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Waste Composting for Urban
and Peri-urban Agriculture: Closing the Rural-Urban Nutrient Cycle in
Sub-Saharan
Rapid urbanization has created a
major challenge with regard to waste management and environmental protection.
However, turning organic waste into compost for use as an agricultural
fertilizer in peri-urban areas can ameliorate the problem. This is especially
significant in less developed countries, where food security is also a key
issue. This book is based on papers presented at a workshop held in
After an introductory chapter,
the following themes are addressed: (1) The potential use of waste-stream
products for soil amelioration in peril-urban interface agricultural production
systems (1 paper); (2) Economic, sociocultural and environmental considerations
((3 papers); (3) Turning urban waste into fertilizers: case studies from East
and West Africa (9 papers); (4) Modelling biomass and nutrient flows (5
papers); (5) Urban agriculture: international support and capacity building in
Africa (1 paper). The book closes with a chapter about research and development
priorities.
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Securing
the Harvest. Biotechnology,
Breeding and Seed Systems for African Crops. J. DeVries and G. Toenniessen.
CABI Publishing,
Softcover.
As the one remaining major world
region where agriculture has yet to be transformed from subsistence, low-yield
systems dependent on shifting cultivation to efficient modern systems capable
of producing regular surpluses, the question of crop improvement is especially
important to
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Nitrate and Man: Toxic,
Harmless or Beneficial? J.
l’Hirondel and J.L. l’Hirondel. CABI Publishing,
Nitrate is ubiquitous. It is
present in Water, soil, plants and food, and it is also a normal human
metabolite. The main external sources of nitrate are vegetables and drinking
water. This book examines the relationship between nitrates and human health.
Nitrate has been feared as the source of some serious diseases. This book sets
out research results to disprove these assumptions, and goes on to explore the
beneficial effects of nitrate in preventing infections, cancer and
cardiovascular diseases.
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The
Sustainable Management of Vertisols. IBSRAM
Proceedings No. 20. J.K. Syers, F.W.T.
Penning de Vries and P. Nyamudeza, editors. CABI Publishing,
Black cracking clay soils,
classified as Vertisols, are an important an important resource in the
subtropics and tropics. In
After four keynote and overview
papers, the publication contains eight country papers. In five papers attention
is given to international perspectives on the management of Vertisols.
Price: GBP 55.00; USD 100.00.
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Nitrogen
Fixation in Tropical Cropping Systems. Second
edition. K. Giller. CABI Publishing,
This second edition of the
highly successful book, first published in 1991, contains thoroughly updated
and revised material on the theory and practice of nitrogen fixation in
tropical cropping systems. Nitrogen fixation is especially important when
farmers are trying to minimize fertilizer use for cost or environmental
reasons. The significant research advances in the last decade on both the
fundamental and applied level are covered, including those relating to the
classification and description of N2-fixing bacteria and symbioses and the
processes of N2-fixation.
Price:
GBP 60.00; USD 110.00.
Planning
Agricultural Research: A Sourcebook. G.
Gijsbers, H. Hambly Odame, W. Janssen,
and G.
Meijerink, editors. CABI Publishing,
the use of plans to identify
strategic issues and to help organizations adjust to rapidly changing
conditions in the external environment. These ideas are important for
agricultural research organizations, which must balance the need to adjust to
changing circumstances with the long-term nature of agricultural research. The
book provides a variety of perspectives on agricultural research planning,
grouped into four sections dealing with the context of planning, planning
content, planning processes, and planning tools. A glossary provides an
overview of concepts and definitions.
Price: GBP 29.50; USD 55.00.
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Food
Security in Sub-Saharan
Sub-Saharan
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Organic
Recycling & Biofertilisation in
This book is published in the
FDCO’s series of reference and practical publications on various aspects of
mineral, organic and biofertilisers; nutrition of food grains, other field
crops and plantation crops through major and micronutrients from diverse
sources; analytical methods, non-traditional sectors of fertiliser use and
volumes on individual nutrients. The present volume has been prepared largely
to put in one place some of the current information on biofertilisers and
organic recycling in South Asia, covering
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Land Use and Cover Change. R.B.
Singh, J. Fox and Y. Himiyama, editors. Science Publishers,
Land-use and land-cover change
is a focal theme and emerging issue in the study of global environmental
change. Human modifications and alterations of the environment cause impacts on
the surface of the earth, threaten global sustainability and livelihood
systems, and contribute to changes in the biogeochemical cycles on the earth,
which in turn affect atmospheric levels of greenhouse and other trace gases.
Scientists working in this area of research have recently drawn attention to
the need to integrate research on monitoring land-use and land-cover change
from space with research on the socio-economic causes of these changes. Remote
sensing observations alone cannot explain the socio-economic and institutional
factors that cause land-use and land-cover change, nor can they identify the
factors that influence regional trends or local dynamics. These issues can only
be addresses by using population and other social science data in a comparative
framework. Geographic information systems are used to merge social science
variables spatially and temporally with physical science data. This analysis
must then be supplemented by field research in order to understand the
individual-level decision processes that produce the land-use and land-cover
change. At a meeting held in
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Knowing Where You’re Going. Information Systems for
Agricultural Research Management. R.
Vernon. International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR),
Agricultural researchers,
especially in developing countries, are facing serious problems in accessing
information. Scientific journals are becoming less and less affordable to most institutions.
Research is often inefficient: scientists pursue lines of research unaware that
the topic has already been covered in the past, because they have no access to
records of former research, even in their own country. Research managers
supervise programs and make decisions with insufficient information from within
their own research programs, and little or no information on external factors
that should have a crucial bearing on research priorities. But there is also
good news! Never before has there been such rapid development of information
and communication technologies. Capacities and speeds are increasing, while
prices are falling. The Internet has opened a vast range of information to
millions of users. CD-ROMs provide enormous capacity for cheap storage and
distribution of information, even to those without Internet access. Most of the
benefit of the information management revolution, however, accrues to the
developed countries, and the North-South gap in information access is
increasing. It is the target of this book to help reverse that trend. The
objective of this book is to provide agricultural research managers at all
levels, and information specialists within agricultural research organizations,
with a source of ideas, concepts, methodologies, explanations, and guidance in
information management within their respective roles. Part 1, covering about
one-third of the text, is aimed particularly at research managers and part 2 at
information managers. The complete text is also available free of charge from
the internet. See: www.isnar.cgiar.org/publications/mis_book.htm.
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Heavy
Metals Release in Soils. H.M. Selim and D.L. Sparks,
editors. Lewis Publishers, CRC Press LLC,
Characterizing the nature of
heavy metal release reactions, sorption mechanisms, and movement in the soil is
the main topic of this book. Because soils are heterogeneous, heavy metals in
soils can be involved in a series of complex chemical and biological interactions
including oxidation-reduction, precipitation and dissolution, volatilization,
and surface and solution phase complexation. The heterogeneous nature of the
different soil constituents adds to the complexity of interactions of heavy
metal species with the soil environment. In the first four chapters, the
primary focus in on transport processes and parameters which control the
mobility of heavy metals in contaminated and uncontaminated soils, assessment
of their potential for migration, and the impact on the soil environment.
Models that are often used to describe the reactivity and transport of heavy
metals in the soil system are described. The subsequent two chapters are
devoted to the kinetics of sorption-release processes in the soil environment.
Theoretical and experimental analyses of kinetic and reversible processes are
presented. The next two chapters deal with the identification of the major soil
parameters affecting metal lability in soils, a requisite to the prediction of
metal behavior and establishment of appropriate soil screening levels. The next
chapter discusses the sorption and release processes of selenate in various
soils typical of the Mediterranean area. In the last chapters, complexation and
speciation processes and their influence on heavy metal mobility are discussed
in detail.
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Sustaining
Soil Fertility in
The rapid growth of the
population of
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Humic
Substances and Chemical Contaminants. C.E.
Clapp, M.H.B. Hayes, N. Senesi, P.R. Bloom and P.M. Jardine, editors. Soil
Science Society of
There have been numerous
publications that deal with humic-anthropogenic and humic-metal interactions,
but there has not been a single treatise with all aspects of these
interactions. The lack of such a book provided the inspiration for this
publication. It is divided into four sections. The first section covers
composition and structure of humic substances. The theme for the second section
is the interaction with xenobiotics. The chapters take account of
adsorption-desorption phenomena involving organic chemicals and humic
fractions. The focus the third section in on interaction with metals. Emphasis
here is on modeling metal-humic complexation, and due attention is given also
to modern spectroscopic analytical procedures, and to applications of nuclear
magnetic resonance for investigations of the metal/humic binding mechanisms.
The final section examines transport and modeling. This section is of prime
environmental importance, especially with regard to the tracing of a
contaminant to its source. The CD-ROM combines computational chemistry,
scanning probe microscopy and animated virtual reality to allow readers to
visualize the chemical reactivity of humic substances in ways we’ve never been
able to before.
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Sustainability
of Agricultural Systems in Transition.
ASA Special Publication Number 64. W.A. Payne, D.R. Keeney and
S.C. Rao, editors. American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of
Agriculture has changes during
the last few decades, and will change even more during the next few. Modern
agriculture faces several daunting challenges, including global food security,
persistent poverty, low commodity prices, dwindling land and water resources,
environmental protection, and meeting the demand of diverse social, commercial
and political movements. Because of the changing demands placed upon
agriculture, and the many technological advances in feed, food and fiber
production, agricultural systems of the world are ever in transition. To become
sustainable, agricultural systems ought to transition towards ones that are
characterized by favorable economics, conservation of resources, preservation
of ecology, and promotion of social justice. These issues, with case studies
from various countries, are addressed in this publication. Added in the
publication are relevant papers presented at a concurrent symposium entitled
Food Security and Sustainable Development for the 21st Century in
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Estimating
Uncertainty in Soil Models (Pedometrics ’99) I.O.A.
Odeh and A.B. McBratney, editors. Special Issue of Geoderma,
volume 103, nos. 1-2. September 2001, 229 p. Elsevier,
This issue of Geoderma contains
some of the papers presented at the Third Conference of the Working Group on
Pedometrics (WG-PM) of the IUSS, held on September 27-29, 1999, at the
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Predicting
Land-use Change. A. Veldkamp and E. Lambin,
guest editors. Special Issue of Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, vol.
85, nos. 1-3, June 2001, 292 p. Elsevier, Amsterdam, London. ISSN 0167-8809.
Land-use change modeling, especially
if done in a spatially-explicit, integrated and multi-scale manner, is an
important technique for the projection of alternative pathways into the future,
for conducting experiments that test our understanding of key processes in land
use changes. Land-use change models should represent part of the complexity of
land-use systems. They offer the possibility to test the sensitivity of
land-use patterns to changes in selected variables. They also allow testing of
the stability of linked social and ecological systems, through scenario
building. To assess current progress in this field, a workshop on spatially
explicit land-use/land-cover models was organized within the scope of the
Land-Use and Land Cover Change project (LUCC). The main developments presented
in this special issue concern progress in: (1) modeling and drivers of land use
change; (2) modeling of scale dependency of drivers of land use change; (3)
modeling progress in predicting location versus quantity of land use change;
and (5) the incorporation of biophysical feedbacks in land-use change models.
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XVth ISTRO Conference on
Tillage at the Threshold of the 21st Century: Looking Ahead. W.B.
Voorhees, guest editor. Special Issue of Soil & Tillage Research, volume
61, issues 1-2, August 2001, 123 p. Elsevier,
This special issue contains the
keynote papers of the 15th ISTRO Conference, which took place in
Forth North, from 2-7 July 2001. It contains an overview paper about ISTRO’s
important history since 1955 and eight keynote addresses, grouped into four
general themes: (1) tillage and soil structure; (2) tillage and erosion; (3)
tillage and biology; and (4) tillage and sustainable systems.
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The
Sustainability of Long-term Growth.
Socioeconomic and Ecological Perspectives. M.
Munasinghe, O. Sunkel and C. de Miguel, editors. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham and
This is a comprehensive review
of the links between sustainable development and long-term growth. This state-of-the-art
book develops our understanding of the complex issues that will shape
sustainable development strategies in the 21st century – economic
growth, poverty eradication, environmental protection, social inclusion and
good governance. Sustainability is analysed in terms of its economic, social
and environmental dimensions. The authors argue that material-intensive
conventional economic growth is unsustainable in the long term, unless
environmental and social elements are given equal priority. Important issues
are critically discussed, including durability versus optimality of development
globalization, dematerialization of production and consumption, alternative
lifestyles, green national income accounting and environmental valuation,
ecodevelopment, the growing North-South development gap, environmental and
trade policy and the equitable distribution of assets and among nations. The
coverage ranges from comprehensive analytical models to practical case studies
applications, ensuring this will be essential reading for policy analysts and
researchers as well as academics involved in economic growth, environmental
economics and sustainable development.
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Biodiversity
in the Balance. Land Use, National
Development and Global Welfare. R. Cervigni. Edward Elgar,
Cheltenham and
Biodiversity has become over the
last couple of decades the subject of world-wide debate, due to mounting
concerns about the negative consequences of its accelerating decline. The
contribution of biological resources both to sustainable national development
and to the well being of the international community has been underestimated in
the past. Ecological and biological research is increasingly pointing to the
possibility that “low” diversity of life forms may threaten the satisfaction of
material needs, imperil the life support functions of natural systems, and in
general deprive present, and more likely future generations of material and
spiritual benefits related to a biologically diverse planet. At the same time,
biodiversity is a concept that encompasses multiple scientific dimensions
(genetic, species and ecosystem levels), multiple scales (local, national and
international), and multiple justifications (materialistic, ethical, religious)
for concern and action. As a result, there seems to be little clarity on what
should constitute the objectives of public policies for biodiversity
conservation and management. One set of issues appears of particular interest,
and is addressed in this book. These revolve around the broad question of
whether there are options to conserve the benefits of biodiversity without
compromising the benefits of development. Specific questions that stem from this
are: how much land may be allocated to productive uses without compromising the
ability of biodiversity to contribute to human welfare? Will the development
process continue to exert pressure on biodiversity, or will it generate
incentives for its sustainable use? Does the international community have a
role in facilitating the transition towards sustainability? This book contains
a collection of writings, drafted between 1993 and 1998. The introductory
chapter summarizes the main terms of the scientific and policy debate. Chapter
2 proposes a framework to analyse the sequence of land use changes typically
observed in a number of tropical countries; and discusses different policy
interventions which could alter the incentives for land conversion. A model that
addresses the allocative and incentive implications of the incremental cost
mechanism is proposed in Chapter 3. The actual process of land use change is
presented in a case study made in the region of Sierra de
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Encyclopedia
of Global Change. Environmental
Change and Human Society. A.
Goudie, editor-in-chief. D.J. Cuff, associate editor.
This comprehensive and
interdisciplinary guide to the Earth’s environment includes 320 entries, 300
graphs, photographs and maps. It describes the current knowledge of natural and
anthropogenic changes in the physical, chemical and biological systems and
resources, and explores the effects of those on changes in human society. The
articles cover concepts of global change, earth and earth systems, human
factors, resources, responses to global change, agreements and associations,
institutions, policies, biographies and case studies. Enhanced by 1500 charts,
diagrams, and other illustrations, extensive cross-references, bibliographies
and an index, the encyclopedia links essential knowledge across many fields,
including geography, geology, geophysics, atmospheric science, political
science, economics, technology, and others.
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Remote
Sensing for Tropical Ecosystem Management. United
Nations.
Monitoring the Earth’s
environment by remote sensing provides an opportunity for greater information
sharing and predicting changes in the Earth’s environment. These conference
proceedings spread an awareness among managers and planners concerned with
natural resources and environmental management about the usefulness of remote
sensing and geographic information system techniques in aping, monitoring and
managing the land and its resources in tropical environments. Recently have
been published: Proceedings of the Sixth Regional Seminar on Earth Observation
for Tropical Ecosystem Management,
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Monitoring Nutrient Flows and
Economic Performance in Tropical Farming Systems (NUTMON). Part 1:
Manual for the NUTMON-toolbox. And
Annex. J. Vlaming, H. Van den Bosch. M.S.
van Wijk, A. De Jager, A. Bannink and H. van Keulen. Alterra,
Wageningen and Agricultural Economics Research Institute,
Soil fertility is a dynamic
entity. While parts of Western Europe and
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NGO’s in developing countries. See for details the homepage mentioned above.
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Conservation Agriculture, A Worldwide Challenge. Volume I: Keynote
Contributions. Volume II: Offered Contributions. L. García-Torres, J. Benites
and A. Martínez-Vilela, editors. ECAF, Córdoba. Volume I, xii + 391 p. ISBN
84-932237-1-9. Volume II, xxxi + 815 p. ISBN 84-932237-2-7. Set of two volumes:
ISBN 84-932237-0-0. Hardcover.
These volumes contain the
proceedings of the First World Congress on Conservation Agriculture (
Volume I of the Proceedings
contains 40 keynote papers, Volume II the 153 contributions presented at this
well-attended first international congress on Conservation Agriculture.
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World in Transition:
Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Biosphere. H.-J.
Schellnhuber, J. Kokot, F.O. Beese, at al. German Advisory Council on Global
Change (WBGU). Published by Earthscan,
Biodiversity – the planet’s
natural capital – is undergoing a dramatic collapse: its ‘Sixth Extinction’.
The losses, which are due to human activities and overexploitation of the
biosphere, are irreversible. They are undermining the basis of future
well-being and prosperity - including genetic resources, food production,
climate stability, and coastal and soil protection. This volume presents an
analysis of the state of the biosphere. In it, the scientists of the German
Advisory Council on Global Change show that the time remaining for remedial
action is fast disappearing and they set out a range of initiatives to be
undertaken at different levels. Among their main urgent recommendations are:
(1) protect 10 to 20 per cent of the global land area; (2) establish an
International Panel on Biodiversity to provide scientific advice; (3)
conservation of the diversity of cultivated as well as wild plant species; (4)
extend bioregional management and nature sponsorship; and (5) a greater
multilateral cooperation and implementation of the Convention on Biological
Diversity. It is a thorough, interdisciplinary view of the biosphere, covering
both science aspects as well as policy issues.
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World
in Transition 2. New
Structures for Global Environmental Policy. H.-J. Schellnhuber, J. Kokot, F.O. Beese, et al. German
Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Published by Earthscan,
International institutions and
structures are crucial to the management of the global environment. Today, more
than 900 bilateral and multilateral environmental treaties are in force.
Nevertheless, the most pressing problems of global environmental change remain
unresolved – some, indeed, are intensifying – and alternative institutional
responses are urgently needed. In this volume the current problems are analysed
and comprehensive and persuasive policies for a successful future regime are
set out. The authors offer a vision of reforming the United Nations in the
environmental arena that they term the ‘Earth Alliance’, comprising three
interlocking realms: (1) Earth Assessment: the establishment of an independent
body to provide advance warning of the risks of particular environmental
changes. (2) Earth Organization: the radical redesign of the organizational
core of the international policy, centered on the establishment of an
International Environmental Organization, with the existing United Nations
Environment Programme as its initial nucleus. (3) Earth Funding: the
exploration of new avenues for financing global environmental policy.
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Farmer
Innovation in
One of
This book is a rich source of
case studies and analyses of how agricultural research and development policy
can and should be changed. It presents evidence of the resilience and
resolution of rural communities in
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Handbook
of the Field Assessment of Land Degradation. M.A.
Stocking and N. Murnaghan. Earthscan,
With the increasing concern over
rural livelihoods and the food security of poor communities in developing
countries, it is vital that the land quality is maintained. Yet land
degradation is widespread and is lowering the productive capacity of the land
in these countries. This practical guidebook presents simple, non-technical
indicators for assessing land degradation in the field. Based on the
perspective of the farmer, the methods selected lend meaning to real farming
situations, helping the field professional to understand not only the impact of
degradation but also the benefits to be gained from reversing it.
The handbook shows how to
calculate indicators such as those of soil loss and explains the interpretation
of results and, in particular, how combinations of different indicators can
give conclusive evidence of the severity of land degradation. The focus of the
book in on understanding the farmer’s interaction with the land, and how
environmental protection, food security and the well being of rural land users
may be assured. With many figures, colour photographs, worked examples and
sample forms based on assessment techniques validated by field professionals in
Africa, Asia and Latin America, this will be an essential training manual for
field-workers, researchers in educational institutions and students. An outline
for a two-week training workshop in land degradation field assessment is also
given, as well as an annotated bibliography for further reading, and a listing
of websites.
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Dynamics
& Diversity. Soil
Fertility and Farming Livelihoods in
The management of
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Trace
Elements in Terrestrial Environments.
Biogeochemistry, Bioavailability, and Risks of Metals. Second
edition. D.C. Adriano.
The first edition of this book
appeared in 1986 under the title Trace Elements in the Terrestrial Environment.
The primary objective was to provide students and professionals with a
comprehensive book about many important aspects of trace elements in the
environment. The present edition follows a similar format, but includes new
chapters on biogeochemistry, bioavailability, environmental pollution and
regulation, ecological and human health effects, and risk and risk management
and expanding the coverage to include freshwater systems and groundwater where
appropriate. In addition to plants, which were the main biota of emphasis in
the first edition, fish and wildlife and invertebrates are discussed as
necessary. The ecological and human health effects of major environmental
contaminants, such as As, Cd, Cr, Pb and Hg are also highlighted, along with
relevant information on potential risks to the ecology and human health. The
chapters are organized by element, which are grouped into “the big five”
environmental metals, the essential elements, and other trace elements. For all
elements are given: the general properties; the production and uses; the
element in nature; the element is soils; the element in plants; factors
affecting mobility and bioavailability of the element; the element in animal
and human nutrition; the sources of the element in the environment; and an
extensive listing of references. As with the first edition, the book contains
many tables and figures.
Price: USD 198.00; GBP 161.50;
SFR 403.39.
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Treatment
of Contaminated Soil. Fundamentals,
Analysis, Applications. R.
Stegmann, G. Brunner, W. Calmano and G. Matz, editors.
Anthropogenic activities have
resulted in contaminated soils covering significant areas of land. In the 1980s
people recognized the size and the consequences of this problem. The developed
treatment and remediation processes were
often very pragmatic. There was a lack of a scientific basis and a need for
further development. There are four main alternatives for the treatment of
contaminated soils: (1) leave the contamination as it is, but restrict the
utilization of the land; (2) complete or partial encapsulation of the
contamination; (3) excavation of the contaminated soil and land filling; and
(4) treatment of the contaminated soil in-situ, either at an onsite or central
plan. In the long term, the only alternative that makes sense is the
decontamination of the polluted soil. Only by this means the problem can be
solved without transferring it to the future; the soil needs to be used without
any restrictions. This optimum solution cannot always be achieved, and
compromises have to be made. In the actual remediation, mechanical, thermal and
biological processes are usually practices. The state of the art is
characterized by a multitude of procedures. This situation has been achieved by
intensive worldwide research where processes have been optimized and further
developed. It was essential to adapt and further develop the chemical
analytical methods and the monitoring processes for contaminated soil. In
addition, the treatment goals have been elaborated and defined, as
toxicological and ecotoxicological target values are now available on a
scientific basis. Technical soil protection has been developed into a newly
acknowledged scientific discipline, where an integrated cooperation among scientists
from different disciplines of engineering, chemistry, biology, soils, geology
and environmental planning is essential. The book contains the following main
parts: (1) fundamental aspects (3 papers); (2) chemical analysis of
contaminated soils (6 papers); (3) ecotoxicological assessment of soils (2
papers); (4) bioremediation (14 papers); (5) physical treatment (8 papers); and
(6) natural attenuation (3 papers). The appendix offers a survey of materials,
test methods and apparatus, as well as a description of analytical directions
and processes.
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Understanding
the Earth System. Compartments,
Processes and Interactions. E.
Ehlers and T. Krafft, editors, in collaboration with C. Moss.
This volume includes revised
versions of most of the presentations made at an international conference under
the same title as this book, which was held in
There is no doubt that “Global
Change” and its scientific analysis and interpretation are on the forefront of
international research efforts. Since the detection of global warming, first
signs of world-wide melting of ice-masses and glaciers, indications of
sea-level rises and/or depletion of the atmospheric ozone-layers, increasing
number of scientists have devoted their research to the solution of these and
related problems. Global change research and its development over the last 20
or 30 years are testimony not only to the almost unbelievable broadening and
deepening of themes, but also to a shift of scientific disciplines. As a matter
of fact: the title of the conference and the publication of its proceedings are
part of this development. The book has four parts: (1) Panorama: the Earth
system: analysis from science and the humanities (5 papers); (2) Focus: Water
in the Earth system: availability, quality and allocation in cross-disciplinary
perspectives (3 papers); (3) Perspective: advancing our understanding:
reductionist and/or integrationist approaches to Earth system analysis (5
papers), and (4) Appendix: Working Group reports (6 papers).
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Plant
Nutrient Acquisition. New
Perspectives. N. Ae, J. Arihara, K. Okada and A. Srinivasan,
editors. Springer-Verlag,
This book is a compilation of
research papers presented at an international workshop, held in
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Food
Security for
Between 1970 and 1999 nearly 30
conferences devoted to food production or human nutrition in Papua New Guinea
(PNG) were held. An important meeting took place in June 2000, of which the
proceedings are recorded in this publication. Part 1: Food Security and
Nutrition, has six sections: Food Security, Policy Issues (7 papers) Food
Security, General (12 papers), Food Shortages and the 1997 Drought and Frosts
(17 papers), Renewable Resource Management (14 papers), Human Nutrition (7
papers), Information and Extension (9 papers). Part 2: Food Production in PNG,
has five sections: Food Production, General (13 papers), Animal Production (10
papers), Crop Production, Sweet Potato (9 Papers), Crop Production, Other Root
Crops (9 papers), and Crop Production, Non-root Crops (8 papers). The last part
of the book has a conference summary and recommendations for policy and programs.
The book is available online at:
www.aciar.gov.au/publications/proceedings/99/index.html.
Price of hard copy: AUD 52.00.