Product Description

With an ever-demanding and increasing population, it is imperative that we slow down or stop land degradation and the consequential lowering of the productive capacity of the land. This text offers guidance on rapid and non-technical methods for measuring and assessing land degradation in the field. It is based on a farmer perspective so that the indicators selected will have meaning and applicability to real situations. The handbook also considers how measurements should be interpreted and shows how combinations of different indicators can give the best conclusions as to the severity of the degradation. The authors show how this information can be incorporated within the design of appropriate conservation technologies. This practical handbook should be a useful tool for professionals in the area of land degradation and for NGOs and their field-workers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #800639 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Review
"The authors have identified and successfully plugged a gap in the land degradation literature. The intended target audience for this book, field workers, will find chapters 4 and 5 extremely useful...Although specifically aimed at small-scale tropical farming in less developed countries, much of what is written is also highly relevant to the assessment of land degradation elsewhere. For its excellent no-nonsense treatment of a wide range of field indicators of degradation and their limitations, this book should be within reach of every land degradation researcher." -- Land Degradation and Development, Vol 13