Species-rich grasslands provide important ecosystem services, and in South Africa, approximately 40% of these are degraded. Vetiver grass (from India) is often used during rehabilitation efforts to restore soil function without a thorough understanding the potential negative ecological impacts. Hence, study was initiated investigate vetiver’s impacts grassland rehabilitation. Firstly, field sur...

Cikeruh-Citarik sub-watershed is a part of the upstream zone Citarum watershed which classified as with critical conditions in West Java. The change land use side effect increasing population causes degradation watershed. Land-use without considering any conservation rules leads to erosion, becoming criticality indicator. Erosion can be minimized by using prediction model predict amount erosion...

The physiographic region of the Central Russian Upland, situated in the Central part of Eastern Europe, is characterized by very fertile grassland soils—Chernozems (Mollisols in the USDA taxonomy). However, over the last several centuries this region has experienced intense land-use conversion. The most widespread and significant land-use change is the extensive cultivation of these soils. As a...

It is our great honor to edit this special issue of Environmental Geochemistry and Health (EGAH), especially with the special theme of mine reclamation and suitable management for heavy metals. This issue has been made up with the extended works of oral or poster presentations that were given at the 2009 International Symposium on Mine Reclamation held cooperatively by the Korea Mine Reclamatio...

Pavement surface deflection of a highway is a primary factor for evaluating the pavement strength of a flexible pavement. Benkelman Beam Deflection (BBD) technique is widely used in the country for evaluating the structural capacity of an existing flexible pavement as also for estimation and design of overlays for strengthening of a weak pavement. The field test for measuring the surface deflec...

Successful instruction of a complicated subject as Physical Rehabilitation demands organization. To understand principles and processes of such a field demands a hierarchy of steps to achieve the intended outcome. This paper is intended to be an introduction to a proposed pyramid scheme of general physical rehabilitation principles. The purpose of the pyramid scheme is to allow for a greater un...