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Agricultural Soil Degradation in Hungary
Soil degradation is a serious phenomenon both in Hungary and worldwide. Although it may be induced by natural causes, human activity, especially in...
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Agricultural Soil Degradation in Germany
Germany is a densely populated and highly developed country with multiple threats on soils still causing their degradation. Soil erosion by wind and...
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Soil Pollution Framework in Europe
This chapter focuses on the history of soil protection in the EU, the state of pollutants in soils and recent visions adopted by the European...
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Agricultural Soil Degradation in Ukraine
The degradation of the arable soils is one of the critical issues for Ukraine’s agriculture production. The agricultural area covers 19 million...
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Impact of Agriculture on Soil Degradation II A European Perspective
This is the second of two volumes that together provide a global overview of the impact of agriculture on soil degradation, tracing the most critical...
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Permaculture enhances carbon stocks, soil quality and biodiversity in Central Europe
Permaculture is proposed as a tool to design and manage agroecological systems in response to the pressing environmental challenges of soil...
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Agricultural Soil Degradation in Australia
Australia is the fifth largest country by size, and one of the most arid in the world. Agriculture is one of the key sectors in terms of spatial...
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Agricultural Soil Degradation in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
Agricultural soil degradation is a global phenomenon that is expected to increase in the future due to agricultural intensification and climate...
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Agricultural Soil Degradation in Croatia
Croatian agriculture has a small impact on the country’s economy (around 4% of the Croatian Gross Domestic Product), but agricultural activities...
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Agricultural Land Degradation in Portugal and Greece
Agricultural land degradation is a global problem affecting food production and other ecosystem services worldwide such as water regulation. It is...
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Urbanisation-driven land degradation and socioeconomic challenges in peri-urban areas: Insights from Southern Europe
Climate change and landscape transformation have led to rapid expansion of peri-urban areas globally, representing new ‘laboratories’ for the study...
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Forest Degradation and Deforestation
Tropical forests are being disturbed by deforestation and forest degradation at an unprecedented pace (Hansen et al. in Science 342:850–853, 2013;...
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Enhanced trends in spectral greening and climate anomalies across Europe
Europe witnessed a strong increase in climate variability and enhanced climate-induced extreme events, such as hot drought periods, mega heat waves,...
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Biochar application regulating soil inorganic nitrogen and organic carbon content in cropland in the Central Europe: a seven-year field study
Biochar incorporation into soil has shown potential, in enhancing nitrogen fertilizer (N-fertilizer) efficacy and soil organic carbon content (SOC)....
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Urbanization-driven soil degradation; ecological risks and human health implications
Urban soils contaminated with heavy metals and pesticide residues are of great concern because of their adverse impact on human health. A total of 66...
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Soil Management in Sustainable Agriculture: Principles and Techniques
The livelihoods and food security of millions of small-scale farmers in South Asia are currently under threat caused by anthropogenic soil...
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In vitro effect-based monitoring of water, sediment and soil from a floodplain restoration site in Central Europe
BackgroundFloodplains are biodiversity hotspots and provide numerous ecosystem services. In recent decades, however, 70–90% of Europe’s floodplains...
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Agricultural Land Degradation in Spain
Soil degradation is a global problem and in Spain is especially important because of its climatic, geographical, and socioeconomic particularities. A...
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Agricultural Land Degradation in Italy
We present an updated state of the art about the land degradation in the Italian agriculture. After preliminary outlines about the main...
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Leaching and degradation of S-Metolachlor in undisturbed soil cores amended with organic wastes
Organic waste (OW) reuse in agriculture is a common practice fostered by benefits in terms of waste recycling and crop production. However, OW...
