ENGLISH

Soil engineering

By Johan Arvidsson , Thomas Keller (auth.) , Athanasios P. Dedousis , Thomas Bartzanas (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2010
ISBN
9783642036804, 9783642036811, 2009933109, 3642036805
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-03681-1
ISSN
1613-3382
Open Library ID
OL25255537M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5118411 bytes)
Series
Soil biology 20
Edition
1
Pages
230\234
Topic
Technique
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04
Agriculture; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnolo

Description

The agricultural world has changed significantly during the last years. The excessive use of heavy machinery, waste disposal, the use of agrochemicals and new soil cultivation means led to severe problems, which agricultural engineers have to cope with in order to prevent soil from permanent irreversible damage. This Soil Biology volume will update readers on several cutting-edge aspects of sustainable soil engineering including topics such as: soil compaction, soil density increases, soil disturbance and soil fragmentation; soil tillage machineries and optimization of tillage tools; soil traffic and traction, effects of heavy agricultural machines, the use of robotics in agriculture and controlled traffic farming; mechanical weed control, the characterization of soil variability and the recycling of compost and biosolids in agricultural soils.

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