Properties and Management of Soils in the Tropics
Properties and Management of Soils in the Tropics
£88.99
GBPThe long-awaited second edition of this classic textbook expands on the first edition to include advances made in the last four decades, bringing the topic completely up to date. The book addresses critical issues such as whether humanity can feed itself, and whether it can do so in environmentally sound and sustainable ways. Written from agronomic, environmental, and ecological standpoints, the textbook employs a multidisciplinary approach, including policymaking and plant genetic improvements, as well as ecosystem services, climate change, biodiversity, sustainability and resilience. New chapters in this second edition focus on organic carbon in soil, soil biology, soils in relation to livestock production and forestry, and agroforestry. The new edition will again be the go-to textbook for courses on tropical soils, and a reference textbook for soil and agricultural scientists and development professionals working in the tropics.
- Provides a practical perspective for properties and management of soil
- Highlights advances in research of tropical soils, bringing the topic completely up to date
- Relates tropical soil science with the main challenges of sustainability and feeding the population
- Pedro A. Sanchez is the world's leading expert on tropical soils
Product details
January 2019Hardback
9781107176058
690 pages
261 × 212 × 32 mm
1.78kg
85 b/w illus. 12 maps 226 tables
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Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgement
- Part I. The Tropical Environment:
- 1. The natural environment of the tropics
- 2. The human environment of the tropics
- Part II. Pedology, Physics, Chemistry and Biology:
- 3. History of soil science in the tropics
- 4. Soils of the tropics
- 5. Functional capacity classification
- 6. Soil physical properties
- 7. Water
- 8. Mineralogy
- 9. Soil acidity
- 10. Soil biology
- 11. Organic carbon
- Part III. Soil Fertility:
- 12. Soil fertility principles
- 13. Nitrogen
- 14. Phosphorus
- 15. Sulfur
- Part IV. Management Systems:
- 16. Soils and slash and burn agriculture
- 17. Soil management in rice cultivation
- 18. Soils and livestock-based tropical systems
- 19. Soils and tropical tree-based systems
- Index.
