Stimulating soil health within Nebraska's Natural Resources Districts

Soil Resources Area Affects Herbivore Health

Soil productivity effects nutritive quality of food plants, growth of humans and animals, and reproductive health of domestic animals. Game-range surveys sometimes poorly explained variations in wildlife populations, but classification of survey data by major soil types improved effectiveness. Our study evaluates possible health effects of lower condition and reproductive rates for wild populat...

Cultivating "Natural" Cultural Districts

This policy brief—a product of the SIAP Culture and Community Revitalization Collection, in collaboration with Reinvestment Fund---uses existing research on urban culture and community arts to make a case for culture-based neighborhood revitalization. The brief defines and illustrates "natural" cultural districts, highlights the synergy of social diversity and cultural engagement, and draws les...

Ih5xx: Natural Resources, Health, and Development Draft

The course examines natural resource issues affecting developing countries, and explores the impacts on communities, households, their decisions, and their health. Key resource use issues include water use (drinking, sanitation, and irrigation), agriculture (intensification, pesticide use, and land degradation), fuel wood scarcity, deforestation, conservation, and mining. For each of these issu...

Tourism And Natural Resources

Geographical Distribution of Soil Salinity, Alkalinity, and Calcicity Within Fayoum and Tamia Districts, Fayoum Governorate, Egypt

S.A. Shahid et al. (eds.), Developments in Soil Salinity Assessment and Reclamation: Innovative Thinking and Use of Marginal Soil and Water Resources in Irrigated Agriculture, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-5684-7_14, © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 Abstract Geographical distribution of soil salinity, alkalinity, calcicity, soil texture, and organic matter (grid system-log distance of ...