Foreword

Preface and Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction

Using the soil DPSIR framework---driving forces, pressures, state, impacts, and responses---for evaluating land degradation

W.E.H. Blum

Ecological soil standards

I.D. Hannam

Setting the scene

Land and civilization: An historical perspective

A.S.R. Juo

L.P. Wilding

Land degradation: An overview

H. Eswaran

R. Lal

P.F. Reich

Food production and environmental degradation

E.M. Bridges

L.R. Oldeman

What happens on earth in one minute?

M. Movillon

B. Richards

H. Tumawis

Driving forces and pressures

Demographic transition, resource management, and institutional change

D. Southgate

Land pressure and soil nutrient depletion in sub-Saharan Africa

P. Drechsel

F.W.T. Penning De Vries

Population and land quality on tropical hillsides

S.R. Templeton

S.J. Scherr

Adoption of soil conservation practices in developing countries: Policy and institutional factors

S. Pandey

Giant tiger shrimp cultivation and the salinization of arable land in Thailand

Rungsun Im-Erb

Pramote Yamclee

Suthat Prosayakul

Prasit Tanprapas

Pirach Pongwichian

Causes and Impacts of land degradation in the arid environment of Kuwait

S.A. Shahid

S.A.S. Omar

Climate change and land degradation in Iceland

U. Hellden

R. Olafsdottir

State of the world's land resources

Land quality and food security in Asia

F.H. Beinroth

H. Eswaran

P.F. Reich

Land degradation in Malaysis

J. Shamshuddin

Soil degrdation and land use: A case study from India

G. Byju

T. Varghese

Land degradation and land use policy in Vietnam

N. Van Bo

T. Phien

N.Tu Siem

Land resource stresses and desertification in Africa

P.F. Reich

S.T. Numbem

R.A. Almaraz

H. Eswaran

An assessment of land degradation in Thailand

Susan Kunaporn

Pichai Wichaidit

Taweesak Vearaslip

Kanitasri Hoontrakul

H. Eswaran

Land resource stress and desertification vulnerability in Thailand

Pojanee Moncharoen

Taweesak Vearasilp

Kanitasri Hoontrakul

H. Eswaran

Land degradation in Bangladesh

Md.M. Rahman

G. Mostafa

S.Razia

J.U. Shoaib

Landscape-scale changes in soil properties between 1967 and 1995 in Bangladesh

Md.M. Ali

T. Wakatsuki

Soil degradation in Sri Lanka

A.N. Jayakody

Land degradation in Hungary

A. Kertesz

Soil acidification under Stylosanthes seed production systems in Thailand and Australia

A. Noble

Sawaeng Ruaysoongnern

I. Willett

B. Palmer

Soil degradation through deforestation in Petchabun, Thailand

Boonma Deesaeng

Cholada Temkunatham

Somchai Onasa

Sangchan Srisaichua

Rehabilitation of the organic carbon pool in red soils of China

Li Zhongpei

Zhang Taolin

Impacts on society and the environment

The future food security and economic consequences of soil degradation in the developing world

S.J. Scherr

Land degradation, food security, and agro-biodiversity---examining an old problem in a new way

A. Tengberg

M. Stocking

Productivity growth and resource degradation in Pakistan's Punjab

M. Ali

D. Byerlee

Economic implications of land degradation in a large irrigation project in India

B.V.C. Reddy

Honnaiah

L. Achoth

Valuing the off-site effects of land degradation

T.Enters

Impacts of land clearing on biodiversity and environmental quality in the Western Australian Wheatbelt

A. Glanznig

M. Kennedy

The global environmental impacts of agricultural land degradation in developing countries

S. Pagiola

A critical approach to indications of degradation: A case study from northeastern Botswana

A.C. Dahlberg

Mass movements in East Africa: Transient or long-term land degradation?

L.O. Westerberg

C. Christiansson

Tools for monitoring and assessment

Linking methodologies for assessing land resources, their problems and possible solutions at small scales

L.R. Oldeman

G.W.J. Vanlynden

Spatial natural resource monitoring in Mpumalanga Province of South Africa

K.J. Wessels

H.M. Van Den Berg

D.J. Pretorius

Tools for identification, assessment, and monitoring of land degradation

Apisit Eiumnoh

Remote sensing and GIS-aided land degradation monitoring: The case of Chi sub-watershed, Thailand

Apisit Eiumnoh

R.P. Shrestha

Application of remote sensing techniques for the study of soil salinity in semi-arid Uzbekistan

E.I. Karavanova

D.P. Shrestha

D.S. Orlov

The economic appraisal of soil and water conservation measures

J. De Graaff

Assessing soil erosion and water pollution hazards associated with logging in New South Wales, Australia

N.A. Abraham

P.J. Fogarty

S.J. Beaman

Soil loss map of Thailand

Land Development Department Staff

Soil productivity rating for soil degradation assessment in the Philippines: A case study in Isabela Province

P.P. Evangelista

C.M. Nicolas

R.B. Carating

T. Ohkura

Y. Kato

Soil microbial community structure as an indicator of soil pollution caused by gasoline spills

I.S. Kim

V.N. Ivanov

E.V. Stabnokova

Participatory GIS as a tool for land use planning in northern Thailand

O. Puginier

Conservation and rehabilitation

Land degradation and renewal in the Gran Chaco of South America

P.C. Huszar

E.H. Bucher

Strategies to address land degradation issues in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas

R. Allen

Thailand's response to land degradation: The need to control soil erosion

Samran Sompatpanit

Uncertain steps? Terraces in the tropics

W. Critchley

Samran Sombatpanit

S.M. Medina

Land degradation and soil conservation in China

Li Rui

Yang Qinke

Zhang Xiaoping

Li Zhiguang

Occurrence, prevention, and amelioration of soil salinity

P.A. Mendoza

Yang Jingsong

Terdsak Subhasaram

Using Sloping Agricultural Land Technology (Salt) for soil management on Sri Lanka tea lands

P.B. Ekanayake

Sludge utilization in degraded and agricultural land

Orathai Sukreeyapongse

Supamard Panichsakpatana

Sylvipasture system to rehabilitate degraded grassland

D. Santoso

Sukristiyonubowo

I.G.P. Wigena

E. Santosa

No-tillage system in Parana State, south Brazil

A. Calegari

A participatory approach towards integrated soil management

S. Kauffman

Sustainable rehabilitation of degraded volcanic ash soils in Mexico

U. Fechter-Escamilla

G. Werner

Institutional innovations

Incentives for soil conservation

T. Enters

Land tenure and soil conservation---new evidence from Southeast Asia

A. Neef

Chapika Sangkapitux

Application of a land management model to address land degradation in New South Wales, Australia

I.J. Packer

The catchment approach to soil and water conservation in Kenya

J.K. Kiara

Conservation of biodiversity through Landcare

M. Sutherland

B. Scarsbrick

Farmer-led community institutions to reverse land degradation in the 21st century

D.P. Garrity

Environmental regeneration for poverty eradication in India

A. Agarwal

Participatory technology development for sustainable land management

H.-D. Bechstedt

Law and policy

A global view of the law and policy to manage land degradation

I.D. Hannam

Land degradation and native vegetation clearance in the 1990s: Addressing biodiversity loss in Australia

A. Glanznig

M. Kennedy

Law and policy to manage land degradation in the Philippines

R.N. Concepcion

G.P. Nilo

Conservation policy and socioeconomic development in Russia during the 20th century

A. Gennadiyev

Strategies for rehabilitation of degraded land in Vietnam

N. Van Bo

T. Phien

N. Tu Siem

Asialand: A policy for sloping land management

Adisak Sajjapongse

Ty Phommasack

Laws and policy to manage land degradation in Malaysia

J. Shamshuddin

Laws and policy for managing land degradation in Thailand

Sopon Chomchan

Waste minimization strategies in the USA

Liu-Hsiung Chuang

International initiatives

Land degradation and international environmental law

I.D. Hannam

B.W. Boer

The World Soil Charter

D. Sanders

Land degradation and biodiversity conservation: International challenges

A.J. Rupp

Land degradation: Information needs and challenges to research

F.W.T. Penning de Vries

Investments in land improvement by the Asian Development Bank

D. Nangju

Rangeland development for the rural poor in developing countries: The experience of IFAD

A.E. Sidahmed

Lessons from World Bank natural resource management projects

M. Mani

A. Liebenthal

The Soil Fertility Initiative for Sub-Saharan Africa

J. Farah

M. Toure

WOCAT: World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies

H. Hurni

The Asia Soil Conservation Network for the Humid Tropics (ASOCON)

F.J. Dent

Future responses

Index

The Editors