from West Africa, mountainous regions (Haiti, Ecuador, Rwanda and Algeria) and a temperate region (France)...read more

The West African Sahel is the transition zone between the Saharadesert in the north of Africa and the more humid Sudanian zones in the south. Although diverse in many ways, the Sahelian countries have the common problem of a fragile agricultural sector. This predicament is mainly caused by low inherent soil fertility, limited and unpredictable rainfall, frequent droughts, and wind erosion that accelerates soil degradation and desertification, compounded by To assure food production in the future, means rapidly growing populations. of declining soil fertility and increasing must be found to offset the trends soil degradation through wind erosion. This is a challenge for agricultural research. Since 1985, the Special Research Program 308 'Adapted Farming in West Africa' at the UniversityofHohenheimin collaboration with the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Niger, has pursued the developmentof agricultural innovations for smallholder farmers in one of the most ecologically fragile regions of the world. The prevention of soil degradation, the restoration and maintenance of soil fertility, and the increase of land and labor productivity are key objectives of this multidisci­ plinary research program. From the beginning, a major focus of research has been wind erosion.

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With the growing world population and the need for more food, soil conservation has a vital role to play. This book is a standard work on the subject and has been revised and updated to incorporate all the latest information. It provides information on recent advances such as: the greater emphasis on sound land and farming methods; the importance of involving the farmer at all stages; and the need for low-cost, low-labour methods. The author shows how research, theory and practice can be applied in the developing countries, and presents the engineering approach to soil conservation in a simple way.

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Product Description: Papers from the November 1992 symposium identify climatic, soil, and biological parameters that control water erosion processes, and summarize current research in the field of erosion modeling for rangeland conditions. They covers topics such as predicting disposition of eroded sediments within a watershed and at off-site locations, and t Water Erosion Prediction Model, and include case studies of areas in the US...read more