Publisher's Synopsis
Encyclopaedia of Soil Erosion Issues in Agriculture, deals with several aspects of soil erosion, focusing on its connection with the agricultural world. Chapters' topics are various, ranging from irrigation practices to soil nutrient, land use changes or tillage methodologies. Since the beginning of its formation, the crust of the Earth has evolved under the action of the morpho¬genetic processes occurring differently as periodicity and intensity as a result of the interacting processes that change the surface of the earth at the levels of interference of the lithosphere with the atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. As part of the exogenous morphogenetic processes, soil erosion plays an im¬portant role in the dynamics that shape the crust of the Earth. Soil erosion prevention and control still prevails on arable land as there are approximately 2.6 million hectares whose slope is greater than 5%. On the sloping lands where there are potential conditions for increased erosion, the first goal of the anti-erosion action is to reduce the annual loss to levels that can be compensated by the natural process of soil recovery.
