Land Use in Advancing Agriculture

ISBN-13: 9783642660511 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 396 str.

A. P. a. Vink

Opis

The Advanced Series in Agricultural Sciences is designed to ftll a long-felt need for advanced educational and technological books in the agricultural sciences. These texts, intended primarily for students of agriculture, should also provide up-to-date technical background reading for the many agricultural workers in extension services, educational systems, or international bodies. The editors of Advanced Series in Agricultural Sciences will select key subjects relating to the agricultural environment, agricultural physics and chemistry, soil science, plant sciences, animal sciences, food technology, and agricultural engineering for a critical and synthetic appraisal. An initial theoretical presentation will be used by authors of individual volumes in the series to develop a technical approach-including examples and practical solutions- to each subject. In addressing the advanced undergraduate and early graduate student of agriculture, selected authors will present the latest information, leavened with the lessons learned from their own experience, on precise and well-defined topics. Such books that widen the horizons of the student of agriculture can serve, too, as useful reference sources for the young specialist in the early years of his career. Many specialists who are involved in teaching agricultural science are isolated from universities and research institutions. This series will bring them up-to-date scientific information, thus keeping them in touch with progress. The basic objective of Advanced Series in Agricultural Sciences is to effect a structural integration of the theoretic and technical approaches to agriculture.

Spis treści

1: Introduction.- 1.1 Definitions.- 1.2 Anthropological, Historical, and Institutional Aspects of Land Use.- 1.3 Resources-Aspects of Land Use.- Present and Potential Land Use.- 2: Land Use Surveys.- 2.1 Principles of Land Use Surveys.- 2.2 Various Kinds of Land Use Surveys.- 2.3 Modern Survey Techniques.- 3: Land Utilization Types.- 3.1 General.- 3.2 Agricultural Land Utilization Types.- 3.3 Typology of Agricultural Land Utilization.- 3.4 Non-Agricultural Land Utilization Types.- 4: Land Resources.- 4.1 General Introduction.- 4.2 Climate, Geology, Relief.- 4.2.1 Climate.- 4.2.2 Geology and Relief.- 4.3 Soil and Water Resources.- 4.3.1 Soils.- 4.3.2 Water Conditions.- 4.4 Other Land Resources.- 4.4.1 Artifactial Resources.- 4.4.2 Vegetation Resources.- 5: Landscape Ecology and Land Conditions.- 5.1 General.- 5.2 Landscape Ecology.- 5.3 Land Resources Surveys.- 5.4 Land Use Requirements.- 5.4.1 Cultural Ecosystems as Dynamic Complexes.- 5.4.2 Crop Requirements.- 5.4.3 Land Management Requirements.- 5.4.4 Crop Responses to Management: Land Productivity.- 5.4.5 Land Degradation.- 5.4.6 Requirements of Non-Agricultural Land Utilization Types.- 5.5 Land Conditions.- 5.5.1 Land Qualities.- 5.5.2 Land Limitations.- 5.5.3 Land Improvement.- 5.5.4 Irrigation.- 6: Land Evaluation.- 6.1 General.- 6.2 Actual Land Suitability and Soil Suitability.- 6.3 Potential Land Suitability.- 6.4 Land Evaluation Classifications.- 6.5 Land Evaluation Procedures.- 6.5.1 General.- 6.5.2 Land Resources Interpretation.- 6.5.3 The Intersector Approach.- 7: Development of Land Use in Advancing Agriculture.- 7.1 General.- 7.2 Land Use Improvement and Land Improvement.- 7.3 New Land Utilization Types.- 7.4 Economic and Ecological Considerations.- References.