Geotechnical Fundamentals for Addressing New World Challenges [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ning Lu, James K. Mitchell |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (357 pages) |
Disciplina | 624.151 |
Collana | Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering |
Soggetto topico |
Engineering geology
Engineering—Geology Foundations Hydraulics Geotechnical engineering Geochemistry Soil science Soil conservation Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences Soil Science & Conservation |
ISBN | 3-030-06249-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | From the content: The Role of Geotechnics in Addressing New World Problems -- Geosystem Sensing and Measurement -- Soil properties: Physics Inspired, Data Driven -- Linking Soil Water Adsorption to Geotechnical Engineering Properties. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910337606003321 |
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 | ||
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Global Approaches to Site Contamination Law [[electronic resource] /] / by Elizabeth Brandon |
Autore | Brandon Elizabeth |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (387 p.) |
Disciplina | 344.046 |
Soggetto topico |
Environmental law
Environmental policy International environmental law International law Soil science Soil conservation Pollution Environmental management Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice International Environmental Law Sources and Subjects of International Law, International Organizations Soil Science & Conservation Pollution, general Environmental Management |
ISBN |
1-283-91147-7
94-007-5745-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Nature and Extent of Site Contamination -- 3. Current International Law Relating To Site Contamination -- 4. National Site Contamination Law -- 5. Responsibility for Site Contamination -- 6. Promoting National Site Contamination Law: The Challenge of Harmonisation -- 7. An International Response to Site Contamination -- 8. Alternatives to International Law – Other Means of Promoting National Site Contamination Law -- 9. Recommended Features of a Model Law on Site Contamination -- 10. Conclusions and Recommendations. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910437788403321 |
Brandon Elizabeth | ||
Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 | ||
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Global Soil Security [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Damien J. Field, Cristine L.S. Morgan, Alex B. McBratney |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XVIII, 469 p. 102 illus.) |
Disciplina | 363.738745610995 |
Collana | Progress in Soil Science |
Soggetto topico |
Soil science
Soil conservation Climate change Biodiversity Soil Science & Conservation Climate Change Management and Policy |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part I: Rationale for soil security -- Soil security – a rationale -- Soil security: dimensions -- Part II: Capability -- Soil capability: exploring the functional potentials of soils -- Distinguishing between capability and condition -- The value of soil capability in land surface modeling -- Soil capability for the United States now and into the future -- Quantifying soil capability: GlobalSoilMap -- Testing the links between soil security, sustainable land management practices and land evaluation -- Part III: Condition -- General concepts of valuing and caring for soil -- Soil health: challenges and opportunities -- Using soil survey to assess and predict soil condition and change -- Root-microbe interactions in response to soil conditions -- Securing our soil in intense monoculture cropping systems -- Soil organic carbon stocks and soil respiration in tropical secondary forests in southern Mexico -- Simulating impacts of bioenergy sorghum residue return on soil organic carbon and greenhouse gas emissions using the Daycent model -- Cover crop effects on soil carbon and nitrogen under bioenergy sorghum crops -- Part IV: Capital -- Energy, economics, climate change and soil security -- Understanding soils’ contribution to ecosystem services provision to inform farm system analysis -- The dollars and cents of soil health -- The value of soil’s contributions to ecosystem services -- Economics of land degradation contribution to soil security in Eurasia -- Social license and soil security -- Part V: Connectivity -- Soil renaissance and the connection to land managers -- Links between soil security and the influence of soils on human health -- Soil contamination and human health: a major challenge for global soil security -- The measurement of soil security in terms of human health: examples and ideas -- The meta soil model: an integrative multi-model framework for soil security -- Integrating new perspectives to address global soil security: ideas from integral ecology -- Applying the meta soil model: the connections between soil security and water security in a permanent protection area in Brazil -- Bridging the research-management gap to restore ecosystem function and social resilience -- Engendering connectivity to soil through aesthetics -- The role of master gardeners in providing horticulture education to Marion County residents -- Soil –water-food nexus: a public policy perspective -- Whose “security” is important?: communicating risk about soil to a diverse population -- Part VI: Codification -- Save the soil to save the planet -- Protection of the soil resource in the Brazilian environmental legislation -- Creating incentives for improved soil health through the federal crop insurance program -- U.S. farm programs and the impacts on national and international soil security -- Soil security for agricultural productivity: the policy disconnect and a promising future -- Securitisation -- The place of soil in international government policy -- Translating soil science knowledge to public policy -- Synthesis: goals to achieve soil security. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910149461303321 |
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 | ||
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Grain by Grain [[electronic resource] ] : A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food / / by Bob Quinn, Liz Carlisle |
Autore | Quinn Bob |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC : , : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : , : Imprint : Island Press, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 268 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina |
633.1/1
631.5/84 |
Soggetto topico |
Agriculture
Sustainable development Soil science Soil conservation Nutrition Sustainable Development Soil Science & Conservation Nutrition |
ISBN |
1-64283-244-8
1-61091-996-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Prologue by Liz Carlisle -- Introduction: Food on the Cheap -- Roots and Growth -- Better Farming through Chemistry?- Beyond Commodities -- Going Organic -- King Tut’s Wheat -- King Tut’s Wheat -- Growing -- Partners -- A Cowboy in Europe -- Creating a New Standard -- The Value of Limits -- Taste of Place -- Recycling Energy -- Bringing Rural Jobs Back -- The Gluten Mystery -- Food as Medicine -- One Great Subject -- Rejecting the Status Quo -- Conclusion: A New Generation of Growers and Eaters -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910377841403321 |
Quinn Bob | ||
Washington, DC : , : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : , : Imprint : Island Press, , 2019 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Green Technologies and Infrastructure to Enhance Urban Ecosystem Services [[electronic resource] ] : Proceedings of the Smart and Sustainable Cities Conference 2018 / / edited by Viacheslav Vasenev, Elvira Dovletyarova, Zhongqi Cheng, Riccardo Valentini, Carlo Calfapietra |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 pages) |
Disciplina | 307.12 |
Collana | Springer Geography |
Soggetto topico |
Regional planning
Urban planning Urban ecology (Biology) Sustainable development Soil science Soil conservation Environmental geography Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning Urban Ecology Sustainable Development Soil Science & Conservation Environmental Geography |
ISBN | 3-030-16091-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910366646403321 |
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020 | ||
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Guideline for Salinity Assessment, Mitigation and Adaptation Using Nuclear and Related Techniques [[electronic resource] /] / by Mohammad Zaman, Shabbir A. Shahid, Lee Heng |
Autore | Zaman Mohammad |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, : Springer Nature, 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XXVI, 164 p. 56 illus., 48 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 631.4 |
Soggetto topico |
Soil science
Soil conservation Water quality Water pollution Agriculture Plant science Botany Environmental management Soil Science & Conservation Water Quality/Water Pollution Plant Sciences Environmental Management |
Soggetto non controllato |
Environment
Soil science Soil conservation Water quality Water pollution Agriculture Plant science Botany Environmental management |
ISBN | 3-319-96190-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter – 1: Introduction to Soil Salinity, Sodicity and Diagnostics Techniques -- Chapter – 2: Soil Salinity: Historical Perspectives and a World Overview of the Problem -- Chapter – 3: Salinity and Sodicity Adaptation and Mitigation Options -- Chapter – 4: Irrigation Systems and Zones of Salinity Development -- Chapter – 5: Irrigation Water Quality -- Chapter – 6: The role of Nuclear Techniques in Saline Agriculture. . |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910299380903321 |
Zaman Mohammad | ||
Cham, : Springer Nature, 2018 | ||
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Gully Erosion Studies from India and Surrounding Regions [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Pravat Kumar Shit, Hamid Reza Pourghasemi, Gouri Sankar Bhunia |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XXII, 480 p. 293 illus., 267 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 551.41 |
Collana | Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation, IEREK Interdisciplinary Series for Sustainable Development |
Soggetto topico |
Geomorphology
Environmental management Geographical information systems Soil science Soil conservation Geology Hydrogeology Environmental Management Geographical Information Systems/Cartography Soil Science & Conservation |
ISBN | 3-030-23243-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Spatial Extent, Formation Process, Reclaimability Classification System and Restoration Strategies of Gully and Ravine Lands in India -- Soil Disintegration Characteristics on Ephemeral Gully Collapsing in Lateritic Belt of West Bengal, India -- Modeling of Gully Erosion Based on Random Forest Using GIS and R -- Geomorphic Threshold and SCS-CN-Based Runoff and Sediment Yield Modelling in the Gullies of Dwarka–Brahmani Interfluve, West Bengal, India -- Assessing Gully Asymmetry Based on Cross-Sectional Morphology: A Case of Gangani Badland of West Bengal, India -- The Potential Gully Erosion Risk Mapping of River Dulung Basin, West Bengal, India Using AHP Method -- Application of Field-Monitoring Techniques to Determine Soil Loss by Gully Erosion in a Watershed in Deccan, India -- Gully Erosion Susceptibility Mapping Based on Bayesian Weight of Evidence -- Understanding the Morphology and Development of a Rill-Gully: An Empirical Study of Khoai Badland, West Bengal, India -- Estimation of Erosion Susceptibility and Sediment Yield in Ephemeral Channel Using RUSLE and SDR Model: Tropical Plateau Fringe Region, India -- Assessment of Potential Land Degradation in Akarsa Watershed, West Bengal, Using GIS and Multi-influencing Factor Technique -- Using Ground-Based Photogrammetry for Fine-Scale Gully Morphology Studies: Some Examples -- Effects of Grass on Runoff and Gully Bed Erosion: Concentrated Flow Experiment -- Water Flow-Induced Gully Erosion in Himalayan Watershed Cum Plateau and Alluvial Plains -- Influence of Road-Stream Crossing on the Initiation of Gully: Case Study from the Terai Region of Eastern India -- Land Degradation Processes of Silabati River Basin, West Bengal, India: A Physical Perspective -- Assessment of Gully Erosion and Estimation of Sediment Yield in Siddheswari River Basin, Eastern India, Using SWAT Model -- Role of Plant Roots to Control Rill-Gully Erosion: Hydraulic Flume Experiment -- Bamboo-Based Technology for Resource Conservation and Management of Gullied Lands in Central India -- Soil Erosion Protection on Hilly Regions Using Plant Roots: An Experimental Insight -- Planning, Designing and Construction of Series of Check Dams for Soil and Water Conservation in a Micro-watershed of Gujarat, India -- Impacts of Gully Erosion on River Water Quality and Fish Resources: A Case Study -- Gully Erosion in I. R. Iran: Characteristics, Processes, Causes, and Land Use -- Factors Affecting Gully-Head Activity in a Hilly Area Under a Semiarid Climate in Iran -- Topographic Threshold of Gully Erosion in Iran: A Case Study of Fars, Zanjan, Markazi and Golestan Provinces -- A Review on the Gully Erosion and Land Degradation in Iran -- Mapping and Preparing a Susceptibility Map of Gully Erosion Using the MARS Model -- Gully Erosion Susceptibility Assessment Through the SVM Machine Learning Algorithm (SVM-MLA) -- Data Mining Technique (Maximum Entropy Model) for Mapping Gully Erosion Susceptibility in the Gorganrood Watershed, Iran -- Land Degradation and Community Resilience in Rural Mountain Area of Java, Indonesia -- Spatial Analysis and Prediction of Soil Erosion in a Complex Watershed of Cameron Highlands, Malaysia. |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020 | ||
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Hazard Analysis of Seismic Soil Liquefaction [[electronic resource] /] / by Yu Huang, Miao Yu |
Autore | Huang Yu |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XX, 165 p. 112 illus., 87 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 624.151 |
Collana | Springer Natural Hazards |
Soggetto topico |
Geotechnical engineering
Engineering design Civil engineering Soil science Soil conservation Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences Engineering Design Civil Engineering Soil Science & Conservation |
ISBN | 981-10-4379-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Macroscopic Characteristics of Seismic Liquefaction -- Liquefaction Potential Evaluation Based on In situ Testing -- Laboratory Experimental Study on Dynamic Characteristics of Liquefiable Soil -- Physical Model Testing for Dynamic Characteristics of Seismic Soil Liquefaction -- Numerical Simulation for Deformation of Liquefiable Soils -- Comprehensive Evaluation for Liquefaction Damage During Earthquakes. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910254005803321 |
Huang Yu | ||
Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Heavy Metal Contamination of Soils [[electronic resource] ] : Monitoring and Remediation / / edited by Irena Sherameti, Ajit Varma |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (499 p.) |
Disciplina |
363.7063
570 630 631.4 |
Collana | Soil Biology |
Soggetto topico |
Agriculture
Environmental monitoring Soil science Soil conservation Monitoring/Environmental Analysis Soil Science & Conservation |
ISBN | 3-319-14526-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Sources of heavy metals in soils -- Monitoring heavy metals in soils -- Adaption strategies of plants and bacteria in response to heavy metals -- Approaches for the remediation of contaminated soils -- Genetic engineering – a tool to cleaning up contaminated. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910298294503321 |
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 | ||
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Heavy Metals in Soils [[electronic resource] ] : Trace Metals and Metalloids in Soils and their Bioavailability / / edited by Brian J. Alloway |
Edizione | [3rd ed. 2013.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (614 p.) |
Disciplina | 546 |
Collana | Environmental Pollution |
Soggetto topico |
Soil science
Soil conservation Geochemistry Plant physiology Pollution Environmental monitoring Soil Science & Conservation Plant Physiology Pollution, general Monitoring/Environmental Analysis |
ISBN |
1-283-52987-4
9786613842329 94-007-4470-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Section 1: Basic Principles: Introduction.-Sources of Heavy Metals and Metalloids in Soils -- Chemistry of Heavy Metals and Metalloids in Soils -- Methods for the Determination of Heavy Metals and Metalloids in Soils -- Effects of Heavy Metals and Metalloids on Soil Organisms -- Soil-Plant Relationships of Heavy Metals and Metalloids -- Heavy Metals and Metalloids as Micronutrients for Plants and Animals.-Critical Loads of Heavy Metals for Soils -- Section 2: Key Heavy Metals And Metalloids: Arsenic -- Cadmium -- Chromium and Nickel -- Cobalt and Manganese -- Copper.-Lead -- Mercury -- Selenium -- Zinc -- Section 3: Other Heavy Metals And Metalloids Of Potential Environmental Significance: Antimony -- Barium -- Gold -- Molybdenum -- Silver -- Thallium -- Tin -- Tungsten -- Uranium -- Vanadium -- Glossary of Specialized Terms -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910437952403321 |
Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 | ||
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