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<p><P>Completely revised and updated, incorporating almost a decade’s worth of developments in this field, <b>Environmental Soil Science, Third Edition,</b> explores the entire reach of the subject, beginning with soil properties and reactions and moving on to their relationship to environmental properties and reactions. Keeping the organization and writing style that made previous editions bestsellers, the author addresses the definitions of environmental science, ecology, and soil science, underscoring their combination into environmental soil science.<P>The book highlights the live biological constituents that make up the soil, exploring the changes made by agricultural operations and other human activities that lead to changes in the environment and our natural ecosystem. These include causes, effects, and solutions for acid rain, global warming, and destruction of the ozone layer. The author also provides extensive coverage of soilless agriculture, hydroponics, fish farming, vanishing biodiversity due to the destruction of jungles and the rain forest, and what to do about it.<P>New in the Third Edition: <P><ul><P><li>Al Gore’s Nobel Prize winning politics on gl
- Author
- Kim Howard Tan
- Publisher
- CRC; CRC Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781420072808
- Subjects
- Science, Technology, Agriculture
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