Research Catalog

Title

Land clearing and development in the tropics / edited by R. Lal, P.A. Sanchez, R.W. Cummings Jr.

Publication

Rotterdam ; Boston : A.A. Balkema, 1986.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lal, R.
• Sánchez, Pedro A., 1940-
• Cummings, R. W.
• International Symposium on Land Clearing and Development in the Tropics (1st : 1982 : Ibadan, Nigeria)

Description

xii, 450 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

• Clearing of land > Tropics > Congresses
• Clearing of land
• Rodung
• Ökosystem
• Kongress
• Bodennutzung
• Urbarmachung
• Landwirtschaft
• Landbouw
• Ontginning
• Tropics
• Tropen

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Proceedings of "The first International Conference on Land Clearing and Development, held November 23-28, 1982 at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture at Ibadan, Nigeria"--P. xi.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Contents

• Disaster avoidance in land development projects / C. Fred Bentley (16 p.). -- Criteria for choice of land suitable for clearing for agricultural production / C.S Ofori (10 p.). -- Land evaluation for agriculture in the tropics : a comparison of some new mthods / P Buringh (8 p.). -- Watershed as a unit for planning and land development / Lekan Oyebande (18 p.). -- Different methods of land clearing for agricultural purposes in the tropics / R Lal (14 p.). -- Land clearing in African savannas / T.G Allan (12 p.). -- Clearing and preparation of land for industrial oil palm cultivation / G Martin (6 p.). -- Land clearing and development from forest vegetation for oil palm plantations / D.O Ataga (10 p.).
• Minimization of environmental damage, land misuse and economic waste by land clearing in the humid and subhumid tropics / International Ad Hoc Committee on Land Clearing and Development (2 p.). -- Guidelines for clearing, development and protection of tropical lands for farming / International Ad Hoc Committee on Land Clearing and Development (2 p.). -- Research priorities related to land clearing and development in the tropics / International Ad Hoc Committee on Land Clearing and Development (3 p.). -- Land clearing for pastures in the Amazon / José M Toledo (22 p.). -- Development and current status of land clearing for transmigration in Indonesia / M.S Ross (12 p.). -- Land development for transmigration areas in Sumatra and Kalimantan / A Suwardjo (10 p.).
• Land clearing and development in northern Thailand / Tim Rhodes (8 p.). -- Agronomic problems with large-scale mechanized farming / D.C Couper (10 p.). -- Site selection and bush clearing for agricultural development in Nigeria / Brian Dawtrey (8 p.). -- Effect of land clearing on soil properties of an Ultisol and subsequent copr production in Yurimaguas, Peru / J.C Alegre (14 p.). -- Effect of tropical deforestation on atmospheric CO2 / C.A Palm (14 p.). -- Deforestation and induced changes in meso / micro-climate / T.L Lawson (8 p.). -- Micrometerological study of an Hevea Forest Plantation / B.A Monteny (12 p.). -- Effects of land clearing methods on soil physical and hydrological properties in southwestern Nigeria / O.A Opara-Nadi (12 p.).
• Effects of land clearing by slash burning on soil properties of an Oxisol in the Zairean Bassin / B. Mambani (14 p.). -- Nutrient loss during forest clearing / H Fölster (6 p.). -- Effects of methods of deforestation and soil management on properties of some soils in Ivory Coast / R Moreau (18 p.). -- Process of soil compaction under vehicular traffic and means of alleviating it / B.D Soane (20 p.). -- Alleviation of soil compaction by natural forces and cultural practices / Reijo Heinonen (14 p.). -- Deforestation and soil erosion / R Lal (18 p.). -- Runoff and erosion before and after clearing depending on the type of crop in western Africa / E.J Roose (14 p.). -- Soil conservation in upland areas of northern Thailand / D Marston (16 p.). -- Post-clearing soil management alternatives for sustained production in the Amazon / Dale E Bandy (16 p.). -- Soil properties and crop yields under continuous cultivation with different management systems / R.A Sobulo (8 p.). -- New concepts for post-clearing land management in the tropics / G.F Wilson (12 p.). -- Effect of forest clearing on soil chemical properties and crop performance / B.T Kang (12 p.). -- Role of small ruminants in sustainable farming systems in southwest Nigeria / J.E Sumberg (8 p.). -- Economics of land clearing / Michael Nelson (8 p.). -- Socioeconomic aspects of land settlement development schemes / Ralph W Cummings (14 p.).

ISBN

• 9061915368
• 9789061915362

LCCN

86200852

OCLC

• ocm13897533
• 13897533
• SCSB-645273

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library