Soil Sciences Books

New and Published Books

1. Handbook of Tropical Residual Soils Engineering

   Edited by Bujang B.K. Huat, David G. Toll, Arun Prasad

   Residual soils are found in many parts of the world. Like other soils, they are used extensively in construction, either to build upon, or as construction material. They are formed when the rate of rock weathering is more rapid than transportation of the weathered particles by e.g., water, gravity...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by CRC Press
2. Rainwater Harvesting for Agriculture in the Dry Areas

   By Theib Y. Oweis, Dieter Prinz, Ahmed Y. Hachum

   Dry areas suffer not only from limited rainfall but also ‘natural leakage’ - 90% of rainwater is lost directly or indirectly, and is unavailable for agriculture or domestic use. Water harvesting is a low-cost, easy-to-use, environmentally-friendly way to recover a large part of this lost water. How...

   Published May 20th 2012 by CRC Press
3. Remote Sensing of Soil Salinization

   Impact on Land Management

   Edited by Dr. Graciela Metternicht, Dr. Alfred Zinck

   Recognized and advocated as a powerful tool, the role of remote sensing in identifying, mapping, and monitoring soil salinity and salinization will continue to expand. Remote Sensing of Soil Salinization: Impact on Land Management delineates how to combine science and geospatial technologies for...

   Published December 11th 2008 by CRC Press
4. Climate Change and Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration in Central Asia

   Edited by Rattan Lal, M. Suleimenov, B.A. Stewart, D.O. Hansen, Paul Doraiswamy

   This book brings together current knowledge of terrestrial C sequestration in Central Asia. The themes treated include: biophysical environments, water resources, sustainable agriculture, soil degradation, the effects of irrigation schemes on secondary salinization, soil management and its...

   Published August 1st 2007 by Taylor & Francis
5. Conservation Tillage Systems and Water Productivity - Implications for Smallholder Farmers in Semi-Arid Ethiopia

   PhD, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands

   By Melesse Temesgen Leye

   Conservation tillage systems have been adopted by farmers in many countries to solve the problem of land degradation and declining water productivity. Direct application of such tillage systems has not been possible among resource-poor, smallholder farmers in semi-arid areas of Ethiopia. Problems...

   Published July 17th 2007 by Taylor & Francis
6. Soil and Water Contamination

   From Molecular to Catchment Scale

   By Marcel van der Perk

   This textbook provides an overview of transport and fate processes of environmental contamination, in such a way that the reader can both understand and predict contaminant patterns in soil, groundwater, and surface water. In contract to most existing texts, soil and water pollution are treated as...

   Published August 9th 2006 by Taylor & Francis
7. Foundation Engineering

   Design and Construction in Tropical Soils

   Edited by B.B.K. Huat, Faisal Haji Ali, Husaini Omar, Harwant Singh

   Residual soils are found in many parts of the world. Like other soils, they are used extensively in construction, being built upon and used as construction materials. Residual soils are formed when the processes of rock weathering proceed at a faster rate than the transport processes by water,...

   Published January 18th 2006 by Taylor & Francis
8. Advanced Experimental Unsaturated Soil Mechanics

   Proceedings of the International Symposium on Advanced Experimental Unsaturated Soil Mechanics, Trento, Italy, 27-29 June 2005

   Edited by Alessandro Tarantino, E. Romero, Y.J. Cui

   The field of experimental unsaturated soil mechanics has grown considerably over the last decade. In the laboratory and in the field, innovative techniques have been introduced into mechanical, hydraulic, and geo-environmental testing. Normally, this information is widely dispersed throughout...

   Published July 13th 2005 by Taylor & Francis
9. Landslide Risk Management

   Edited by Oldrich Hungr, Robin Fell, Réjean Couture, Erik Eberhardt

   Landslide Risk Management comprises the proceedings of the International Conference on Landslide Risk Management, held in Vancouver, Canada, from May 31 to June 3, 2005. The first part of the book contains state-of-the-art and invited lectures, prepared by teams of authors selected for their...

   Published June 29th 2005 by Taylor & Francis
10. Stabilisation/Solidification Treatment and Remediation

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Stabilisation/Solidification Treatment and Remediation, 12-13 April 2005, Cambridge, UK

    Edited by Amir Al Tabbaa, Julia A. Stegemann

    Stabilisation/Solidification Treatment and Remediation - Advances in S/S for Waste and Contaminated Land contains 39 papers, summaries of the four keynote lectures and the seven State of Practice reports presented at the International Conference organized by the EPSRC-funded network STARNET (...

    Published May 28th 2005 by Taylor & Francis