A Provisional Methodology For Soil Degradation Assessment

Soil degradation has serious global impacts on agronomic, economic, and sociopolitical conditions, however, statistics regarding the degree of these impacts has been largely unreliable. This book aims to standardize the methodology for obtaining reliable and objective data on soil degradation. It will also identify and develop criteria for assessing the severity of soil degradation, providing a realistic scenario of the problem.

Presentation and discussion of draft maps; Methods of assessing soil degradation; Desertification and degradation; A methodology for assessing soil degradation; Explanatory note on the first draft of the soil degradation maps; Some aspects of satellite remote sensing in soil degradation mapping.

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Soil degradation has serious global impacts on agronomic, economic, and sociopolitical conditions, however, statistics regarding the degree of these impacts has been largely unreliable. This book aims to standardize the methodology for obtaining reliable and objective data on soil degradation. It will also identify and develop criteria for assessing the severity of soil degradation, providing a realistic scenario of the problem.