Ram C. Dalal, Somasundaram Jayaraman

Soil Fertility Degradation, and Soil Health Restoration and Management (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This monograph provides a comprehensive collection of information on soil fertility degradation across various climatic zones and soil orders. It focuses on physical, chemical, and biological degradation of soil, offering insights into sustainable soil management practices for restoring degraded soils. The book details the processes and causes of soil degradation, including structural degradation, erosion, nutrient depletion, nutrient mining, decline of soil organic matter, and biological degradation, while highlighting strategies to mitigate and remediate these issues in different climatic zones.

Unsustainable farming practices have accelerated soil degradation globally, leading to soil erosion, nutrient loss, and structural damage. Nutrient depletion and the loss of soil organic carbon are among the most critical concerns, but these trends can be reversed with sustainable management practices and appropriate technologies. This book addresses the challenges of fertility-degraded soils and offers wide range of management and restoration strategies to ensure food and nutritional security, maintain ecosystem services, and attain Sustainable Development Goals under various agro-climatic conditions worldwide.

This book is a valuable reference material for researchers, scientists, students, farmers, and land managers seeking efficient and sustainable natural resource management. It also serves as essential reading material for undergraduate and postgraduate students in agriculture, soil science, agronomy, agrophysics, agrobiology, and environmental and climate sciences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789819604050
• Artikelnr.: 73884470

Autorenporträt

Professor Ram C Dalal, AM graduated from the Punjab Agricultural University (1964) with University Gold Medal, completed his master's and PhD from Indian Agricultural Research Institute (1969), New Delhi. Presently he is a Professor /Adjunct Professor in the School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, and Adjunct Professor at Uttar Banga Krishi Vishwavidalya, Pundibari, Coochbehar, India. During the last five decades of research and teaching experience, he has contributed significantly to create awareness in the farming, scientific and general community to the seriousness and insidious nature of soil/land degradation. For the last 30 years, landscape restoration, soil organic matter management, carbon sequestration and nitrogen management, site-specific management for soil and subsoil and other constraints, sustainable crop and pasture rotations, and vegetation management have been the central research platforms across cropping, rangelands, and forestry ecosystems. Policy makers and politicians now internationally recognize that land degradation, carbon loss and landscape degradation processes lead to deteriorating water and air quality, and that sustainable land, vegetation and water use, and greenhouse gas mitigation and climate change are the national and international priorities. In addition, he is recipient of several awards and honours and also mentored 30 PhD Scholars in the span of 5 decades; published more than 450 publications with more than 23000 citations. He is recipient of several awards/recognitions including National Landcare Award, Hermitage (1994) and JA Prescott Award, Australian Society of Soil Science (2008); Professor Dalal was made a member in the general division of the 'Order of Australia (AM)' in 2018 and also awarded 'Medal of Agriculture' by Ag Institute Australia in 2021 for outstanding service to science, and to farming community through research and sustainable farming practices.

> 2400 citations. In addition, he has authored/edited 10 books and published more than 50 book chapters. Besides, he has mentored post-graduate students (10), PhD scholars (4), and young scientists (5). He received two Gold Medals for PhD research work, Endeavour Research Fellowship in 2015 (by Australian Government), Australian Awards Ambassador in 2018 (by Australian High Commissioner to India), Scientist Award (2019), Leadership Award (2019) and Dr JSP Yadav Award for Excellence in Soil Science (2021). Fellow of National Academy of Biological Sciences (2022) and Fellow of Indian Association of Soil & Water Conservationists (2022), Associate Editor of Soil Research (CSIRO), Editor (Farming System), Discover Soil (Springer Nature) and other national journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION.- Chapter 2. SCOPE OF THE REVIEW.- Chapter 3. PROCESSES OF FERTILITY DEGRADATION.- Chapter 4. NATURE OF FERTILITY DEGRADATION.- Chapter 5. Fertility Degraded Soil: Soil Health Restoration and Management-Strategies and Approaches.- Chapter 6. CONCLUSIONS.- Chapter 7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.- Chapter 8. REFERENCES.