A decision-support model for soil conservation Case study on the Loess Plateau, China
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
On the sandy alfisols of the cotton belt of Northern Cameroon, conventional intensive cropping based on soil tillage and mineral fertilizers application does not prevent soil degradation or free farmers from shifting cultivation. The aim of this study was to characterize degradation of these soils under intensive cropping, and to develop ways for r...
Germany
Germany
The project was to continue the syndromal approach develoed by the Scientific Council to the German Federal Government, ''Global Environmental Changes'' (WBGU), both in terms of contents and of methodology. In the context of this transdisciplinary approach to an analysis of global change, the experts identified the main symptoms or trends of global...
A basis to monitor erosion shear stress of tidal flat surfaces by means of optical remote sensing has been developed. Erosion shear stress and corresponding bio-geochemical parameters of different tidal flats were measured during five years in the Sylt/Roemoe Bight in Germany. A significant dependence between the erosion shear stress and the benthi...
SIGLE / Available from TIB Hannover / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische Informationsbibliothek / Bundesministerium fuer Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie, Bonn (Germany) / DE / Germany
Germany
Cet article est une analyse critique des données qui confortent la thèse de l'impact négatif important des réfugiés sur l'écologie des régions où ils s'installent. L'auteur fonde son argumentation sur un examen de la littérature, publiée et inédite, relative aux effets environnementaux de la présence d'un grand nombre de réfugiés. Bien que des rapp...