Provides a unique and comprehensive assessment of soil erosion
throughout Europe, an important aspect to control and manage if
landscapes are to be sustained for the future.
Written in two parts, Soil Erosion in Europe primarily
focuses on current issues, area specific soil erosion rates, on and
off-site impacts, government responses, soil conservation measures,
and soil erosion risk maps. The first part overviews the erosion
processes and the problems encountered within each European
country, whilst the second section takes a cross-cutting theme
approach.
* Based on an EU-funded project that has been running for four
years with erosion scientists from 19 countries
* Reviews contemporary erosion processes and rates on arable and
rangeland in Europe
* Looks at current issues, such as socio-economic drivers,
controlling factors specific to the country and changes in land
use
About the author
Dr John Boardman, is a geomorphologist educated at the
Universities of Keele (BA and DSc) and London (BSc and Ph D). He is
Deputy Director of the ECI and Director of the MSc ‘Environmental
Change and Management’ and also a Research Fellow at Green College.
He has published over 100 papers mainly on land degradation and has
edited several books. He was Chairman of the EU-funded COST Action
623 ‘Soil Erosion and Global Change’ (1998-2003) with 21
participating countries and now Chairs a Working Group in COST 634
‘On and Off-Site Impacts of Runoff and Erosion’. His main research
interest is in land degradation in South Africa.
Professor Jean Poesen, Professor of Physical Geography,
K. U. Leuven, Belgium and his research interests include: Physical
geography; Geomorphology; Soil erosion; Soil degradation; Sediment
yield; Hillslope hydrology; Desertification processes and
mitigation techniques; Soil erosion control; Soil and water
conservation and experimental geomorphology (rainfall and runoff
simulation).
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