Novel Measurement and Assessment Tools for Monitoring and Management of Land and Water Resources in Agricultural Landscapes of Central Asia (Environmental Science and Engineering)

The book aims to initiate a sustainable use of land and water resources in Central Asia by the transfer of scientific methods. It deals with the most advanced methods worldwide for better monitoring and management of water and land resources. We offer an array of methods of measuring, assessing, forecasting, utilizing and controling processes in agricultural landscapes. These are laboratory and field measurement methods, methods of resource evaluation, functional mapping and risk assessment, and remote sensing methods for monitoring and modeling large areas. The book contains methods and results of data analysis and ecosystem modeling, of bioremediation of soil and water, field monitoring of soils, and methods and technologies for optimizing land use systems as well. The chapter authors are inventors and advocators of novel transferrable methods. The book starts with an analysis of the current state of water and land resources. Finally concrete proposals for the applicability of novel methods are given. -- [Source inconnue] Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Land and Water Resources of Central Asia, Their Utilisation and Ecological Status....Pages 3-59 Soil Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan: Current Status, Problems and Solutions....Pages 61-73 Long-Term Monitoring and Water Resource Management in the Republic of Kazakhstan....Pages 75-89 Trends in the Agriculture of Central Asia and Implications for Rangelands and Croplands....Pages 91-105 Landscape Hydrology of Rural Areas: Challenges and Tools....Pages 107-113 Productivity Potentials of the Global Land Resource for Cropping and Grazing....Pages 115-142 Front Matter....Pages 143-143 A Novel Method for Quantifying Soil Hydraulic Properties....Pages 145-158 Advanced Technologies in Lysimetry....Pages 159-173 Third-Generation Lysimeters: Scientific Engineered Monitoring Systems....Pages 175-184 A Field Method for Quantifying Deep Seepage and Solute Leaching....Pages 185-198 Simple Field Methods for Measurement and Evaluation of Grassland Quality....Pages 199-222 Impact Assessment for Multifunctional Land Use....Pages 223-234 The Muencheberg Soil Quality Rating for Assessing the Quality of Global Farmland....Pages 235-248 Use of Pedotransfer Functions for Land Evaluation: Mapping Groundwater Recharge Rates Under Semi-Arid Conditions....Pages 249-262 Nutrient Balances in Agriculture: A Basis for the Efficiency Survey of Agricultural Groundwater Conservation Measures....Pages 263-273 Methods of In Situ Groundwater Quality Monitoring: Basis for the Efficiency Survey of Agricultural Groundwater Conservation Measures....Pages 275-288 Methods in the Exploratory Risk Assessment of Trace Elements in the Soil-Groundwater Pathway....Pages 289-314 Methods for Quantifying Wind Erosion in Steppe Regions....Pages 315-327 Generation of Up to Date Land Cover Maps for Central Asia....Pages 329-346 Estimating Black Carbon Emissions from Agricultural Burning....Pages 347-364 Front Matter....Pages 143-143 Non-Linear Approaches to Assess Water and Soil Quality....Pages 365-378 Using Soil–Water–Plant Models to Improve the Efficiency of Irrigation....Pages 379-387 MONICA: A Simulation Model for Nitrogen and Carbon Dynamics in Agro-Ecosystems....Pages 389-405 Integrated Decision Support for Sustainable and Profitable Land Management in the Lowlands of Central Asia....Pages 407-422 Efficiency of Duckweed ( Lemnaceae ) for the Desalination and Treatment of Agricultural Drainage Water in Detention Reservoirs....Pages 423-440 Conservation Agriculture for Long-Term Soil Productivity....Pages 441-454 Modern Technologies for Soil Management and Conservation in Northern Kazakhstan....Pages 455-464 Enhancing the Productivity of High-Magnesium Soil and Water Resources in Central Asia....Pages 465-474 Advanced Technologies for Irrigated Cropping Systems....Pages 475-489 Multi-Species Grazing on Deer Farms....Pages 491-501 Front Matter....Pages 503-503 Assessing the Soil Quality and Crop Yield Potentials of Some Soils of Eurasia....Pages 505-517 Soils of Kazakhstan, Their Distribution and Mapping....Pages 519-533 Indicators of Land Degradation in Steppe Regions: Soil and Morphodynamics in the Northern Kulunda....Pages 535-548 Erosion Rates Depending on Slope and Exposition of Cropped Chestnut Soils....Pages 549-561 Methodology of Measuring Processes and Evaluation of Water Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan....Pages 563-575 Model-Based Impact Analysis of Climate and Land Use Changes on the Landscape Water Balance....Pages 577-590 Biotechnological Restoration Methods of Technogenically Disturbed Soils in Kazakhstan....Pages 591-609 Strategy of Sustainable Soil and Plant Resource Management in the Republic of Kazakhstan....Pages 611-619 The Effect of Applying the Microbiofertiliser “MERS” on the Soil Microbial Community and the Productivity of Winter Wheat Under the Conditions of Southeast Kazakhstan....Pages 621-630 Water Treatment Systems for Agricultural Water Supply....Pages 631-640 Front Matter....Pages 503-503 Concentration of Heavy Metals in Irrigated Soils in Southern Kazakhstan....Pages 641-652 Concept and Results of Soil Monitoring in North Kazakhstan....Pages 653-666 Diagnosis and Optimization of Phosphorus Nutrition Conditions of Grain Crops in Northern Kazakhstan....Pages 667-679 Front Matter....Pages 681-681 Executive Summary and Conclusions....Pages 683-714 Back Matter....Pages 715-716 Environmental and societal framework for monitoring and management of land and water resources Novel methodologies for measurement of processes and assessment of resources Applications and case studies Executive summary.