Impact of Agriculture on Soil Degradation I

Chapter 1 Agricultural Land Degradation in Argentina.- Chapter 2 Agricultural Soil Degradation in Australia.- Chapter 3 Perspectives from Africa, Asia, America and Oceania.- Chapter 4 Agricultural Land Degradation in Brazil.- Chapter 5 Agriculture Land Degradation in Chile.- Chapter 6 Agricultural Land Degradation in China.- Chapter 7 Agricultural Soil Degradation in Colombia.- Chapter 8 Agricultural Land Degradation in India.- Chapter 9 Degradation of Agricultural Lands in Israel.- Chapter 10 Agricultural Land Degradation in Kenya.- Chapter 11 Agricultural Land Degradation in Mexico.- Chapter 12 Agricultural Land Degradation in South Africa.- Chapter 13 Agricultural Land Degradation in the United States of America.

Paulo Pereira is a Full Professor at Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania). He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Barcelona (Spain, 2010). Since 2014 he is the Head of the Environmental Management Laboratory (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania). In 2015 Professor Pereira was awarded by the Soil System Sciences Division as Outstanding Young Scientist. In 2020 was identified as one of the world's most cited researchers (Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher).In 2021 was elected as a full member of the world's most prestigious scientific research honour society Sigma Xi and recognized as one of the top (1%) researchers writing about soil in the past ten years (2011-2021) according to "Expertscape". In 2021 and 2022, Paulo was listed as amongst the world's 2% top scientists in the field of environmental sciences, according to Elsevier/Stanford University. He published 200+ scientific articles, 50+ book chapters, and edited 6 books as the main editor in the fieldsof fire and soil degradation. Professor Pereira serves as Associate Editor-in-Chief of the journal Geography and Sustainability, and Associate Editor of The Science of the Total Environment and Heliyon.

Miriam Muñoz-Rojas is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Seville, Spain, and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at UNSW Sydney, Australia. Her research is focused on the conservation and restoration of soils and ecosystems. She is particularly interested in understanding plant-soil-microbe interactions and harnessing novel methodologies, including geo-tools, genomics, metabolomics, and eco-engineering, to promote ecosystem restoration and ensure the provision of key ecosystem services. Dr. Muñoz-Rojas has published over 70 scientific articles in top journals such as Science and Global Change Biology. She is a Commission Chair at the International Union of Soil Sciences and an Associate Editor for