Soil Erosion in EuropeISBN: 978-0-470-85910-0
Hardcover
878 pages
December 2006
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Dr John Boardman, is a geomorphologist educated at the
Universities of Keele (BA and DSc) and London (BSc and PhD). He is
Deputy Director of the ECI and Director of the MSc 'Environmental
Change and Management' and also a Research Fellow at Green College.
He has published over 100 papers mainly on land degradation and has
edited several books. He was Chairman of the EU-funded COST Action
623 'Soil Erosion and Global Change' (1998-2003) with 21
participating countries and now Chairs a Working Group in COST 634
'On and Off-Site Impacts of Runoff and Erosion'. His main research
interest is in land degradation in South Africa.
Professor Jean Poesen, Professor of Physical Geography, K. U. Leuven, Belgium and his research interests include: Physical geography; Geomorphology; Soil erosion; Soil degradation; Sediment yield; Hillslope hydrology; Desertification processes and mitigation techniques; Soil erosion control; Soil and water conservation and experimental geomorphology (rainfall and runoff simulation).