Soil and Land Use Change

Javid Ahmad Parray

Sep 2025 · Springer Nature

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This book focuses on the overview of the causative factors for forcing land use changes and the historical developments worldwide. Healthy soil is the foundation of agriculture and an essential resource for meeting 21st-century human needs such as food, feed, fiber, clean water, and air. It is an integral component of ecosystems and earth system functions that help to deliver primary ecosystem services. Soil change, as opposed to soil variability, refers to the alteration of soil and its properties over time in one location. Although soils change due to pedogenesis, this book focuses on anthropogenic soil changes. Human use and management can cause soil change over long or short periods and on small or large scales. Many soils have had their chemical, physical, or biological properties altered due to agricultural activities such as cultivation, tillage, and weeding. The primary cause of accelerated soil erosion is human activity and related land use change, which seriously affects nutrient and carbon cycling, land productivity, and global socioeconomic conditions. Land degradation and land use have reached alarming proportions, exacerbated by climate change. Land use change has been identified as a worldwide issue because it is one of the primary causes of environmental change.

The book outlines various socioeconomic setups driving soil and land use change. The composition of the community influences the function of the ecosystem. Understanding how these forces affect the soil biological community is critical to preventing land degradation and desertification. Agriculture production is decreasing as a result of existing biotic and abiotic stresses. In this regard, the book emphasizes an integrated approach that includes strategies for replacing essential concepts with desperately needed realistic, sustainable, and economically viable techniques. Land use changes are frequently nonlinear, which can cause system feedback, stress living conditions, and expose people to vulnerability.

About the author

Dr Parray teaches at the Department of Environmental Science, GDC (Government Degree College) Eidgah Srinagar, which is affiliated with Cluster University Srinagar, India. Dr. Parray obtained his MPhil and PhD degrees from the University of Kashmir, India, where he also did his postdoctoral research. His research interests include ecological and agricultural microbiology, climate change and microbial biotechnology, environmental microbiome, etc. Dr Parray has published over 50 research papers and authored over 30 books with international publishers. Dr Parray is on the editorial board, a permanent reviewer of several journals, an invited speaker at various scientific meetings/conferences in India and abroad, and a member of many international and national scientific organizations and societies. Dr. Parray was awarded the PIFI scholarship by the Chinese Academy of Science for 2024.

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