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Shifting Ground: Changing Agricultural Soils China & Indonesia by P Lindert HCDJ
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- ISBN
- 9780262122276
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262122278
ISBN-13
9780262122276
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1617219
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
364 Pages
Publication Name
Shifting Ground : the Changing Agricultural Soils of China and Indonesia
Language
English
Subject
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Agriculture / Tropical Agriculture, Agriculture / General
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Technology & Engineering, Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
24.9 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
00-020373
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"This book significantly advances our empirical understanding of China's and Indonesia's twentieth-century soil chemistries and alerts us to a number of analytical and empirical difficulties we face in assessing soil quality specifically and human impacts on the environment more generally." -R. Bin Wong, Professor of History and Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
631.4/951
Synopsis
Peter Lindert evaluates environmental concerns about soil degradation in two very large countries--China and Indonesia--where anecdotal evidence has suggested serious problems. In this book Peter Lindert evaluates environmental concerns about soil degradation in two very large countries--China and Indonesia--where anecdotal evidence has suggested serious problems. Lindert does what no scholar before him has done: using new archival data sets, he measures changes in soil productivity over long enough periods of time to reveal the influence of human activity. China and Indonesia are good test cases because of their geography and history. China has been at the center of global concerns about desertification and water erosion, which it may have accelerated with intense agriculture. Most of Indonesia's lands were created by volcanoes and erosion, and its rapid deforestation and shifting slash-burn agriculture have been singled out for international censure. Lindert's investigation suggests that human mismanagement is not on average worsening the soil quality in China and Indonesia. Human cultivation lowers soil nitrogen and organic matter, but has offsetting positive effects. Economic development and rising incomes may even lead to better soil. Beyond the importance of Lindert's immediate findings, this book opens a new area of study--quantitative soil history--and raises the standard for debating soil trends., Peter Lindert evaluates environmental concerns about soil degradation in two very large countries-China and Indonesia-where anecdotal evidence has suggested serious problems., Peter Lindert evaluates environmental concerns about soil degradation in two very large countries--China and Indonesia--where anecdotal evidence has suggested serious problems.
LC Classification Number
S599.6.C5L56 2000
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