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AUTHOR
Dazzi C.
Anthropogenic Soils and Soil Security: environmetal and economic consideration.
Since ancient times Man and Soil have experienced interwoven links. Nowadays soil scientists continue to stress such links highlighting the importance of soil to provide man’s growing demand for food, water and energy, and also the soil’s importance in providing ecosystem services that affect climate change, human health and biodiversity. In soil management for agricultural purposes, pedotechniques to tailor soils suitable for table grapes cultivation in large-scale farming are used to get substantial financial returns. However farmers, in tailoring soils for high income crops, frequently do not take into account the fundamental objective of the pedotechnique, i. e. to meet the needs of man…
Morphogenetic characteristics of chernozem leached in mining enterprises pollution conditions
The article presents the results of comparative studies on the uncontaminated (virgin) leached chernozem soil in terms of heavy metal contamination due to zinc plant operations. Study object location is given. The territory under the influence of plant emissions is devoid of vegetation. Everywhere on the soil surface there are manifestations of deep erosion processes and continuous erosion of the topsoil. Soil cuts with morphogenetic descriptions, physical, physico-chemical and biological characteristics of the soil were laid at the objects. The soil cover under the influence of pollution has undergone degradation and led to transformational processes of particle size distribution, humus co…
Our Soils: No Longer Crypto-Resources
We all have to consider the soil as a good for a human society that is continuously changing and in which the boost toward a continuous economic growth and a rapid technological development, coupled with the progressive increase of the information, often causes considerable and unpredictable changes. The achievement of these goals is based on a sound and comprehensive knowledge of the soils of each country. I wish to welcome the book The Soils of Egypt and to congratulate with the authors.