Abstract The textbook-Science of Soil and Water Conservation and its second revision was published in 1995 and 2005, respectively, and over 20 000 copies have been printed up to now greatly supported and concerned by readers. The textbook has been a national textbook, important reference book, valuable guidance book for the college students who major in soil and water conservation and related specialty.Also, it is an indispensable textbook for students who would take part in the graduate student entrance examination in soil and water conservation specialty. The third version of the textbook was compiled recently based on its second version and new perspective in the field of soil and water conservation according to the key national textbook compiling plan during Twelfth Five-Year Plan. In order to enable readers to well understand the new content of the third revision, this paper introduces the arrangement of content of the third version and lists the main changes in content of the third version compared with its second version.
BI Hua-Xin,TU Xin-Xiao,SHI Chang-Jing. Revision points and main changes of the textbook:Science of Soil and Water Conservation (third edition ) compared with its second edition[J]. SSWCC, 2012, 10(5): 99-103.
