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Soils Under Stress

More Work for Soil Science in Ukraine

  • Provides further valuable insights from experience as well as new data

  • Presents case studies from Eastern Europe, the birthplace of soil science where a unique school of thought and practice has been maintained

  • Highlights results from a century of large-scale, unplanned experiments in land use and misuse that its professionals have to deal with – Chernobyl is notorious but by no means the biggest or longest running

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Policy Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Conceptualizing Sustainable Management of Soil Organic Carbon

      • Anatolii Kucher, Lesia Kucher, Antonina Broyaka
      Pages 3-16
    3. Status and Problems of Normative Monetary Valuation of Land in Ukraine

      • Igor Iatsuk, Yuriy Dmytruk, Vasyl Cherlinka, David Dent
      Pages 17-26
    4. An Investable Proposal to Transform the Steppe

      • David Dent, Boris Boincean, Zhanguo Bai
      Pages 27-34
  3. Pedology and Soil Survey

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
    2. Creating Digital Elevation Models Using Budget Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

      • Andrii Achasov, Arkadiy Siedov, Alla Achasova, Ganna Titenko, Oleg Seliverstov
      Pages 37-48
    3. Determination of Eroded Chernozem on the Right-Bank Steppe of Ukraine Using the Soil Line

      • Sergiy Chornyy, Dmitriy Abramov, Daria Sadova
      Pages 49-56
    4. Identification of the Structure of Soil Cover by Magnetic Susceptibility

      • Mykola Miroshnychenko, Oleksandr Kruglov, Pavlo Nazarok, Stanislav Kovalenko
      Pages 57-68
    5. Specificity of Processes in Hydromorphic Soils

      • Roman Truskavetskiy, Victoriya Zubkovskaya, Iryna Khyzhniak, Natalya Palamar
      Pages 69-78
    6. Transformation of Physical Indicators of Soil Fertility in Typical Chernozem of the Eastern Forest-Steppe of Ukraine

      • Yurii Dehtiar’ov, Dmytro Havva, Natalia Kovalzhy, Sergiy Rieznik
      Pages 105-110
    7. Zoogenic Structure Aggregation in Steppe and Forest Soils

      • Volodymyr Yakovenko, Olexandr Zhukov
      Pages 111-127
  4. Regional Assessments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
    2. Status and Future of Drained and Technogenically Degraded Peatlands in Western Polissia

      • Andrii Bortnik, Volodymyr Gavryliuk, Tetyana Bortnik
      Pages 131-141
    3. Agro-Ecological Assessment of the Farmlands of the Hologoro-Kremenetskiy Highlands

      • Oksana Haskevych, Volodymyr Snitynskyy, Petro Hnativ, Natalia Lahush, Volodymyr Haskevych, Viktor Ivaniuk
      Pages 143-151
    4. Comparative Evaluation of the Sandy Soils of Pine Forests in Ukraine

      • Svitlana Raspopina, Vasylii Degtyarjov, Olena Chekar
      Pages 153-159
  5. Better Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161

About this book

Dokuchaev carried out most of his research in Ukraine. His student and friend, Volodymyr Vernadsky, went on to create trans-disciplinary environmental sciences and the concept of Earth as a living organism, famously taken up by James Lovelock. That spring of ideas still flows and the researches captured in this volume are relevant to present-day problems, and not only in Ukraine.

Soils have always been under stress but, in the Anthropocene, mankind is in the driving seat. As a sequel to Soil Science Working for a Living: Applications of soil science to present-day problems, we consider issues of policy as well as soil genesis, attributes and functions in various environments, natural and man-made. We consider human impacts on the soil cover through its use and misuse, highlight methods of research and assessment of soil quality, and the threats of soil degradation. The distinguished contributors also describe and propose various options for evaluation and remediation of degraded soils, drawing on the latest methods of modelling and cartography as well as long-term field experiments and long experience.

The book will be invaluable to researchers and practitioners in soil science including graduate and post-graduate education, academics and professionals.

Keywords

  • soil form and function
  • physical and chemical attributes
  • mapping
  • monitoring
  • crop production
  • soil fertility
  • soil degradation
  • soil health
  • environmental services
  • sustainable land use
  • Environmental Geography

Editors and Affiliations

  • Agrotechnology and Soil Science Department, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

    Yuriy Dmytruk

  • Chestnut Tree Farm, Forncett End, UK

    David Dent

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Soils Under Stress

  • Book Subtitle: More Work for Soil Science in Ukraine

  • Editors: Yuriy Dmytruk, David Dent

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68394-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68393-1

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68396-2

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-68394-8

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 255

  • Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Soil Science, Ecology, Physical Geography, Agriculture

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eBook EUR 96.29
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  • ISBN: 978-3-030-68394-8
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  • Readable on all devices
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Softcover Book EUR 131.99
Price includes VAT (Finland)
Hardcover Book EUR 131.99
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