Ángel Faz Cano is Professor of Pedology at the Agricultural Science and Technology Department, and Director of the Research Group at the Technical University of Cartagena, Spain. Recent Research activities includes agricultural soil use capability; soil salinization in agricultural systems evaluation and mapping in WRB Classification system and the USDA Taxonomy; soil use and global change, carbon balance under different soil management systems. Attended more than 75mainly International meeting and presented more than 170 papers. He organized 6th International Meeting on Soils with Mediterranean Type of Climate in Barcelona, Spain (1999); Chairman International Symposium on Sustainable Use and Management of Soils in Arid and Semiarid Regions in 2002, Chairman Fourth International Conference on Land Degradation in 2004. He visited University of Saskatchewan.Canada; Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Mexico; Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, México; Colegio de Posgraduados, México; Universiteit van Ámsterdam; Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile; University of Pennsilvania, USA; Oregon State University, USA, and University of Madison, Harran University in Turkey. He has published more than 35 reviewed articles in Chemosphere, Science of the total environment, Land Degradation and Development, Water Air and Soil Pollution, Canadian Journal of Soil Science, Catena, International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation, Clays and Clay Minerals. Arid Soil Research and Rehabilitation. He was CoEditor of Catena Verlag: Faz Cano, A., Ortiz, R. y Mermut, A.R. Sustainable Use and Management of Soils –Arid and Semiarid Regions- Advances in Geology 36 catena verlag, and five proceedings books.