What is the cost of poor land mangement?

Question

i need help wit ha geography essay and cant find this information anywhere.please help and dot points would be great!

Answer 1

When I was on Trinidad doing an impact study on a proposed highway, somebody took me out to walk the route. We stepped over a small stream. My guide called my attention to it and then told me that ships used to come up the body of water we had just stepped over. Erosion and sedimentation had filled it in.

Answer 2

Erosion, causing run off of soil, animal waste, and pesticides.

Which all end up in our streams!  The number one water pollutant in Pennsylvania is "sendimentation". This is a problem being addressed but more needs to be done. And there is also erosion caused by Japanese Knotweed, an ivasive species with vigorous growth that shades out all other plants along streambanks, once again causing erosion along the banks and sendimentation in the streams.  A real environmental disaster.

Answer 3

In one word it is 'inestimable'.

Answer 4

soil loss by;

water erosion;

failure to follow contour when ploughing

removal of hedges and ditches

loss from dust;

removal of permanent vegetation leading to drying of soil

ploughing and other vehicle movements when sol is dry

overgrazing

soil carbon loss by;

oxidation (ploughing)

failure to replace carbon (use of artifical fertilisers)

destruction of soil microfauna (use of pesticides)