Soil Protection in Sloping Mediterranean Agri-Environments

Soil Protection in Sloping Mediterranean Agri-Environments; Lectures and exercises
Edited by Niki Evelpidou and Tomás de Figueiredo
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança
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Soil Protection in Sloping Mediterranean Agri-Environments; Lectures and exercises  aims at providing basic tools to assess soil degradation and to design soil protection initiatives in Mediterranean sloping areas. Rooted in both the EU thematic strategy for soil protection in europe and the special environmental sensitivity of Mediterranean slopes, it is oriented towards the capacitation of post-graduation students from agricultural, forest or environmental engineering and from life or earth sciences.
The title and its acronym, SpinSMEDE, labels an Erasmus Intensive Programme, stemmed on the partnership of Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (coordinator), Wageningen University (the Netherlands), University of Athens (Greece), University of Lleida (Spain), and University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain).
The book assembles most of the lectures and exercises given during SPinSMEDE editions held in Bragança (2008), and in Athens (2009).