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Part I Soil Survey and Classification Strategies in Different Ecological Zones
1 Innovative Thinking for Sustainable Use of Terrestrial Resources in Abu Dhabi Emirate Through Scientific Soil Inventory and Policy Development
Shabbir A. Shahid, Mahmoud A. Abdelfattah, Yasser Othman, Anil Kumar, Faisal K. Taha, John A. Kelley and Michael A. Wilson
2 Demands on Soil Classification and Soil Survey Strategies: Special Purpose Soil Classification Systems for Local Practical Use
R.W. Fitzpatrick
3 Reconnaissance Soil Survey for the State of Kuwait
Samira A.S. Omar and Shabbir A. Shahid
4 Do the Emerging Methods of Digital Soil Mapping have Anything to Learn from the Geopedologic Approach to Soil Mapping and Vice Versa?
Abbas Farshad, Dhruba Pikha Shrestha and Ruamporn Moonjun
5 Soil Thematic Map and Land Capability Classification of Dubai Emirate
Hussein Harahsheh, Mohamed Mashroom, Yousef Marzouqi, Eman Al Khatib, B.R.M. Rao and M.A. Fyzee
6 Land Evaluation Interpretations and Decision Support Systems - Soil Survey of Abu Dhabi Emirate
Peter King, Gerard Grealish, Shabbir A. Shahid and Mahmoud A. Abdelfattah
7 Conceptual Soil-Regolith Toposequence Models to Support Soil Survey and Land Evaluation
Gerard Grealish, R.W. Fitzpatrick, Peter King and Shabbir A. Shahid
8 Anhydrite Formation on the Coastal Sabkha of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Michael A. Wilson, Shabbir A. Shahid, Mahmoud A. Abdelfattah, John A. Kelley and James E. Thomas
9 Fundamental Steps for Regional and Country Level Soil Surveys
Norair Toomanian
10 Assessment of Soil Diversity in Western Siberia Using WRB 2006
Elena N. Smolentseva
11 Classification of the Topsoil Fabrics in Arid Soils of Central Asia
Marina Lebedeva, Maria Gerasimova and Dmitry L. Golovanov
12 Digital Mapping of Gypsic Horizon Morphotypes and Soil Salinity in an Old Alluvial Piedmont Plain of Uzbekistan
Dmitry L. Golovanov and Irina A. Yamnova
13 Soils in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions: The Past as Key for the Future
Bernhard Lucke, Iourii Nikolskii and Rupert Bäumler
14 Classification, Characterization and Suitability Evaluation of the Savanna Soils of Oyo North of Nigeria
J.O. Aruleba and A.S. Ajayi
15 Use of Soil Survey Database for the Probabilistic Evaluation of Soil Cover Transformation in the Semi-Arid Zone of Western Siberia
Irina Mikheeva
16 Soil Suitability of Northern State of Sudan to Irrigated Agriculture
Abdelmagid Ali Elmobarak and Fawzi Mohamed Salih
17 Effects of Plants on Soil Forming Processes: Case Studies from Arid Environments
William H. Verboom, J.S. Pate, Mahmoud A. Abdelfattah and Shabbir A. Shahid
18 The Sand Land Soil System Placement (Taxonomy) and Society
Ramez A. Mahjoory
19 Digital Soil Mapping Using Spectral and Terrain Parameters and Statistical Modeling Integrated into GIS-Northwestern Coastal Region of Egypt
Fawzy Hassan Abdel-Kader
20 Studies on the Micromorphology of Salt-Affected Soils from El-Fayoum Depression, Egypt
Tolba S. Abdel Aal and A. M. Ibrahim
21 Correlation of Students' Estimation and Laboratory Determination of Soil Texture
Mohamed S. Alhammadi and Mohamed S. Gheblawi
22 Soil Classification and Genesis in Part of Khorasan Province
Mohammad Hassan Sayyari-Zahan
23 Classification, Characterization and Management of Some Agricultural Soils in the North of Egypt
Sabry M. Shaheen, Mohamed E. Abo-Waly and Rafaat A. Ali
24 Semi-Arid Soils of Eastern Indonesia: Soil Classification and Land Uses
Anny Mulyani, Adi Priyono and Fahmuddin Agus
Part II Land Use Planning and Policy Implications
25 Land Use Planning and Policy Implication-Bridging between Science, Politics and Decision Making
Winfried E.H. Blum
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