World Soil Erosion and Conservation

Book Overview

Land degradation from soil erosion has been considered by many to be a problem of significant proportion, affecting some 30-50% of the earth's land surface. At the time of the first publication of this book in 1993, estimates indicated that 10-15 million hectares of land were being lost each year through erosion and salinisation from irrigation and that at such a rate of loss, topsoil reserves on most sloping lands would be depleted within two hundred...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521104718
• ISBN13: 9780521104715
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"