The papers in this book provide new information on several aspects of soil erosion and applications of the National Resources Inventory (NRI). They were commissioned following a planning workshop in July 1984 and were presented in December 1984 during a national convocation, “Physical Dimensions of the Erosion Problem.” The workshop and convocation were held by the National Research Council's Board on Agriculture in response to a request from the Soil Conservation Service of the . Department of Agriculture to facilitate the establishment of discussion between the SCS and natural resource experts. The Board on Agriculture was specifically asked to evaluate the potential applications of the 1982 NRI
