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Preface notes on contributors 1 Soil Degradation: A Major Challenge in the Twenty-First Century Cludia Cseko Nolasco de Carvalho, Lander de Jesus Alves, Fbio Carvalho Nunes, Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad 2 Degradation of Agriculture Systems by Invasive Alien Plants and Agroecological Approaches for Sustainable Restoration Prabhat Kumar Rai 3 Soil Management for Carbon Sequestration Yassine Aallam, Soumia Amir, Wassila Bouta, Mohamed Farissi, Abdelmajid Haddioui, Hanane Hamdali, Ayoub Haouas, Ahmed El Moukhtari, Abdallah Oukarroum, Taoufik El Rasafi, Anas Tallou 4 Soil Degradation, Resilience, Restoration, and Sustainable Use Diana Cota-Ungson, Yolanda Gonzlez-Garca, Antonio Jurez-Maldonado 5 Organic Farming–a Sustainable Option to Reduce Soil Degradation A. V. Dordio, Jorge M. S. Faria, A. J. Palace Carvalho, Ana Paula Pinto 6 Ecological Restoration of Degraded Soils Through Protective Afforestation Marek Pajk, Marcin Pietrzykowski, BartBomiej Wo[ 7 Biochar Applications for Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Management Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad 8 Restoring Ecosystems: Guidance from Agroecology for Sustainability in Thailand Woranan Nakbanpote, Pranee Srihaban, Wutthisat Chokkuea, Winya Dungkaew, Uraiwan Taya, Piyanutt Khanema, Munjit Ruttanakorn, Jitto Ponlakit, Piyapatr Busababodhin, Surasak Khankhum, Khanitta Somtrakoon, Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad 9 Emergy Approach to the Sustainable Use of Ecosystems toward Better Land Management Ana Ana Fonseca, Joana Joana Marinheiro, Cludia Marques-dos-Santos Cordovil, Joo Serra 10 Agroecological Transformation for Sustainable Food Systems Soumia Amir, Taoufik El Rasafi, Abdelmajid Haddioui, Ayoub Haouas, Abdallah Oukarroum, Anas Tallou 11 Alternative Production Systems (“Roof-Top,” Vertical, Hydroponic, and Aeroponic Farming) gnes Szepesi 12 Regaining the Essential Ecosystem Services in Degraded Lands V. Girijaveni, K. Sammi Reddy, J. V. N. S. Prasad, V. K. Singh, Chitranjan Kumar 13 Phytochemicals as an Eco-Friendly Source for Sustainable Management of Soil-Borne Plant Pathogens in Soil Ecosystem Nawal Kishore Dubey, Chitranjan Kumar, Shikha Tiwari 14 Restoration of Saline Soils for Sustainable Crop Production Blent OKUR, Nur OKUR, Nesrin REN 15 Conservation Agriculture as Sustainable and Smart Soil Management: When Food Systems Meet Sustainability Rachid Mrabet, Tarun Sharma, Akashdeep Singh 16 The Ecology of Intercropping Systems, Tree-Cover Dynamics of Grazing Lands, and Cover Crops for Soil Management David E. Clay, Deepak R. Joshi, Chitranjan Kumar, Anil Kumar Singh 17 Strategies for Restoration and Utilization of Degraded Lands for Sustainable Oil Palm Plantation and Industry Sanggono Adisasmito, Antonius Indarto, Daniel Pramudita, Ronny Purwadi 18 Reclaiming Urban Brownfields and Industrial Areas-Potentials for Agroecology Tino Fauk, Florin-Constantin Mihai, Petra Schneider 19 Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria Sustaining Saline and Metal Contaminated Soils Chitranjan Kumar, Sangeeta Pandey, Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad, Ajay Tomar 20 Internet of Things (IoT) in Soil Management for Achieving Smart Agriculture Hossein Beyrami, Mehdi Mahbod, Chanchal K. Mitra, Amir Parnian, Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad
