Soils As a Key Component of the Critical Zone 3: Soils and Water Circulation (3) - Couverture rigide

 
9781786302175: Soils As a Key Component of the Critical Zone 3: Soils and Water Circulation (3)
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ISBN 10 : 1786302179 ISBN 13 : 9781786302175
Editeur : ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2018

Synopsis

This book invites the reader to look differently at two seemingly mundane resources: soil and water. Water possesses extraordinary properties which form the foundations of life itself. Without water, there would be no life, and without soils, no terrestrial life. The interaction between soils and water is therefore fundamental to the habitability of Earth's land surface.

Through in-depth analyses and experimentation, Soils as a Key Component of the Critical Zone 3 explores the circulation of water in soils. Through its properties, soil directs the path of water, leading it to wet soils or not, be absorbed by plants, infiltrate or runoff, concentrate in certain areas or flood. The potentially catastrophic consequences of such floods are often due to the absence or insufficiency of prevention measures.

This book thus shows the ways in which the relationship between water, life and soils is much more than a simple series of interactions or phenomena at interfaces and in fact constitutes a system with definite properties.

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À propos de l?auteur

Guilhem Bourrié, a member of the Académie d'Agriculture de France, is a pedologist and geochemist.

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Éditeur
ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1786302179
ISBN 13 
9781786302175
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
192
Éditeur
Bourrié Guilhem
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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