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Global Degradation of Soil and Water Resources

Regional Assessment and Strategies

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  • Enriches understanding of soil and water conservation at global scale
  • Presents an overview of global soil erosion, current status and trend
  • Summarizes the practice, opportunities and challenges of soil and water conservation

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Table of contents (34 chapters)

  1. Introduction—Overview of Global Soil and Water Stress

  2. African Region

  3. American Region

  4. Asian Region

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About this book

This book focuses on soil and water conservation at global scale. It is a serious environmental problem that will threaten the socio-economic well-being of the majority of global population in future. The book examines the current situation of land degradation in multiple regions of the world and offers alternative approaches to solve the problems through sharing advanced technologies and lessons learned. It provides comprehensive assessment on characteristics, level and effect of degradation in different regions. It’s a highly informative reference both for researchers and graduate students.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, CAS/MWR and NWUAF, Yangling, China

    Rui Li

  • The Ohio State University, Mount Gilead, USA

    Ted L. Napier

  • Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA

    Samir A. El-Swaify

  • Soil and Water Conservation, National School of Forest Engineering, Ministry of Agriculture, Sale, Morocco

    Mohamed Sabir

  • University of Buenos Aires, Lexington, USA

    Eduardo Rienzi

About the editors

Rui Li is the president of World Association of Soil and Water Conservation (WASWAC). Since 1972 he has been involved in research on soil and water conservation planning, land resources investigation and monitoring of soil erosion using remote sensing, and made research achievements and contribution to regional soil and water conservation, application of remote sensing and GIS. He finished more than 30 projects as the leader or chief scientist, and 12 projects have been awarded at national and provincial levels. He has more than 130 papers published on the journals and international conferences and 15 books published as the chief editor or co-editor.

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