Anmerkung: Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contributors -- Biophysical Environment -- CHAPTER 1 Principal biomes of Central Asia -- CHAPTER 2 Forests in Central Asia: Current status and constraints -- CHAPTER 3 C3/C4 plants in the vegetation of Central Asia, geographical distribution and environmental adaptation in relation to climate -- Water Resources of Central Asia -- CHAPTER 4 Water resources of the Central Asia under conditions of climate change -- CHAPTER 5 Climate change and water resource alteration in Central Asia: The case of Uzbekistan -- CHAPTER 6 Problems and management of the efficient use of soil-water resources in Central Asia with specific reference to Uzbekistan -- CHAPTER 7 Underground and surface water resources of Central Asia, and impact of irrigation on their balance and quality -- Agricultural and Soil and Environmental Degradation -- CHAPTER 8 Addressing the challenges for sustainable agriculture in Central Asia -- CHAPTER 9 Soil and environmental degradation in Central Asia -- CHAPTER 10 Land degradation by agricultural activities in Central Asia -- CHAPTER 11 Salinity effects on irrigated soil chemical and biological properties in the Aral Sea basin of Uzbekistan -- Soil Management and Carbon Dynamics -- CHAPTER 13 Dynamics of soil carbon and recommendations on effective sequestration of carbon in the steppe zone of Kazakhstan -- CHAPTER 14 Carbon dynamics in Saskatchewan soils: Implications for the global carbon cycle -- CHAPTER 15 Conservation agriculture: Environmental benefits of reduced tillage and soil carbon management in water-limited areas of Central Asia -- CHAPTER 16 Conservation agriculture for irrigated agriculture in Asia -- CHAPTER 17 Syria's long-term rotation and tillage trials: Potential relevance to carbon sequestration in Central Asia. , CHAPTER 18 Potential for carbon sequestration in the soils of Afghanistan and Pakistan -- CHAPTER 19 Improvement of soil physical and chemical conditions to promote sustainable crop production in agricultural areas of Kazakhstan -- CHAPTER 20 Technological options to enhance humus content and conserve water in soils of the Zarafshan valley, Uzbekistan -- CHAPTER 21 Eliminating summer fallow on black soils of Northern Kazakhstan -- CHAPTER 22 Dynamics of water and soil organic matter under grain farming in Northern Kazakhstan - Toward sustainable land use both from the agronomic and environmental viewpoints -- CHAPTER 23 Conservation agriculture in the steppes of Northern Kazakhstan: The potential for adoption and carbon sequestration -- CHAPTER 24 Cover crops impacts on irrigated soil quality and potato production in Uzbekistan -- Forest Management and Carbon Dynamics -- CHAPTER 25 Forest carbon sequestration and storage of the Kargasoksky Leshoz of the Tomsk Oblast, Russia - Current status and the investment potential -- CHAPTER 26 Soil and vegetation management strategies for improved carbon sequestration in Pamir mountain ecosystems -- Economic Analysis -- CHAPTER 27 An economic comparison of conventional tillage and conservation tillage for spring wheat production in Northern Kazakhstan -- Methodological and Technological Challenges -- CHAPTER 28 An assessment of the potential use of SRTM DEMs in terrain analysis for the efficient mapping of soils in the drylands region of Kazakhstan -- CHAPTER 29 Potential for soil carbon sequestration in Central Kazakhstan -- CHAPTER 30 Application of GIS technology for water quality control in the Zarafshan river basin -- CHAPTER 31 Remote sensing application for mapping terrestrial carbon sequestration in Kazakhstan. , CHAPTER 32 Possible changes in the carbon budget of arid and semi-arid Central Asia inferred from landuse/landcover analyses during 1981 to 2001 -- CHAPTER 33 Western Siberian peatlands: Indicators of climate change and their role in global carbon balance -- Research and Development Priorities -- CHAPTER 34 Researchable priorities in terrestrial carbon sequestration in Central Asia -- Subject index -- Author index.