Manual of methods for soil and land evaluation / editor, Edoardo A.C. Costantini.

CONTENTS

PART I: INTRODUCTION
1.Soil and land evaluation: history, definitions and concepts

PART II: SOIL AND LAND EVALUATION AND PLANNING
2.The land capability classification
3.land evaluation for protecting soil from contamination
4.soil suitability for irrigation
5.soil erodibility assessment for applications at watershed scale
6.evaluation of the hydrologic soil group with the procedure SCS Curve number
7.land evaluation for developing countries
8. soil restoration: remediation and valorization of contaminated soils

PART III: LAND SUITABILITY AND LAND ZONING
9. Bread water
10.durum wheat
11.maize
12.rice
13.alfalfa
14.potato
15.tobacco
16.soybean
17.sugar beet
18.emmer wheat
19.edible truffles
20.ash-tree manna
21.cactus pear
22.lentil
23.common ash
24.common walnut
25.citrus
26.wine grape and vine zoning
27.olive tree
28.stone fruits: apricot, cherry, peach, prune and plum
29.pome fruits: apple and pear
30.kiwi fruit
31.soil knowledge applied to the cultivation of arboreal crops
32.land evaluation for some important Italian conifers
33.land suitability for grazing

Includes bibliographical references and index.