Description
Waste Management for Sustainable and Restored Agricultural Soil provides a holistic approach to various mechanisms of waste management for plant nutrients, highlighting the importance of improving plant growth, nutrient concentration, and system sustainability for enhancing crop production and achieving desired environmental goals. Covering a broad overview of different kinds of wastes and waste recycling methods and sustainable management for soil health, this book focuses on both basic and applied aspects of waste management for sustainable agriculture and how nutrients are made available through waste.Academics, professionals, researchers and policymakers working in the fields of safe waste management for potential use in agricultural crop production will benefit from this book.- Focuses on understanding basic and applied aspects of waste management for sustainable agriculture and how nutrients may be made available through waste- Presents a broad overview of the wastes generated and their sustainable management for restoration of soil health- Highlights waste characteristics and nutrient releasing patterns during decomposition of waste
Table of Contents
1. Status and challenges of global soil health management2. Waste management for Healthy agricultural production system3. Importance of organic wastes recycling in agricultural production system4. Waste management: an opportunity or threats for global food production5. Municipal solid wastes impact on human health and the environment6. Short-term effects of waste applications on heavy metals distribution in a normal/degraded soil under different agroecology7. Use of nutrient-enriched compost in soil-crop management8. Role of effective microbes in composting and crop productivity9. Response of soil microbial communities to Waste Materials and amendments10. The importance of land-use legacies to ecology and conservation11. Crop residues: status, distribution, management, and agricultural sustainability12. Biochar aspects in the sustainability of agriculture and environment13. Index for characterizing post-waste applied soil environments14. Enriched organic manure as a strategy for agronomic biofortification of crops15. Long-term effect of waste application on soil management and sustainable crop production16. Sustainable waste management: Policies and Case studies17. Waste management guidelines across different continents18. Waste application in agricultural soils: State-of-the-art
