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Book Soil Water Conservation  Erosion  and Landslide

Download or read book Soil Water Conservation Erosion and Landslide written by Su-Chin Chen and published by Mdpi AG. This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The predicted climate change is likely to cause extreme storm events and, subsequently, catastrophic disasters, including soil erosion, debris and landslide formation, loss of life, etc. In the decade from 1976, natural disasters affected less than a billion lives. These numbers have surged in the last decade alone. It is said that natural disasters have affected over 3 billion lives, killed on average 750,000 people, and cost more than 600 billion US dollars. Of these numbers, a greater proportion are due to sediment-related disasters, and these numbers are an indication of the amount of work still to be done in the field of soil erosion, conservation, and landslides. Scientists, engineers, and planners are all under immense pressure to develop and improve existing scientific tools to model erosion and landslides and, in the process, better conserve the soil. Therefore, the purpose of this Special Issue is to improve our knowledge on the processes and mechanics of soil erosion and landslides. In turn, these will be crucial in developing the right tools and models for soil and water conservation, disaster mitigation, and early warning systems.

Book Soil Water Conservation  Erosion  and Landslide

Download or read book Soil Water Conservation Erosion and Landslide written by Su-Chin Chen and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The predicted climate change is likely to cause extreme storm events and, subsequently, catastrophic disasters, including soil erosion, debris and landslide formation, loss of life, etc. In the decade from 1976, natural disasters affected less than a billion lives. These numbers have surged in the last decade alone. It is said that natural disasters have affected over 3 billion lives, killed on average 750,000 people, and cost more than 600 billion US dollars. Of these numbers, a greater proportion are due to sediment-related disasters, and these numbers are an indication of the amount of work still to be done in the field of soil erosion, conservation, and landslides. Scientists, engineers, and planners are all under immense pressure to develop and improve existing scientific tools to model erosion and landslides and, in the process, better conserve the soil. Therefore, the purpose of this Special Issue is to improve our knowledge on the processes and mechanics of soil erosion and landslides. In turn, these will be crucial in developing the right tools and models for soil and water conservation, disaster mitigation, and early warning systems.

Book Bibliography on Soil Erosion and Soil and Water Conservation

Download or read book Bibliography on Soil Erosion and Soil and Water Conservation written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography is a list of references to published material on soil erosion and soil and water conservation. Some of these references may not appear to deal directly with erosion or conservation, but they have a pertinent relationship to some phase of the subject.

Book Soil Conservation and Silviculture

Download or read book Soil Conservation and Silviculture written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1994-07-28 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the conservation and improvement of the forest soil. Much emphasis is placed on the use of vegetation in soil conservation afforestation. The first part of the book focuses on the issues of soil erosion and methods of erosion control, in particular the protection of agricultural and forest soils. The main types and manifestations of erosion, (mainly water and wind erosion), are specified and described. Different erosion factors are shown in detail, including the possibilities of qualitative and quantitative determination. Special attention is paid to the precipitation-to-runoff relationships and information on these factors is used for erosion analysis. A detailed review of the regularities of water and wind erosion and the possibilities of the modelling thereof is also presented. In the second part of the book the main emphasis is on the management and control of the destructive action of torrents. Other topics covered include gully control and stabilization, the increase in landslides and management of landslide areas. Students of agriculture specialising in soil improvement will welcome this book, as will all readers interested in the conservation of the forest environment.

Book Experimental Erosion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Xiangzhou Xu
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2020-05-04
  • ISBN : 9811538018
  • Pages : 247 pages

Download or read book Experimental Erosion written by Xiangzhou Xu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to systematically explore experimental erosion by integrating theory, erosion observations, and conservation applications. Although numerous books have been published on soil erosion both in English and in Chinese, none has concentrated on experimental studies on the Loess Plateau of China, in an attempt to establish a new sub-discipline: experimental erosion. One main objective of this book is to highlight monitoring and modeling methods for soil scientists who design and conduct experimental studies on soil loss. Another objective, and the most important one, is to make the results of these experiments more generally available. Accordingly, we have gathered and integrated a broad range of experimental results, both published and unpublished. In-depth discussions of the experimental data and new data processing methods are also included. The work covered here represents exemplary studies in the field of soil erosion and conservation, while the new methods and findings presented will provide practical guidance for controlling soil erosion. Hence the book offers a valuable resource for graduate students, soil erosion scientists and engineers, and soil and water conservationists.

Book Watershed Erosion Processes

Download or read book Watershed Erosion Processes written by Tongxin Zhu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is a fundamental study of watershed erosion and runoff processes. It utilizes decades of soil erosion data to take a comprehensive and balanced approach in covering various watershed erosion processes. While there are many works on soil erosion and conservation, this book fills the gaps in previously published research by focusing more on mass movement, gully erosion, soil piping/tunnel erosion, and the spatial interactions of different erosion processes. Additionally, the book examines erosion processes in extreme rainfall events, something typically absent in short-term studies but discussed in detail here as the book draws on 60 years of research and observations, including 30 years of the author's own investigations of erosion under a wide range of rainfall conditions. The book is divided into 3 parts, and is intended for soil erosion researchers and practitioners, and postgraduate students studying soil erosion and water conservation. Part 1 opens with a comprehensive and critical review of existing literature on soil erosion processes, discusses this book's place among existing literature, and examines the major erosion processes (rainwash, gully erosion, tunnel erosion, and mass movements) including their controlling factors and mechanisms. Part 2 explores the spatial interactions of these different erosion processes to provide a prerequisite for effective design of comprehensive soil erosion control measures in a watershed. Part 3 evaluates the relative significance of these erosion processes in sediment production, the effectiveness of comprehensive soil and water conservation programs, and the applications of watershed modelling in determining the impact of land-use changes on soil erosion and other ecological processes.

Book Soil Conservation

Download or read book Soil Conservation written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Effect of Hydrology on Soil Erosion

Download or read book The Effect of Hydrology on Soil Erosion written by Jesús Rodrigo-Comino and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Special Issue includes manuscripts about soil erosion and degradation processes and the accelerated rates due to hydrological processes and climate change. The new research included in this issue focuses on measurements, modeling, and experiments in field or laboratory conditions developed at different scales (pedon, hillslope, and catchment). This Special Issue received investigations from different parts of the world such as Ethiopia, Morocco, China, Iran, Italy, Portugal, Greece, and Spain, among others. We are happy to see that all papers presented findings characterized as unconventional, provocative, innovative, and methodologically new. We hope that the readers of the journal Water can enjoy and learn about hydrology and soil erosion using the published material, and share the results with the scientific community, policymakers, and stakeholders to continue this amazing adventure, facing plenty of issues and challenges.

Book Impact of Farmland Abandonment on Water Resources and Soil Conservation

Download or read book Impact of Farmland Abandonment on Water Resources and Soil Conservation written by Noemí Lana-Renault and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farmland abandonment is one of the major land use changes occurring in many rural territories, especially in mountainous regions. Without intervention (passive land management), farmland abandonment leads to an expansion of shrubs and forest on formerly cultivated hillslopes and grazing areas. All these land use changes affect the hydrological and geomorphological dynamics of slopes and channels, having important implications for water resources and soil conservation. However, the heterogeneity of abandoned scenarios complicates the assessment of farmland abandonment on water resources and soil conservation. In this Special Issue, we will publish papers that examine the hydrological and geomorphological consequences of farmland abandonment in one (or several) of these abandoned scenarios. Our final purpose is to help water and land managers to select the most sustainable strategy (in terms of water resources and soil conservation) for the land management of marginal rural areas.

Book Semiarid Soil and Water Conservation

Download or read book Semiarid Soil and Water Conservation written by Finkel and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, the erosion and conservation measures discussed are, for the most part, those under unirrigated agriculture. The use of irrigation could cause significant changes in the growing seasons, and in the agricultural calendar, especially in the warmer climates where temperature is not a limiting factor. It is further noted that much of the material in this volume has been prepared with the developing countries of the so-called Third World in mind. In many of these countries there is a dearth of basic data, such as long-term hydrological records, detailed soil and topographic surveys, and experimental results for various types of erosion control measures. Some design procedures cannot be imitated or copied directly from those of the technologically more advanced countries. Consequently, emphasis will be placed, wherever possible, upon simple empirical methods of design, and approximate solutions within the limitations of the available data, technical possibilities, and financial resources of the Third World countries. Much of the numerical data and calculations will be presented in the metric system.

Book Soil Erosion and Conservation

Download or read book Soil Erosion and Conservation written by Royston Philip Charles Morgan and published by Longman Scientific and Technical. This book was released on 1995 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides comprehensive treatment of soil erosion processes and their control and a practical approach of the design of soil conservation methods.

Book Erosion Control in the Northeast

Download or read book Erosion Control in the Northeast written by United States. Soil Conservation Service and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Water Conservation and Erosion Control Measures for Region Nine

Download or read book Water Conservation and Erosion Control Measures for Region Nine written by United States. Soil Conservation Service and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Soil Erosion Research Methods

    Book Details:
  • Author : Soil and Water Conservation Society (U. S.)
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-10-19
  • ISBN : 1351415964
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Soil Erosion Research Methods written by Soil and Water Conservation Society (U. S.) and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Soil Erosion Research Methods retains the themes and layout of the first edition. However, most chapters have been revised and some additional chapters have been added. There are new chapters on modeling wind and water erosion. Extensive revisions and updating have been done in chapters dealing with assessment of erosivity and erodibility, erosion, crop productivity, measuring sediment yield from river basins and field plot techniques. There is extensive updating of current statistics on the global magnitude of soil erosion by water and wind and on denudation rates. Several new authors have made significant improvements in revising and updating available information.

Book Soil Erosion and Conservation in the United States

Download or read book Soil Erosion and Conservation in the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Erosion and Related Land Use Conditions on the Watershed of White Rock Reservoir Near Dallas  Texas

Download or read book Erosion and Related Land Use Conditions on the Watershed of White Rock Reservoir Near Dallas Texas written by United States. Soil Conservation Service and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soil erosion in the Texas blackland has caused widespread and spectacular damage since the land was first plowed, about 1860. - Soil erosion has been the subject of investigations at the Blacklands Soil and Water Conservation Experiment Station, Temple, Tex., which since 1931 has operated jointly by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and the United States Department of Agriculture. Demonstrations in the practical control of soil erosion have also been conducted on projects of the Soil Conservation Service at Temple and Garland, Tex.

Book Soil Erosion  Conservation  and Rehabilitation

Download or read book Soil Erosion Conservation and Rehabilitation written by Menachem Agassi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the latest information regarding the processes and mechanisms responsible for runoff and erosion by water in arable lands--detailing state-of-the-art water and soil conservation methods. Elucidates the rehabilitation of agricultural lands depleted by human activity.