Soil Quality, Soil Fertility and Land Management

This is comprehensive book which covers extensive topics like soil quality, soil fertility and land management. Soil serves as an essential resource for maintaining quality of life throughout the world. It performs multiple functions including facilitation of food production, storage of nutrients, waste disposal, storage of water, supporting our structures and environment etc. Maintenance of environmental quality and sustenance of biological productivity promotion of animal and plant health can be achieved by maintaining soil health. The effects of land management practices on soil properties and processes need to be understood to assess environmental and economic sustainability. Topics in this book elucidate multidisciplinary composition of current trends in soil health. It further elaborates the development of remediation strategies and feasible management to preserve and maintain soil health. The book talks about strategies to improve land management with the help of relevant case studies. The importance of characterizing soil properties in order to develop remediation and management strategies has also been emphasized. Introduction of new approaches for indicating soil pollution have been presented vividly in this book. It draws attention towards contemporary management of various environmental scenarios of high concern.