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Book (stand-alone)Status of the World’s Soil Resources. Chapter 10: Regional Assessment of Soil Change in Asia 2016
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No results found.This is Chapter 10, "Regional Assessment of Soil Change in Asia," of the report Status of the World’s Soil Resources.This chapter describes the status of soil resources in the member countries of the Asian Soil Partnership (ASP), which includes East Asia Southeast Asia), and South Asia Various aspects of soil change and its impact in the region are discussed in this chapter. National case studies are presented for India, Indonesia and J apan.
The full report has been divided into sections and individual chapters for ease of downloading:
- Introductory information
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: The role of soils in ecosystem processes
- Chapter 3: Global Soil Resources
- Chapter 4: Soils and Humans
- Chapter 5: Drivers of global soil change
- Chapter 6: Global soil status, processes and trends
- Chapter 7: Soil change: impacts and responses
- Chapter 8: Governance and policy responses to soil change
- Chapter 9: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in Africa South of the Sahara
- Chapter 10: Regional Assessment of Soil Change in Asia
- Chapter 11: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in Europe and Eurasia
- Chapter 12: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Chapter 13: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in the Near East and North Africa
- Chapter 14: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in North America
- Chapter 15: Regional Assessment of Soil Change in the Southwest Pacific
- Chapter 16: Regional Assessment of Soil Change in Antarctic a
- Annex: Soil groups, characteristics, distribution and ecosystem services
- Glossary of Technical Terms
- Authors and affiliations
Also available: Technical Summary of the Status of the World’s Soil Resources.
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Book (stand-alone)Status of the World’s Soil Resources. Chapter 15: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in the Southwest Pacific 2016
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No results found.This is Chapter 15, "Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in North America," of the report Status of the World’s Soil Resources. The Southwest Pacific region includes the 22 island nations of the Pacific, New Zealand and Australia). The landscapes of the region are very diverse ranging from a large continental land mass through to tens of thousands of small islands across the enormous expanse of the southwest Pacific Ocean. There are extensi ve ancient flat lands through to some of the youngest and most tectonically active landscapes on the planet. Temperature and rainfall ranges are large because of the breadth of latitudes and elevations. As a consequence, the soils of the region are also diverse. The strongly weathered soils in humid tropical areas and the vast expanses of old soils across the Australian continent are particularly susceptible to disturbance and this is where some of the more intractable problems of soil managemen t occur today. Case studies for soil change are given for Australia, New Zealand and Atoll islands in the Pacific.The full report has been divided into sections and individual chapters for ease of downloading:
- Introductory information
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: The role of soils in ecosystem processes
- < a href="http://www.fao.org/3/a-bc592e.pdf">Chapter 3: Global Soil Resources
- Chapter 4: Soils and Humans
- Chapter 5: Drivers of global soil change
- Chapter 6: Global soil status, processes and trends
- Chapter 7: Soil change: impacts and responses
- Chapter 8: Governance and policy responses to soil change
- Chapter 9: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in Africa South of the Sahara
- Chapter 10: Regional Assessment of Soil Change in Asia
- Chapter 11: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in Europe and Eurasia
- Chapter 12: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Chapter 13: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in the Near East and North Africa
- Chapter 14: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in North America
- Chapter 15: Regional Assessment of Soil Change in the Southwest Pacific Chapter 16: Regional Assessment of Soil Change in Antarctica
- Annex: Soil groups, characteristics, distribution and ecosystem services
- Glossary of Technical Terms
- Authors and affiliations
Also available: Technical Summa ry of the Status of the World’s Soil Resources.
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Book (stand-alone)Status of the World’s Soil Resources. Chapter 9: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in Africa South of the Sahara 2016
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No results found.This is Chapter 9, "Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in Africa South of the Sahara," of the report Status of the World’s Soil Resources.Land degradation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is believed to be expanding at an alarming rate, accompanied by the lowest agriculture and livestock yields of any region in the world. While cereal production has increased marginally over the past two decades, more than 70 percent of this growth is due t o area expansion rather than yield increases.Various aspects of soil change and its impact in the region are discussed in this chapter. National case studies of soil change are given for Senegal and South Africa.
The full report has been divided into sections and individual chapters for ease of downloading:
- Introductory information
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: The role of soils in ecosystem processes
- Chapter 3: Global Soil Resources
- Chapter 4: Soils and Humans
- Chapter 5: Drivers of global soil change
- Chapter 6: Global soil status, processes and trends
- Chapter 7: Soil change: impacts and responses
- Chapter 8: Governance and policy responses to soil change
- Chapter 9: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in Africa South of the Sahara
- Chapter 10: Regional Assessment of Soil Change in Asia
- Chapter 11: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in Europe and Eurasia
- Chapter 12: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Chapter 13: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in the Near East and North Africa
- Chapter 14: Regional Assessment of Soil Changes in North America
- Chapter 15: Regional Assessment of Soil Change in the Southwest Pacific
- Chapter 16: Regional Assessment of Soil Change in Antarctica
- Annex: Soil groups, characteristics, distribution and ecosystem services
- Glossary of Technical Terms
- Authors and affili ations
Also available: Technical Summary of the Status of the World’s Soil Resources.
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