Written by the foremost authorities in the field, this volume brings together the technical papers from which Volume 1 is drawn. The 10 papers and discussion from a National Research Council symposium cover such topics as soil erosion classification, evaluating how soil erosion damages productivity, calculating soil erosion, understanding ephemeral gully erosion, wind erosion, and the impact of range erosion on land use.
Committee on Conservation Needs and Opportunities, National Research Council
1 Front Matter; 2 1. An Improved Soil Erosion Classification: Update, Comparison, and Extension; 3 2. Assessing Soil Erosion Productivity Damage; 4 3. Field Estimates of C Factors: How Good Are They and How Do They Affect Calculations of Erosion; 5 4. Understanding Ephemeral Gully Erosion; 6 5. Wind Erosion; 7 6. Erosion on Range and Forest Lands: Impacts of Land Use and Management Practices; 8 7. Erosion Control Practices: The Impact of Actual Versus Most Effective Use; 9 8. Applications of the NRI Data to Inventory, Monitor, and Appraise Offsite Erosion Damage; 10 9. New Cropland in the 1982 NRI: Implications for Resource Policy; 11 10. A Midwestern Perspective on Targeting Conservation Programs to Protect Soil Productivity; 12 11. Potential Uses of the NRI in State and Local Decision Making
National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Life Sciences, Committee on Metagenomics: Challenges and Functional Applications
National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Institute of Medicine, and Families Board on Children, Youth, Steve Olson
National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Committee on Animal Nutrition, Subcommittee on Dog and Cat Nutrition
National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, and Statistical Sciences Committee on AIDS Research and the Behavioral, Social, Lincoln E. Moses, Heather G. Miller, Charles F. Turner
National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, Division of Natural Hazard Mitigation, Committee on Natural Disasters
National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, Division of Natural Hazard Mitigation, Committee on Natural Disasters
National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Environment and Resources Commission on Geosciences, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Committee to Review the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Studies Program, Ecology Panel
National Research Council, Board on Science and Technology for International Development, Board on Agriculture, Committee on Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics