Goal Oriented Soil Mapping: Applying Modern Methods Supported by Local Knowledge

Soil Mapping and Process Modeling for Sustainable Land Use Management

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 61-83

  Pereira, Paulo ^a   Brevik, Eric C ^b   Oliva, Marc ^c   Estebaranz, Ferran ^d   Depellegrin, Daniel ^a   Novara, Agata ^e   Cerdà, Artemi ^f   Menshov, Oleksandr ^g  

^a MYKOLAS ROMERIS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b DICKINSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^g TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Folk classification; Local knowledge; Scientific classification; Sustainable land use management

Indexed keywords

EID: 85040417892     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-805200-6.00003-7     Document Type: Chapter

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