Land resources and their uses in global and Pakistan perspectives
Course Material
- Introduction of Land Degradation and Management
- Causes and types of degraded lands
- Land resources and their uses in global and Pakistan perspectives
- Threats to national land use in Pakistan
- Nutrient dynamics and management in degraded lands
- Drought, low and erratic precipitation, lowering of water table
- Global warming and climate change
- Water and wind erosion and their types
- Nutrient and organic matter depletion
- Nutrient and organic matter depletion
- Salinization of soil and water
- Sea water intrusion
- Soil physical degradation: Crusting and compaction
- Water-logging
- Land sliding
- Chapters 15
- Department Soil and Environmental Sciences
- Teacher
Dr. SM Shahzad
