Overview
- Uses photographs to the widest extent possible for visualization of soil–environment interaction
- Unifies the composition of chapter sections to facilitate cross-reference among all chapters
- Brings together new data from many institutes and universities
Part of the book series: International Perspectives in Geography (IPG)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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About this book
The book includes information with new data produced by active researchers from many institutes and universities as it refers to soils altered by human activities and thus is informative to specialists in various disciplines related to soils. It is also valuable to students for viewing soils in cities, infrastructure construction areas, and other affected locations. Evaluation and understanding of soils now has become essential for researchers in a range of fields and for policy makers in agriculture as well as urban planning, civil engineering, and disaster sciences. This work serves as an impetus for launching further study of soils and environments.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Masayuki Kawahigashi is associate professor of environmental geography in the Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. He is a delegate of the Japanese Society of Soil Sciences and Plant Nutrition, a consilor of Japanese Society of Pedology, a subject editor of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition (2013–2015, 2017–2018), and a visiting associate professor at the Faculty of Earth Sciences of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland (2018). He was a visiting scientist at the University of Bayreuth (2002) and at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2003–2004). He focuses on dynamics of elements in ecosystems of various climatic zones from boreal to tropical regions, also addressing soil and water in agricultural and urban systems to understand anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems. Soils in anthropized environments are his latest challenges in researching soils from several different scientific points of view.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Anthropogenic Soils in Japan
Editors: Makiko Watanabe, Masayuki Kawahigashi
Series Title: International Perspectives in Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1753-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-1752-1Published: 23 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4675-0Published: 11 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-1753-8Published: 11 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2197-7798
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7801
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 186
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 84 illustrations in colour
Topics: Physical Geography, Soil Science & Conservation, Environmental Geography