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The purpose of this book is to provide novel results related to soil water erosion that could help landowners and land-users, farmers, politicians, and other representatives of our global society to protect and, if possible, improve the quality and quantity of our precious soil resources. Published papers on the topics are related to new ways of mapping, maps with more detailed input data, maps about areas that have never been mapped before, sediment yield estimations, modelling sheets and gully erosion, USLE models, RUSLE models, dams which stop sediment runoff, sediment influx, solute transport, soil detachment capacities, badland morphology, freeze-thaw cycles, armed conflicts, use of rainfall simulators, rainfall erosivity, soil erodibility, etc.

Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- gully head-cuts --- machine learning modeling --- soil erosion --- Iran --- R-factor --- USLE --- rainfall intensity --- modeling --- radar climatology --- RADKLIM --- rain gauge --- sediment flux --- total soil loss --- watershed characteristics --- PCA analysis --- RUSLE (Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation) --- WaTEM/SEDEM --- Czech Republic --- residential areas --- loess --- meltwater flow --- runoff and sediment yield --- hydraulic parameter --- comparability --- infiltration --- rainfall simulation --- runoff --- RUSLE --- land cover change --- armed conflict --- Northern Al-Kabeer river Syria --- freeze-thaw cycles --- loamy soil --- soil property --- soil detachment capacity --- Loess Plateau --- badlands --- morphological changes --- land use change --- Emilia Apennines (Northern Italy) --- multiple-tracer experiments --- precipitation amounts --- preferential flow --- solute transport --- protection forest --- irrigation --- sediment --- overland flow --- soil loss --- watershed --- sediment connectivity --- connection mode --- connection degree --- land management --- gully geometry --- dynamic erosion model --- stable gully --- area–slope approach --- field measurement --- water erosion model --- event scale --- sediment yield --- Chenab river --- remote sensing --- GIS --- n/a --- area-slope approach

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This Special Issue titled “Soil Erosion and Sustainable Land Management” presents 13 chapters organized into four main parts. The first part deals with assessment of soil erosion that covers historical sediment dating to understand past environmental impacts due to tillage; laboratory simulation to clarify the effect of soil surface microtopography; integrated field observation and the random forest machine learning algorithm to assess watershed-scale soil erosion assessment; and developing the sediment delivery distributed (SEDD) model for sub-watershed erosion risk prioritization. In Part II, the factors controlling soil erosion and vegetation degradation as influenced by topographic positions and climatic regions; long-term land use change; and improper implementation of land management measures are well dealt with. Part III presents different land management technologies that could reduce soil erosion at various spatial scales; improve land productivity of marginal lands with soil microbes; and reclaim degraded farmland using dredged reservoir sediments. The final part relates livelihood diversification to climate vulnerability as well as the coping strategy to the adverse impacts of soil erosion through sustainable land management implementation which opens prospects for policy formulation. The studies cover regions of Africa, Europe, North America and Asia, being dominantly conducted under the framework of international scientific collaborations through employing a range techniques and scales, from the laboratory to watershed scales. We believe those unique features of the book could attract the interest of the wider scientific community worldwide.

Herfindahl–Simpson diversity index --- multivariate probit --- drought prone --- ordered probit --- livelihood diversification --- sustainable land management --- sediment --- land use --- erosion crises --- environmental impact --- climate change --- drought --- livelihood vulnerability --- Shannon-entropy index --- splash erosion --- rainfall simulator --- splash cup --- soil loss --- soil detachment --- disdrometer --- rainfall kinetic energy --- polyacrylamide --- gypsum --- lime --- runoff --- dryland --- Erosion rate --- ANFIS --- ANN --- SVM --- Shihmen Reservoir watershed --- Acacia decurrens --- Eucalyptus --- drought-prone --- highland --- midland --- lowland --- marginal soil --- land degradation --- endemic plant species --- soil microbes --- arid regions --- bacteria --- degraded land --- fungi --- ITS --- microbial community --- restoration --- 16S rRNA --- Gully Land Consolidation --- backfilled loess --- physical-mechanical property --- microstructural characteristic --- pore size distribution --- sediment transport --- soil erosion --- RUSLE (Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation model) --- human activities --- sediment delivery distributed model --- sediment yield --- SEDD --- sediment delivery ratio --- β coefficient --- micro-dam --- sedimentation --- reclaimed farmland --- constructability --- Ethiopian highlands --- soil organic carbon --- structure stability --- soil type

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This Special Issue titled “Soil Erosion and Sustainable Land Management” presents 13 chapters organized into four main parts. The first part deals with assessment of soil erosion that covers historical sediment dating to understand past environmental impacts due to tillage; laboratory simulation to clarify the effect of soil surface microtopography; integrated field observation and the random forest machine learning algorithm to assess watershed-scale soil erosion assessment; and developing the sediment delivery distributed (SEDD) model for sub-watershed erosion risk prioritization. In Part II, the factors controlling soil erosion and vegetation degradation as influenced by topographic positions and climatic regions; long-term land use change; and improper implementation of land management measures are well dealt with. Part III presents different land management technologies that could reduce soil erosion at various spatial scales; improve land productivity of marginal lands with soil microbes; and reclaim degraded farmland using dredged reservoir sediments. The final part relates livelihood diversification to climate vulnerability as well as the coping strategy to the adverse impacts of soil erosion through sustainable land management implementation which opens prospects for policy formulation. The studies cover regions of Africa, Europe, North America and Asia, being dominantly conducted under the framework of international scientific collaborations through employing a range techniques and scales, from the laboratory to watershed scales. We believe those unique features of the book could attract the interest of the wider scientific community worldwide.

Research & information: general --- Herfindahl–Simpson diversity index --- multivariate probit --- drought prone --- ordered probit --- livelihood diversification --- sustainable land management --- sediment --- land use --- erosion crises --- environmental impact --- climate change --- drought --- livelihood vulnerability --- Shannon-entropy index --- splash erosion --- rainfall simulator --- splash cup --- soil loss --- soil detachment --- disdrometer --- rainfall kinetic energy --- polyacrylamide --- gypsum --- lime --- runoff --- dryland --- Erosion rate --- ANFIS --- ANN --- SVM --- Shihmen Reservoir watershed --- Acacia decurrens --- Eucalyptus --- drought-prone --- highland --- midland --- lowland --- marginal soil --- land degradation --- endemic plant species --- soil microbes --- arid regions --- bacteria --- degraded land --- fungi --- ITS --- microbial community --- restoration --- 16S rRNA --- Gully Land Consolidation --- backfilled loess --- physical-mechanical property --- microstructural characteristic --- pore size distribution --- sediment transport --- soil erosion --- RUSLE (Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation model) --- human activities --- sediment delivery distributed model --- sediment yield --- SEDD --- sediment delivery ratio --- β coefficient --- micro-dam --- sedimentation --- reclaimed farmland --- constructability --- Ethiopian highlands --- soil organic carbon --- structure stability --- soil type