Search

GlobalSoilMap: Digital Soil Mapping from Country to Globe contains contributions that were presented at the 2nd GlobalSoilMap conference, held 4-6 July 2017 in Moscow, Russian Federation. These contributions demonstrate new developments in the GlobalSoilMap project and digital soil mapping technology in many parts of the world, with special focus on former USSR countries. GlobalSoilMap: Digital Soil Mapping from Country to Globe aims to stimulate capacity building and new incentives to develop full GlobalSoilMap products in all parts of the world.

Global Soil Security: Towards More Science-Society Interfaces contains contributions presented at the 2nd Global Soil Security conference, held 5-6 December 2016 in Paris. These chapters focus on how to achieve soil security. This involves scientific, economic, industrial and political engagement to inform soil-users, policy makers and citizens with the objective of implementing appropriate actions. The contributions to this book address the five dimensions of soil security, namely: capability, condition, capital, connectivity and codification.

GlobalSoilMap: Basis of the global spatial soil information system contains contributions that were presented at the 1st GlobalSoilMap conference, held 7-9 October 2013 in Orl‘s, France. These contributions demonstrate the latest developments in the GlobalSoilMap project and digital soil mapping technology for which the ultimate aim is to produce a

Advances in Agronomy, Volume 178, the latest release in this leading reference on agronomy, contains a variety of updates and highlights new advances in the field, with each chapter written by an international board of authors. - Includes numerous, timely, state-of-the-art reviews on the latest advancements in agronomy - Features distinguished, well recognized authors from around the world - Builds upon this venerable and iconic review series - Covers the extensive variety and breadth of subject matter in the crop and soil sciences

For its tenth edition, the Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications took place at the former Ecole des Mines de Paris, now Mines ParisTech, where Georges Matheron developed the foundations of Geostatistics and numerous renowned researchers followed in his footsteps. From July 9 until July 11, more than 170 experts on geostatistics applied to environmental problems gathered at MINES ParisTech to attend this tenth edition of geoENV. This book contains the abstracts of all presentations, covering fields such as Geostatistical theory and new methodologies, stochastic simulations, spatio-temporal processes, surface and subsurface hydrology, inverse modeling, air quality, climate change, soil contamination, pedology, ecology, natural resources, health, epidemiology, CO2 sequestration, forestry, agriculture, and remote sensing.

This book covers soil health/management but also addresses issues such as reverting land degradation, improving soil carbon and biodiversity, mitigating climate change and enhancing ecosystem services/functions. This book is comprised of 12 chapters by leading academics and scientists from across the globe, and deals with various issues, prospects and the importance of''Sustainable Soil Management''under different agro-climatic conditions, including India.

Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment, Second Edition, Five Volume Set updates and expands the previous version to ensure coverage of topics relevant to current world problems such as population pressure, food security and global change. Since publication of the previous edition there has been a huge change in our ability to carry out bioinformatics related to soil organisms and their functioning. Major developments in next generation DNA sequencing techniques have made it possible to identify both the diversity of microbial populations and their functioning. Furthermore, it allows the management of microbes within the soil. Imaging is changing our perceptions and improving our knowledge of soil aggregation. This also applies to remote and proximal sensing of laboratory and field soils, which is undergoing rapid change. Soil physics is a core area of soil science, but new techniques and technology have increased our understanding of processes. This reference work covers the entire field of soil science, bridging the gap between basic science and applications, and is designed to serve students and expert researchers. It is organized around four core topics, the main components of soil science – biology, chemistry, physics and environment and management. Soil science is becoming a crucial subject as world governments realize its importance in food production, water quality, flood control, greenhouse gas management, source of antibiotics and other drugs. As such this work is of interest not only to academics but to policy makers, government researchers and the geographical and environmental community who are not necessarily in research roles but need information on soil to support their core work. - Comprehensive: chapters are written by renowned scientists with diverse expertise, providing an all-round depiction of the field. Bridges core soil science and the environment, with a focus on challenges that extend from land use to climate change - Up to date: updates and expands the previous edition. Includes developing areas of research such as soil microbiology and new techniques of investigation - Interdisciplinary: serves a wide audience, academics and professionals in disciplines ranging from fundamental earth science to ecology, agriculture, environmental health and environmental management

A powerful movement is happening in farming today—farmers are reconnecting with their roots to fight climate change. For one woman, that's meant learning her tribe's history to help bring back the buffalo. For another, it's meant preserving forest purchased by her great-great-uncle, among the first wave of African Americans to buy land. Others are rejecting monoculture to grow corn, beans, and squash the way farmers in Mexico have done for centuries. Still others are rotating crops for the native cuisines of those who fled the “American wars” in Southeast Asia. In Healing Grounds, Liz Carlisle tells the stories of Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Asian American farmers who are reviving their ancestors'methods of growing food—techniques long suppressed by the industrial food system. These farmers are restoring native prairies, nurturing beneficial fungi, and enriching soil health. While feeding their communities and revitalizing cultural ties to land, they are steadily stitching ecosystems back together and repairing the natural carbon cycle. This, Carlisle shows, is the true regenerative agriculture – not merely a set of technical tricks for storing CO2 in the ground, but a holistic approach that values diversity in both plants and people. Cultivating this kind of regenerative farming will require reckoning with our nation's agricultural history—a history marked by discrimination and displacement. And it will ultimately require dismantling power structures that have blocked many farmers of color from owning land or building wealth. The task is great, but so is its promise. By coming together to restore these farmlands, we can not only heal our planet, we can heal our communities and ourselves.

Soil organic matter (SOM) is a highly reactive constituent of the soil matrix because of its large surface area, high ion exchange capacity, enormous affinity for water due to hygroscopicity, and capacity to form organo-mineral complexes. It is an important source and sink of atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gases depending on climate, land use, soil and crop management, and a wide range of abiotic and biotic factors, including the human dimensions of socioeconomic and political factors. Agroecosystems are among important controls of the global carbon cycle with a strong impact on anthropogenic or abrupt climate change.This volume of Advances in Soil Sciences explains pedological processes set-in-motion by increases in SOM content of depleted and degraded soils. It discusses the relationship between SOM content and critical soil quality parameters including aggregation, water retention and transport, aeration and gaseous exchange, and chemical composition of soil air. The book identifies policy options needed to translate science into action for making sustainable management of SOM as a strategy for adaptation to and mitigation of climate change.Features: Relates soil organic matter stock to soil processes, climate parameters, vegetation, landscape attributes Establishes relationships between soil organic matter and land use, species, and climate Identifies land use systems for protecting and restoring soil organic matter stock Links soil organic matter stock with the global carbon cycle for mitigation of climate change Part of the Advances in Soil Sciences series, this volume will appeal to agricultural, environmental, and soil scientists demonstrating the link between soil organic matter stock and provisioning of critical ecosystem services for nature and humans.

This book begins with a brief background on greenhouse gases sources and sinks and continues with a discussion in different sectors including forest fluxes to human health and modeling techniques to policy measures. The chapters explore in detail about the GHG emission budgets, mitigation strategies, technical advancement and input-output analysis. Greenhouse gases (GHGs) occur naturally in our atmosphere and are essential to the survival of most of the organisms on the planet earth. GHGs such as such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone etc. play a major role in balancing the radiative budget, by absorbing or emitting some of the infrared rays reflecting from the earth's surface. But unfortunately, anthropogenic activities like use of fossil fuel, intensive agriculture and livestock farming, use of synthetic fertilizers, deforestation, and industrial processes etc. have drastically interfered in the natural air composition, by releasing excess greenhouse gases into theatmosphere. This has led to the increase in the ability of the atmosphere to absorb more infrared energy. This book is a complete information set covering all aspects of GHGs, sources, sinks and control/mitigation strategies. This book is also written in simple language with helpful photographs, diagrams and flowcharts which will make the reader comfortable in understanding the concepts a more relatively easier way. The book is a valuable tool for students in Environmental Science, Ecology, Biological Science, Economics and Agriculture. It is unique to environmental consultants, researchers and other professionals involved in climate change studies, Non-governmental organizations (NGO's).

L'initiative « 4 pour 1 000 : les sols pour la sécurité alimentaire et le climat » propose d'augmenter chaque année d'un quatre millième le stock de carbone présent dans tous les sols du monde. À la demande de l'Ademe et du ministère de l'Agriculture et de l'Alimentation, l'Inra (devenu aujourd'hui INRAE) a conduit une étude, centrée sur la France métropolitaine, visant à estimer le potentiel de stockage de carbone des sols agricoles et forestiers et, in fine, à mesurer la contribution potentielle de ce levier à l'objectif de réduction des émissions nettes de gaz à effet de serre.Diverses pratiques candidates (cultures intermédiaires, apport de nouvelles ressources organiques, gestion des prairies, agroforesterie…) ont été évaluées. Les résultats obtenus ont montré une forte variabilité du stockage additionnel de carbone. L'étude a également permis d'estimer le coût supplémentaire, pour les agriculteurs, de mise en œuvre de ces pratiques de stockage, puis une allocation de l'effort de stockage entre les pratiques et les régions a été effectuée. Ces données permettront aux différents acteurs concernés de faire les meilleurs choix pour stocker davantage de carbone dans les sols.Cet ouvrage s'adresse aux décideurs chargés de l'élaboration des politiques publiques climatiques dans le domaine agricole, aux responsables territoriaux, aux aménageurs, aux ingénieurs et techniciens, aux agriculteurs et à l'ensemble des citoyens intéressés par la problématique de l'agriculture et du changement climatique.

Today, 20 percent of the global food supply relies on urban agriculture: social-ecological systems shaped by both human and non-human interactions. This book shows how urban agroecologists measure flora and fauna that underpin the ecological dynamics of these systems, and how people manage and benefit from these systems. It explains how the sociopolitical landscape in which these systems are embedded can in turn shape the social, ecological, political, and economic dynamics within them. Synthesizing interdisciplinary approaches in urban agroecology in the natural and social sciences, the book explores methodologies and new directions in research that can be adopted by scholars and practitioners alike. With contributions from researchers utilizing both social and natural science approaches, Urban Agroecology describes the current social-environmental understandings of the science, the movement and the practices in urban agroecology. By investigating the role of agroecology in cities, the book calls for the creation of spaces for food to be sustainably grown in urban spaces: an Urban Agriculture (UA) movement. Essential reading for graduate students, practitioners, policy makers and researchers, this book charts the course for accelerating this movement.

This book presents a novel and systematic social theory of soil, and is representative of the rising interest in'the material'in social sciences. Bringing together new modes of'critical description'with speculative practices and methods of inquiry, it contributes to the exploration of current transformations in socioecologies, as well as in political and artistic practices, in order to address global ecological change.The chapters in this edited volume challenge scholars to attend more carefully to the ways in which they think about soil, both materially and theoretically. Contributors address a range of topics, including new ways of thinking about the politics of caring for soils; the ecological and symbiotic relations between soils; how the productive capacities and contested governance of soils are deployed as matters of political concern; and indigenous ways of knowing and being with soil.

Peut-on voir le vivant microscopique autrement qu'à travers le prisme de la lutte perpétuelle contre un monde principalement hostile qu'il faut vaincre pour assurer sa survie? Telle est la question que la science soulève à la lumière des nouvelles connaissances. Les recherches les plus récentes montrent en effet que les virus, bactéries, archées, protozoaires, micro-algues ou champignons sont essentiels pour comprendre comment s'est construit le vivant et prendre la mesure de sa complexité, comment il s'est propagé sur Terre, comment il fonctionne, de l'organisme à l'écosystème. Ces recherches révèlent également le potentiel que les micro-organismes représentent en termes d'utilisations bio-inspirées pour le futur de l'humanité et de la biosphère. Cette partie de la biodiversité, si loin de nous mais si présente, est une solution et non un problème. C'est ce nouveau regard que le livre invite à porter sur ce qu'il convient d'appeler la microbiodiversité…

This introductory book to the six volume series includes an introduction defining the critical zone for mankind that extends from tree canopy and the lower atmosphere to water table and unweathered rock. Soils play a crucial role through the functions and the services that they provide to mankind. The spatial and temporal variability of soils is represented by information systems whose importance, recent evolutions and increasingly performing applications in France and in the world must be underlined. The soil functions, discussed in this book, focus on the regulation of the water cycle, biophysicochemical cycles and the habitat role of biodiversity. The main services presented are those related to the provision of agricultural, fodder and forest products, energy, as well as materials and the role of soil as infrastructure support. They also include the different cultural dimensions of soils, their representations being often linked to myths and rites, as well as their values of environmental and archaeological records. Finally, the issue is raised of an off-ground world.

Conçu comme un guide pratique, cet ouvrage traite des analyses réalisées sur les différents horizons de sols observables en Europe. Il a pour ambition de vous aider à bien choisir vos analyses, à maîtriser les modes d'expression des résultats, à les interpréter finement et à les présenter correctement.Grâce à la prise en compte de nombreuses recherches publiées depuis 2000, cette 3e édition est très largement complétée en ce qui concerne le carbone et les matières organiques, les éléments en traces et les indicateurs de qualité biologique.Complément naturel du Guide pour la description des sols (Baize et Jabiol, 2011, éd. Quæ), cet ouvrage s'adresse à tous ceux, pédologues, forestiers, agronomes, techniciens agricoles, ingénieurs en environnement, spécialistes des disciplines voisines, étudiants, enseignants… qui ont à caractériser ou à étudier ce que l'on appelle couramment « les sols ».

Partout où l'agriculture a été modernisée au cours du xxe siècle, des hausses de productivité de la terre et du travail extrêmement fortes ont permis, avec la « révolution verte », d'en finir avec les famines massives.Pourtant, ce siècle s'est terminé sur un constat critique et un diagnostic alarmant : dégradation des sols, pollutions diffuses, érosion de la biodiversité... La modernisation agricole a eu de lourds impacts négatifs sur l'environnement, dont l'agriculture subit en retour les conséquences.Dans un contexte de bouleversement climatique, et face à l'augmentation démographique et au changement des régimes alimentaires, il est crucial de nourrir l'humanité sans continuer à dégrader la planète. L'enjeu des agricultures est de produire en réduisant drastiquement les émissions de gaz à effet de serre, sur des espaces agricoles limités où doivent être préservés la biodiversité, la qualité des ressources, les sols, les eaux, l'air…Cet ouvrage collectif, publié à l'occasion des vingt années d'existence du département Environnement et Agronomie de l'Inra, fait le point sur les avancées réalisées dans ce sens. Il montre qu'une communauté de chercheurs,pluridisciplinaire et diversifiée, s'est organisée pour s'engager résolument dans des recherches sur les grands cycles biogéochimiques, la valorisation de la biodiversité, l'impact, l'adaptation et l'atténuation du changement climatique, la conception de systèmes de culture agro-écologiques…Le département Environnement et Agronomie a contribué au renouvellement des méthodes d'observation et d'expérimentation, de modélisation des écosystèmes et d'évaluation des agrosystèmes. Il porte aujourd'hui une agronomie des systèmes, de la pluralité des échelles de temps et d'espace, de l'intégration et de la complexité, des compromis entre objectifs assignés aux territoires, car il a développé non seulement les compétences scientifiques nécessaires à la production d'une recherche de haut niveau, mais aussi une forte capacité d'expertise au service des politiques publiques et, plus généralement, de tous les acteurs qui souhaitent faire progresser de concert agriculture et environnement.

This book presents the basic concepts of quantitative soil science and, within this framework, it seeks to construct a new body of knowledge. There is a growing need for quantitative approach in soil science, which arises from a general demand for improved economic production and environmental management. Pedometrics can be defined as the development and application of statistical and mathematical methods applicable to data analysis problems in soil science. This book shows how pedometrics can address key soil-related questions from a quantitative point of view. It addresses four main areas which are akin to the problems of conventional pedology: (i) Understanding the pattern of soil distribution in character space – soil classification, (ii) Understanding soil spatial and temporal variation, (iii) Evaluating the utility and quality of soil and ultimately, (iv) Understanding the genesis of soil. This is the first book that address these problems in a coherent quantitate approach.

This book describes and provides many detailed examples of implementing Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) using R. The work adheres to Digital Soil Mapping theory, and presents a strong focus on how to apply it. DSM exercises are also included and cover procedures for handling and manipulating soil and spatial data in R. The book also introduces the basic concepts and practices for building spatial soil prediction functions, and then ultimately producing digital soil maps.

The post-conference proceedings are primarily intended for participants of the 23rd Central European Geographical Conference held in October 2015 at the Faculty of Education, Masaryk University. The papers are divided according to expert sections (plenary sessions, digital geographic data, landscape as a laboratory, useful geography, geographical education, geography and poster sections) and reflect the current state of professional interest of conference participants. The papers present current geographic research trends of experts from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Nepal.

This book contains papers presented at the 6th Global Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping, held 11-14 November 2014 at the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences of Nanjing, China. Digital soil mapping is advancing on different fronts at different paces throughout the world. The researches and applications on DSM are moving from method development to realizations in different scales and regions, serving the generation of national and continental to global soil grids. Meanwhile, new ideas and insights on mapping complex soil-landscapes such as flat plains,anthropogenically altered agriculture and urban spaces are emerging, with the help of new paradigms and models.The goal of the sixth workshop was to review and discuss the state of the art in digital soil mapping, and to explore strategies for bridging research, production, and environmental applications. This book provides a very useful and comprehensive overview of the status of digital soil mapping, in which graduate students, scientists and specialists working within the field of geography can find the spatial prediction approaches and related theory.

This book introduces the concept of soil security and its five dimensions: Capability, Capital, Condition, Connectivity and Codification. These five dimensions make it possible to understand soil's role in delivering ecosystem services and to quantify soil resource by measuring, mapping, modeling and managing it. Each dimension refers to a specific aspect: contribution to global challenges (Capability), value of the soil (Capital), current state of the soil (Condition), how people are connected to the soil (Connectivity) and development of good policy (Codification). This book considers soil security as an integral part of meeting the ongoing challenge to maintain human health and secure our planet's sustainability. The concept of soil security helps to achieve the need to maintain and improve the world's soil for the purpose of producing food, fiber and freshwater, and contributing to energy and climate sustainability. At the same time it helps to maintain biodiversity and protectsecosystem goods and services.

Few topics cut across the soil science discipline wider than research on soil carbon. This book contains 48 chapters that focus on novel and exciting aspects of soil carbon research from all over the world. It includes review papers by global leaders in soil carbon research, and the book ends with a list and discussion of global soil carbon research priorities.Chapters are loosely grouped in four sections:§ Soil carbon in space and time§ Soil carbon properties and processes§ Soil use and carbon management§ Soil carbon and the environmentA wide variety of topics is included: soil carbon modelling, measurement, monitoring, microbial dynamics, soil carbon management and 12 chapters focus on national or regional soil carbon stock assessments. The book provides up-to-date information for researchers interested in soil carbon in relation to climate change and to researchers that are interested in soil carbon for the maintenance of soil quality and fertility. Papers in this book were presented at the IUSS Global Soil C Conference that was held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy. As always, the subjects covered are varied and exemplary of the myriad of subject matter dealt with by this long-running serial. - Maintains the highest impact factor among serial publications in agriculture - Presents timely reviews on important agronomy issues - Enjoys a long-standing reputation for excellence in the field

Les jardins, objets d'un engouement croissant, sont localisés dans des environnements éminemment modifiés par les activités humaines, à l'interface d'usages agricoles, urbains et industriels. Les sols de jardins sont supports des activités de jardinage, de productions végétales et de la biodiversité locale. Ils se caractérisent par des qualités très variables, conséquences de nombreux facteurs d'influence en lien avec l'environnement physique, l'Histoire, les caractéristiques propres au jardin, les productions végétales et animales, les jardiniers et leur infinité de pratiques. Ces dernières sont définies par des contraintes et des convictions écologiques ou économiques très contrastées. Il en demeure que les sols de jardins sont certainement les supports de productions alimentaires les moins connus. Cet ouvrage présente alors un état de l'art des connaissances sur les sols, les usages et productions potagères dans les jardins français. Il s'adresse tant à des chercheurs, enseignants et étudiants (en écologie urbaine, urbanisme ou santé), qu'aux décisionnaires, gestionnaires et opérateurs urbains et péri-urbains. Il est bien évidemment aussi à destination des jardiniers amateurs, principaux acteurs de la qualité des jardins qui parsèment les territoires.

Entre 1950 et 2000, la production agricole mondiale a augmenté plus rapidement que la population planétaire. La quantité alimentaire moyenne disponible par habitants n'a jamais été aussi importante. Comment expliquer que la faim persiste et augmente depuis 40 ans? La faim est le produit de mécanismes complexes, à l'image du monde d'aujourd'hui. Voici un décryptage géopolitique de la faim et des grands enjeux des prochaines décennies.

Soil Carbon in Sensitive European Ecosystems - From Science to Land Management is a comprehensive overview of the latest research in this field drawn together by a network of scientists from across Europe. Soil carbon assessments are crucial at present to our understanding of the dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems and our ability to assess implications for the global carbon exchange and its consequences on the future climate. This book focuses primarily on ecosystems and their soil carbon stocks. The book identifies three key sensitive ecosystems within Europe: Mediterranean Forest and Agricultural Systems; Mountains; and Peatland. Contributors include those currently working for the European research programme, COST Action 639 BurnOut (www.cost639.net; 2006-2010). COST Action 639 emerged from a demand from policy makers in Europe for more detailed information on soil carbon dynamics. The cooperation between experts for reporting and experts for soil dynamics is the focus of the book. This book seeks to provide an up-to-date account on the state-of-the-art research within this topical field.

This book gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions. It will therefore help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future generations.

Cette nouvelle édition actualisée est plus axée sur l'environnement et sur les problèmes spécifiques à l'économie et à la gestion des sols. Sont ainsi présentés les différents sols selon la nature de leur exploitation par les activités humaines. Si la vie végétale a besoin d'eau pour prospérer elle nécessite aussi un sol, qu'il faut préserver pour les générations futures. Cette nouvelle approche de l'étude du sol, en tant que valeur économique, est également étudiée dans cet ouvrage. Des compléments en ligne (exercices, images...) sont disponibles sur le site dunod.com.

Première synthèse nationale sur le sol, composante essentielle de notre environnement, cet ouvrage présente l'ensemble des connaissances sur les principales ressources en sols de France métropolitaine. Les données reprennent l'essentiel des travaux d'inventaire, de cartographie et de recherches associées sur les sols, notamment ceux réalisés dans le cadre du levé de la « Carte pédologique de France », coordonnée scientifiquement par l'Institut national de la recherche agronomique. Abondamment illustré par des schémas, des extraits de cartes explicatifs de la distribution des sols et de nombreuses photographies intégrées dans le cédérom associé, ce livre comporte par ailleurs la corrélation entre la taxonomie française utilisée (Référentiel pédologique) et le référentiel international World Reference Base for soil resources (WRB).

SOIL: beneath our feet / food and fiber / ashes to ashes, dust to dust / dirt!Soil has been called the final frontier of environmental research. The critical role of soil in biogeochemical processes is tied to its properties and place—porous, structured, and spatially variable, it serves as a conduit, buffer, and transformer of water, solutes and gases. Yet what is complex, life-giving, and sacred to some, is ordinary, even ugly, to others. This is the enigma that is soil. Soil and Culture explores the perception of soil in ancient, traditional, and modern societies. It looks at the visual arts (painting, textiles, sculpture, architecture, film, comics and stamps), prose & poetry, religion, philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, wine production, health & diet, and disease & warfare. Soil and Culture explores high culture and popular culture—from the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch to the films of Steve McQueen. It looks at ancient societies and contemporary artists. Contributors from a variety of disciplines delve into the mind of Carl Jung and the bellies of soil eaters, and explore Chinese paintings, African mud cloths, Mayan rituals, Japanese films, French comic strips, and Russian poetry.

Cet ouvrage en impression à la demande sera envoyé sous 3 semaines environ (France métropolitaine) et dans un colis séparé en cas de commande avec un autre livre papier.Le référentiel pédologique est une typologie de´taille´e des sols de notre territoire, de l'Europe, de l'Afrique et des autres continents. Entièrement remanié, ce nouveau millésime du Référentiel pédologique s'est enrichi de trois nouveaux chapitres traitant de solums des zones intertropicales et de leurs horizons de référence spécifiques, ainsi que de deux outils inédits : une clé d'accès rapide aux différents chapitres et une annexe des correspondances possibles entre les références du Référentiel pédologique et les catégories de la World reference Base for soil resources.À l'épreuve du terrain depuis plus de quinze ans, le référentiel pédologique est désormais incontournable. Conçu pour être accessible aux non spécialistes qui maîtrisent le vocabulaire de base de la pédologie, il est indispensable à tous ceux qui doivent prendre en compte la diversité des sols.

Cet ouvrage en impression à la demande sera envoyé sous 3 semaines environ (France métropolitaine) et dans un colis séparé en cas de commande avec un autre livre papier.Cet ouvrage a reçu le label de l'Année internationale de la planète Terre (AIPT).La dégradation du sol a une incidence non négligeable sur l'air et l'eau mais également sur notre santé. Conscient de la pression croissante exercée par l'homme sur les sols, le ministère en charge de l'Environnement a mis en place, depuis 1998, un programme de recherche sur la gestion du patrimoine sol (Gessol). Cet ouvrage synthétise les premiers résultats obtenus par les équipes ayant participé à ce programme. Il fournit ainsi de nouvelles connaissances sur les différents types de dégradation constatés : érosion, tassement, contamination, perte de matière organique et de biodiversité. Il propose également des méthodes alternatives de gestion des sols destinées à préserver durablement leurs fonctions environnementales. Ce texte s'adresse tant aux spécialistes du domaine qu'aux enseignants, décisionnaires et gestionnaires de la ressource en sols.En partenariat avec l'Ademe.

La chimie verte est devenue un axe prioritaire de recherche et de développement. Elle englobe la conception, le développement et l'élaboration des produits et procédés chimiques pour réduire ou éliminer l'usage et la génération des substances dangereuses pour la santé et l'environnement, en inscrivant les modes de fonctionnement actuels de l'industrie chimique dans le cadre plus large du développement durable. Loin de se limiter aux biocarburants, cet ouvrage passe en revue les applications de la chimie verte dans les multiples filières industrielles concernées. L'articulation de ses 5 parties contribue à dépassionner le débat. La première partie est consacrée à la diversité des molécules issues du carbone renouvelable, en insistant notamment sur la lignocellulose et sur les procédés biotechnologiques. La deuxième partie, consacrée aux matériaux, aborde l'ensemble des solutions technologiques disponibles. La troisième partie est axée sur les molécules fonctionnelles et les intermédiaires chimiques (synthons), notamment en sucrochimie et en lipochimie. La quatrième partie aborde les biocarburants, sous l'angle de leur production et de leur utilisation dans les technologies actuelles. La cinquième et dernière partie traite des approches globales aux niveaux environnemental et agricole, qui constituent les chapitres les plus intégratifs de l'ouvrage. La chimie verte s'adresse aux ingénieurs, en activité ou en formation, de toutes les industries transformant les produits agricoles et forestiers à des fins non alimentaires (énergie, lubrifiants, tensioactifs, solvants, traitements de surface, matériaux de conditionnement et de stockage…).

The Carbon Balance of Forest Biomes provides an informed synthesis on the current status of forests and their future potential for carbon sequestration.This volume is timely, since convincing models which scale from local to regional carbon fluxes are needed to support these international agreements, whilst criticisms have been levelled at existing empirical approaches. One key question is to determine how well eddy-flux measurements at the stand-level represent regional-scale processes. This may be related to specific management practices (age, plantation, fertilisation) or simple bias in choosing representative sites (ease of access, roughness, proximity to physical barriers). The ecology and regeneration state of temperate, tropical and boreal forests under current climatic conditions are discussed, together with partitioning of photosynthetic and respiratory fluxes from soils and vegetation. The volume considers how to integrate contrasting methodologies, and the latest approaches for scaling from stand to the planetary boundary layer.

With a complex assemblage of largely intact ecosystems that support the earth's greatest diversity of life, the Amazon basin is a focal point of international scientific interest. And, as development and colonization schemes transform the landscape in increasing measure, scientists from around the world are directing attention to questions of regional and global significance. Some of these qustions are: What are the fluxes of greenhouse gases across the atmospheric interface of ecosystems? How mush carbon is stored in the biomass and soils of the basin? How are elements from the land transferred to the basin's surface waters? What is the sum of elements transferred from land to ocean, and what is its marine'fate'? This book of original chapters by experts in chemical and biological oceanography, tropical agronomy and biology, and the atmospheric sciences will address these and other important questions, with the aim of synthesizing the current knowledge of biochemical processes operating within and between the various ecosystems in the Amazon basin.

Une nouvelle méthode pour désigner les sols et les rattacher à un système de références. Outil irremplaçable pour effectuer des corrélations et transmettre une information riche. Remplace désormais la classification française des sols de 1967. Un langage clair et renouvelé, un outil pratique et efficace. Outre les'principaux sols d'Europe', sont traités ici des sols présents non seulement aux marges méridionales et orientales de notre continent mais aussi des sols répandus largement au Moyen-Orient, en Afrique du Nord, etc.Indispensable pour tous les scientifiques et ingénieurs qui ont à prendre en compte les sols ainsi que pour les enseignants des universités et grandes écoles agronomiques.