Sustainable Land Management Learning from the Past for the Future
Soil quality is threatened by many human-induced activities, but can also be improved by good land management. In the relatively short history of mankind on earth, the landscape and soils of the world have been drastically modified from their "natural " s
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Sustainable Land Management Learning from the Past for the Future
Sustainable Land Management
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Selim Kapur Hari Eswaran W. E. H. Blum Editors
Sustainable Land Management Learning from the Past for the Future
Editors Dr. Selim Kapur Department of Soil Science & Archaeometry University of C¸ukurova 01330 Adana, Turkey [email protected]
Dr. Hari Eswaran United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service PO Box 2890 Washington, DC, USA [email protected]
Dr. Winfried E. H. Blum Institute of Soil Research Department of Forest and Soil Sciences University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) Vienna, Austria [email protected]; [email protected]
ISBN 978-3-642-14781-4 e-ISBN 978-3-642-14782-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-14782-1 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010938610 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: deblik, Berlin Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Dedicated to the Dear Memory of Prof. Dr. Cemil Cangir (1946–2010)
Cemil Cangir the warrior of soil protection in Thrace, Turkey, passed away suddenly in Tekirdag˘ on May 10th 2010, at the age of 64, now lying in a village cemetary, whom he sought to be buried as a site overlooking the view of the soils which he dedicated his life in search of his unique protection strategies. The everthreatened fertile soils of Thrace by the inappropriate growth of the industry and urbanisation are now seeking for the decendants of the “Cangir School” to take over the task and proceed the fight for their protection. The incomparable community and NGO solidarity Cemil had achieved as his life-long dream was based on a simple key, namely the “Integrated Sustainable Basin Management of the land”. Selim Kapur and Koray Haktanır
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Preface
Inappropriate use of land and water is still on-going, despite all efforts undertaken by numerous institutions dealing with land and soil protection, as for example the European Soil Protection Strategy, aiming at a common legal instrument for soil protection in Europe. One of the failures lies in conceptual probl
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