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|a Lindert, Peter H.
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|b the changing agricultural soils of China and Indonesia /
|c Peter H. Lindert.
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|a Shifting Ground: The Changing Agricultural Soils of China and Indonesia
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|a Machine generated contents note: Preface -- I Judging Soil Trends -- 1. Current Concerns -- Alarm Bells -- What Soil Degradation Means -- The Importance of Soil Chemistry -- The Road Ahead -- 2. Previous Evidence -- Surveys of Degraded Land Areas: The Still-Life as a Documentary Film -- Guesswork on Erosion -- Changes in Cultivated Area -- Lessons from Experiments -- Hints from Good Eclectic Histories -- Summary Diagnosis -- 3. Beginning a New Soil History -- Global Data from the Twenty-First Century -- Mining the Twentieth-Century Record -- A Statistical Strategy for Separating Time from Space -- In Search of Errors -- II China -- 4. Soil Changes in China since the 1930s -- Physical Background -- The Resulting Equations -- Soil Trends in North China -- Soil Trends in South China -- Interpreting the Trends in Soil Nutrients -- Summary -- 5. China's Soil-Agriculture Interactions -- Simultaneous Feedbacks: The Conceptual Task -- Designing a Simultaneous System to Fit China in the 1980s -- The Determinants of Agricultural Yields -- Feedbacks from Agriculture to the Soil -- 6. The Quality and Quantity of China's Cultivated Soils -- Soil Quality since the 1930s: A First Guess -- Cultivated Area -- China's Net Soil Investment since the 1930s -- Three Lingering Concerns -- Summary -- III Indonesia -- 7. A Half Century of Soil Change in Indonesia -- Preparing the Raw Materials -- Revealing the Patterns Statistically -- Soil Trends on Java -- Soil Trends and the Settlement Process on the Outer Islands -- Signs of Erosion? -- The Geography of Indonesia's Soil Chemistry -- Summary -- 8. Consequences for Indonesian Agriculture -- Alternative Approaches -- The Impact of Soils on Agricultural Productivity in 1990 -- Fertilizer as a Substitute for Soil Quality -- Indonesia's Net Investment in Soils, 1940-1990 -- IV Conclusions and Implications -- 9. What Have We Done to the Land? -- On Trends in Soil Characteristics -- On Their Causes -- On Changes in Cultivated Land Area -- Consequences -- Postscript: Trends versus Potential in Soil Management -- Appendix A: Full Soil History Regression Equations for China -- Appendix B: Soil Chemistry Averages by Province, China, -- 1981-1986 -- Appendix C: Fuller Simultaneous-Equation Estimates of China's -- Soil-Agriculture System in the 1980s -- Appendix D: Full Regression Equation Estimates for the -- Determinants of Soil Chemistry in Indonesia, 1923-1990 -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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