The current schemes of soil and water conservation should be expanded to include new perspectives and implications in the context of the sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems. The demands for the maintenance of biodiversity, carbon cycle regulation, food production, regulation of water resources, landscape maintenance and preventing land degradation require new paradigms in the protection of the soil to be developed under the prospects of multiuse and multifunctionality. The emerging field of bioengineering applied to soil and water conservation offer important options for initiatives of soil restoration and stabilization in the context of land management developed under more environmental friendly principles.

Ponencia presentada en la International Conference of Agricultural Engeneering celebrada en Valencia del 8 al 12 de julio de 2012

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