Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Carating, Rodelio B.
Titre(s) : The soils of the Philippines [Texte électronique] / Rodelio B. Carating, Raymundo G. Galanta, Clarita D. Bacatio
Publication : Dordrecht : Springer, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (1 ressource en ligne (xxii, 346 pages))
Collection : World Soils Book Series
Note(s) : Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 9 juin 2014). - Comprend des références bibliographiques
The first soil survey in the Philippines was done by Mr. Clarence Dorsey, an American
soil scientist in the province of Batangas in 1903. The Soils of the Philippines,
however, is the first comprehensive summary of more than a century of soil-survey
work in this country. It integrates the soil concepts of the reconnaissance soil-survey
results, which commenced as early as 1934 and continued until the mid 1960s, with
the semi-detailed soil surveys that continue to this day.?The result is the first-ever
genetic key for classifying Philippine soils at soil series level; thus, making it
possible for any newcomers to the soil survey field to confidently produce their own
soil map, at a more detailed map scale, to suit the project requirements. This book
brings together discussions on soils and soil mapping units and up-to-date international
techniques and technologies. It makes soils relevant to current political realities
and national issues. As soil survey moves from a reductionist agricultural-development
planning tool to a more holistic and integrated approach, to enable us to understand
our dynamic and complex environment, The Soils of the Philippines will be the only
source of authoritative and updated data on soil resources for macro-level resource
management planning for decades to come. With a vanishing breed of experienced soil
surveyors, not only in the Philippines but also worldwide, it may remain the only
book on Philippine soils for the next hundred years or more. Since soils follow a
geological and not a human time frame, the contents of this volume will stay relevant
for soil surveyors even in a fast changing world. As the country leaps from an agricultural
economy towards modernization and a more diversified economic base, some of the soil
series in the Philippines, for example the Guadalupe series underlying the skyscrapers
of Makati City, are becoming extinct as a result of urban development. Therefore,
this book serves as the repository for the soils that we possess, the soils that have
been lost through decades of urbanization while, at the same time, it creates a soil
classification system for the soils we are yet to discover
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Galanta, Raymundo G.. Fonction indéterminée
Bacatio, Clarita D.. Fonction indéterminée
Sujet(s) : Sciences de l'environnement
Télédétection
Géographie physique
Entomologie
Écologie
Sols -- Conservation
Indice(s) Dewey :
631.4 (23e éd.) = Pédologie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789401786829
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb447227827
Notice n° :
FRBNF44722782
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction ; The Soils of the Lowlands ; The Soils of the Uplands ; The Soils
of the Hills and Mountains ; Soils and the Philippine Economy ; Soil Issues and
Challenges.