TY - BOOK ID - 5448909 TI - Handbook for the assessment of soil erosion and sedimentation using environmental radionuclides PY - 2002 SN - 9781402010415 1402010419 9780306480546 0306480549 PB - Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, DB - UniCat KW - Soil erosion KW - Sedimentation and deposition KW - Radioactive tracers in soil science. KW - Measurement. KW - Radioactive tracers in soil science KW - Measurement KW - Ressource en sol KW - Soil resources KW - Érosion hydrique KW - Water erosion KW - Sédimentation KW - sedimentation KW - Trait morphologique du sol KW - soil morphological features KW - Stabilisation du sol KW - Soil stabilization KW - Modèle KW - Models KW - Gestion des ressources KW - resource management KW - Conservation des sols KW - Soil conservation KW - Lutte antiérosion KW - erosion control KW - Agriculture KW - Earth & Environmental Sciences KW - Agriculture - General KW - Environmental Sciences and Forestry. Soil Science KW - Land degradation and Land conservation KW - Erosion KW - Erosion. KW - sedimentation. KW - Environmental management. KW - Agriculture. KW - Environmental sciences. KW - Soil science. KW - Soil conservation. KW - Hydrogeology. KW - Environmental Management. KW - Environmental Science and Engineering. KW - Soil Science & Conservation. KW - Geohydrology KW - Geology KW - Hydrology KW - Groundwater KW - Conservation of soil KW - Erosion control, Soil KW - Soil erosion control KW - Soils KW - Agricultural conservation KW - Soil management KW - Pedology (Soil science) KW - Earth sciences KW - Environmental science KW - Science KW - Farming KW - Husbandry KW - Industrial arts KW - Life sciences KW - Food supply KW - Land use, Rural KW - Environmental stewardship KW - Stewardship, Environmental KW - Environmental sciences KW - Management KW - Control KW - Prevention KW - Conservation KW - Soil erosion. KW - Soil erosion - Measurement KW - Sedimentation and deposition - Measurement UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5448909 AB - This publication deals with soil erosion and sedimentation. Soil erosion and associated sediment deposition are natural landscape-forming processes that can be greatly accelerated by human intervention through deforestation, overgrazing, and non-sustainable farming practices. Soil erosion and sedimentation may not only cause on-site degradation of the natural resource base, but also off-site problems— downstream sediment deposition in fields, floodplains and water bodies, water pollution, eutrophication and reservoir siltation, etc. —with serious environmental and economic impairment. There is an urgent need for accurate information to quantify the problem and to underpin the selection of effective soil-conservation technologies and sedimentation-remediation strategies, including assessment of environmental and economic impacts. Existing classical techniques to document soil erosion are capable of meeting some of these needs, but they all possess important limitations. The quest for alternative techniques for assessing soil erosion, to complement existing methods, directed attention to the use of environmental radionuclides, in particular fallout as tracers to quantify rates and establish patterns of soil redistribution within the landscape. The concept of a project on the use of environmental radionuclides to quantify soil redistribution was first formulated at an Advisory Group Meeting convened in Vienna, April 1993, by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). ER -