This book presents the concepts and processes of the geosphere with its soil and terrestrial systems. It explains how these systems function and provides strategies on how to best manage them. It serves as an excellent resource for basic knowledge on the geosphere and includes important solutions that environmental managers face today.
Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions. Through in-depth entries and a topical table of contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about environmental problems and their corresponding management issues. This six-volume set is a reimagining of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and features insights from more than 400 contributors, all experts in their field.
The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in studying environmental management are presented here in six stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental systems.
Features
- The first handbook that demonstrates the key processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management
- Addresses new and cutting-edge topics on ecosystem services, resilience, sustainability, foodenergywater nexus, socio-ecological systems, and more
- Provides an excellent basic knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems function, and offers strategies on how to best manage them
- Includes the most important problems and solutions facing environmental management today
In this third volume, Managing Soils and Terrestrial Systems, the general concepts and processes of the geosphere with its related soil and terrestrial systems are introduced. It explains how these systems function and provides strategies on how to best manage them. It serves as an excellent resource for finding basic knowledge on the geosphere systems and includes important problems and solutions that environmental managers face today. This book practically demonstrates the key processes, methods, and models used in studying environmental management.
Section I: APC: Anthropogenic Chemicals and Activities
1. Agricultural Soils: Nitrous Oxide Emissions
2. Agriculture: Energy Use and Conservation
3. Agriculture: Organic
4. Erosion by Water: Accelerated
5. Erosion: Irrigation-Induced
6. Pesticide Translocation Control: Soil Erosion
7. Pesticides
8. Salt-Affected Soils: Sustainable Agriculture
9. Sodic Soils: Irrigation Farming Section II: COV: Comparative Overviews of Important Topics for Environmental Management 10. Agricultural Soils: Carbon and Nitrogen Biological Cycling
11. Agricultural Soils: Phosphorus
12. Erosion and Global Change
13. Erosion and Precipitation
14. Erosion: History
15. Erosion by Wind: Global Hot Spots
16. Erosion by Wind: Principles
17. Erosion: Snowmelt
18. Erosion: Soil Quality
19. Farming: Organic
20. Global Climate Change: World Soils
21. Integrated Farming Systems
22. Organic Soil Amendments
23. Pasturelands, Rangelands, and Other Grazing Social-Ecological Systems
24. Salt-Affected Soils: Physical Properties and Behavior
25. Sodic Soils: Properties
26. Soil Degradation: Global Assessment
27. Soil Erosion and Carbon Dioxide
28. Soil Quality: Carbon and Nitrogen Gases
29. Sustainable Agriculture: Soil Quality Section III: CSS: Case Studies of Environmental Management 30. Drought and Agricultural Production in the Central Andes
31. Mines: Rehabilitation of Open Cut Section IV: DIA: Diagnostic Tools: Monitoring, Ecological Modeling, Ecological Indicators, and Ecological Services 32. Bioenergy Crops: Carbon Balance Assessment
33. Erosion by Water: Amendment Techniques
34. Erosion by Water: Assessment and Control
35. Erosion by Water: Empirical Methods
36. Erosion by Water: Process-Based Modeling
37. Erosion by Wind: Source, Measurement, Prediction, and Control
38. Erosion Control: Tillage and Residue Methods
39. Pest Management: Modeling
40. Soil Quality: Indicators Section V: ELE: Focuses on the Use of Legislation or Policy to Address Environmental Problems 41. Acid Sulfate Soils: Management
42. Agricultural Water Quantity Management
43. Erosion by Water: Vegetative Control
44. Erosion Control: Soil Conservation
45. Farming: Organic Pest Management
46. Integrated Nutrient Management
47. Integrated Pest Management
48. Integrated Weed Management
49. Manure Management: Compost and Biosolids
50. Manure Management: Dairy
51. Manure Management: Phosphorus
52. Manure Management: Poultry
53. Organic Matter: Management
54. Pest Management
55. Pest Management: Ecological Agriculture
56. Pest Management: Ecological Aspects
57. Pest Management: Legal Aspects Section VI: ENT: Environmental Management Using Environmental Technologies 58. Acid Sulfate Soils: Formation
59. Erosion and Sediment Control: Vegetative Techniques
60. Precision Agriculture: Engineering Aspects
61. Sodic Soils: Reclamation
62. Tillage Erosion: Terrace Formation Section VII: NEC: Natural Elements and Chemicals Found in Nature 63. Erosion by Wind-Driven Rain
64. Organic Matter: Global Distribution in World Ecosystems
65. Permafrost
66. Salt-Affected Soils: Plant Response Section VIII: PRO: Basic Environmental Processes 67. Agricultural Runoff
68. Desertification
69. Desertification: Prevention and Restoration
70. Erosion
71. Erosion by Water: Erosivity and Erodibility
Brian D. Fath is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Towson University (Maryland, USA) and a Senior Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Laxenburg, Austria). He has published over 180 research papers, reports, and book chapters on environmental systems modeling, specifically in the areas of network analysis, urban metabolism, and sustainability. He has co-authored the books A New Ecology: Systems Perspective (2020), Foundations for Sustainability: A Coherent Framework of LifeEnvironment Relations (2019), and Flourishing within Limits to Growth: Following Natures Way (2015). He is also Editor-in-Chief for the journal Ecological Modelling and Co-Editor-in-Chief for Current Research in Environmental Sustainability. Dr. Fath was the 2016 recipient of the Prigogine Medal for outstanding work in systems ecology and twice a Fulbright Distinguished Chair (Parthenope University, Naples, Italy, in 2012 and Masaryk University, Czech Republic, in 2019). In addition, he has served as Secretary General of the International Society for Ecological Modelling, Co-Chair of the Ecosystem Dynamics Focus Research Group in the Community Surface Modeling Dynamics System, and member and past Chair of the Baltimore County Commission on Environmental Quality.
Sven E. Jųrgensen (19342016) was a Professor of Environmental Chemistry at Copenhagen University. He earned a doctorate of engineering in environmental technology and a doctorate of science in ecological modeling. He was an honorable doctor of science at Coimbra University (Portugal) and at Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). He was Editor-in-Chief of Ecological Modelling from the journals inception in 1975 until 2009. He was Editor-in-Chief for the Encyclopedia of Environmental Management (2013) and Encyclopedia of Ecology (2008). In 2004, Dr. Jorgensen was awarded the Stockholm Water Prize and the Prigogine Medal. He was awarded the Einstein Professorship by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005. In 2007, he received the Pascal Medal and was elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences. He published over 350 papers and has edited or written over 70 books. Dr. Jorgensen gave popular and well-received lectures and courses in ecological modeling, ecosystem theory, and ecological engineering worldwide.
