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Author: Daniel Hillel (Dept. of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint: Academic Press Inc
Edition: 1996. Corr. 2nd ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 4.40cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 1.500kg
ISBN: 9780123485250
ISBN 10: 0123485258
Pages: 800
Publication Date: 09 September 1998
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD
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Reviews
...This text would make a valuable reference book for anyone working with soils in an environment context. The undertaking of this book by the author greatly serves a new age of environmental soil scientist. Environmental awareness is at its highest level ever and it is nice to have a leading scientist in his field cater to pertinent issues. This is a fine example of traditional subject matter being modernized to address current and relevant global issues. --JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY Hillel offers an authoritative account of the physical properties of soil and its role in both natural and managed ecosystems. --CHOICE
The material presented in Environmental Soil Physics forms a solid soil physics text...This text would [also] make a valuable reference book for anyone working with soils in an environmental context. -Journal of Environmental Quality This book would be an excellent text book to support a specialist soil physics course and, from the non-physicist's point of view, it has much to offer as an illustration of both the breadth of the subject and of what it can offer other disciplines. -Biological Agriculture and Horticulture
Author Information
Born in California and raised in Israel, Dr. Daniel Hillel acquired an early and lifelong love of the land and a commitment to understanding and protecting the natural environment. Through decades of work in some thirty countries, he has become an international authority on sustainable management of land and water resources. Dr. Hillel has served as professor of soil physics, hydrology and the environmental sciences at leading universities in the U.S. and abroad, and has been a consultant to the World Bank and the United Nations. Among the honors he has received are the Chancellor's Medal for Exemplary Service at the University of Massachusetts , a Guggenheim award, and Doctorates of Science honoris causa by Guelph University of Canada and Ohio State University . Dr. Hillel is an elected Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, the Soil Science Society of America, and the American Society of Agronomy and was granted the Distinguished Service Award by the latter societies. He has published well over 300 scientific papers and research reports, and authored or edited twenty two books. His definitive textbooks on environmental physics have been use by universities and research institutions throughout the world and have been translated into twelve languages.
