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- 00020373 contributor B8761.
- 00020373 created "c2000.".
- 00020373 date "2000".
- 00020373 date "c2000.".
- 00020373 dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- 00020373 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-343).".
- 00020373 description "Machine generated contents note: Preface -- I Judging Soil Trends -- 1. Current Concerns -- Alarm Bells -- What Soil Degradation Means -- The Importance of Soil Chemistry -- The Road Ahead -- 2. Previous Evidence -- Surveys of Degraded Land Areas: The Still-Life as a Documentary Film -- Guesswork on Erosion -- Changes in Cultivated Area -- Lessons from Experiments -- Hints from Good Eclectic Histories -- Summary Diagnosis -- 3. Beginning a New Soil History -- Global Data from the Twenty-First Century -- Mining the Twentieth-Century Record -- A Statistical Strategy for Separating Time from Space -- In Search of Errors -- II China -- 4. Soil Changes in China since the 1930s -- Physical Background -- The Resulting Equations -- Soil Trends in North China -- Soil Trends in South China -- Interpreting the Trends in Soil Nutrients -- Summary -- 5. China's Soil-Agriculture Interactions -- Simultaneous Feedbacks: The Conceptual Task -- Designing a Simultaneous System to Fit China in the 1980s -- The Determinants of Agricultural Yields -- Feedbacks from Agriculture to the Soil -- 6. The Quality and Quantity of China's Cultivated Soils -- Soil Quality since the 1930s: A First Guess -- Cultivated Area -- China's Net Soil Investment since the 1930s -- Three Lingering Concerns -- Summary -- III Indonesia -- 7. A Half Century of Soil Change in Indonesia -- Preparing the Raw Materials -- Revealing the Patterns Statistically -- Soil Trends on Java -- Soil Trends and the Settlement Process on the Outer Islands -- Signs of Erosion? -- The Geography of Indonesia's Soil Chemistry -- Summary -- 8. Consequences for Indonesian Agriculture -- Alternative Approaches -- The Impact of Soils on Agricultural Productivity in 1990 -- Fertilizer as a Substitute for Soil Quality -- Indonesia's Net Investment in Soils, 1940-1990 -- IV Conclusions and Implications -- 9. What Have We Done to the Land? -- On Trends in Soil Characteristics -- On Their Causes -- On Changes in Cultivated Land Area -- Consequences -- Postscript: Trends versus Potential in Soil Management -- Appendix A: Full Soil History Regression Equations for China -- Appendix B: Soil Chemistry Averages by Province, China, -- 1981-1986 -- Appendix C: Fuller Simultaneous-Equation Estimates of China's -- Soil-Agriculture System in the 1980s -- Appendix D: Full Regression Equation Estimates for the -- Determinants of Soil Chemistry in Indonesia, 1923-1990 -- Notes -- References -- Index.".
- 00020373 extent "xii, 351 p. :".
- 00020373 identifier "0262122278 (hc. : alk. paper)".
- 00020373 identifier 00020373.html.
- 00020373 issued "2000".
- 00020373 issued "c2000.".
- 00020373 language "eng".
- 00020373 publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,".
- 00020373 spatial "China.".
- 00020373 spatial "Indonesia.".
- 00020373 subject "631.4/951 21".
- 00020373 subject "Agriculture Environmental aspects China.".
- 00020373 subject "Agriculture Environmental aspects Indonesia.".
- 00020373 subject "S599.6.C5 L56 2000".
- 00020373 subject "Soil degradation China.".
- 00020373 subject "Soil degradation Indonesia.".
- 00020373 subject "Soils Quality China.".
- 00020373 subject "Soils Quality Indonesia.".
- 00020373 tableOfContents "Machine generated contents note: Preface -- I Judging Soil Trends -- 1. Current Concerns -- Alarm Bells -- What Soil Degradation Means -- The Importance of Soil Chemistry -- The Road Ahead -- 2. Previous Evidence -- Surveys of Degraded Land Areas: The Still-Life as a Documentary Film -- Guesswork on Erosion -- Changes in Cultivated Area -- Lessons from Experiments -- Hints from Good Eclectic Histories -- Summary Diagnosis -- 3. Beginning a New Soil History -- Global Data from the Twenty-First Century -- Mining the Twentieth-Century Record -- A Statistical Strategy for Separating Time from Space -- In Search of Errors -- II China -- 4. Soil Changes in China since the 1930s -- Physical Background -- The Resulting Equations -- Soil Trends in North China -- Soil Trends in South China -- Interpreting the Trends in Soil Nutrients -- Summary -- 5. China's Soil-Agriculture Interactions -- Simultaneous Feedbacks: The Conceptual Task -- Designing a Simultaneous System to Fit China in the 1980s -- The Determinants of Agricultural Yields -- Feedbacks from Agriculture to the Soil -- 6. The Quality and Quantity of China's Cultivated Soils -- Soil Quality since the 1930s: A First Guess -- Cultivated Area -- China's Net Soil Investment since the 1930s -- Three Lingering Concerns -- Summary -- III Indonesia -- 7. A Half Century of Soil Change in Indonesia -- Preparing the Raw Materials -- Revealing the Patterns Statistically -- Soil Trends on Java -- Soil Trends and the Settlement Process on the Outer Islands -- Signs of Erosion? -- The Geography of Indonesia's Soil Chemistry -- Summary -- 8. Consequences for Indonesian Agriculture -- Alternative Approaches -- The Impact of Soils on Agricultural Productivity in 1990 -- Fertilizer as a Substitute for Soil Quality -- Indonesia's Net Investment in Soils, 1940-1990 -- IV Conclusions and Implications -- 9. What Have We Done to the Land? -- On Trends in Soil Characteristics -- On Their Causes -- On Changes in Cultivated Land Area -- Consequences -- Postscript: Trends versus Potential in Soil Management -- Appendix A: Full Soil History Regression Equations for China -- Appendix B: Soil Chemistry Averages by Province, China, -- 1981-1986 -- Appendix C: Fuller Simultaneous-Equation Estimates of China's -- Soil-Agriculture System in the 1980s -- Appendix D: Full Regression Equation Estimates for the -- Determinants of Soil Chemistry in Indonesia, 1923-1990 -- Notes -- References -- Index.".
- 00020373 title "Shifting ground : the changing agricultural soils of China and Indonesia / Peter H. Lindert.".
- 00020373 type "text".