part SECTION 1 Basic Concepts -- chapter 1 Global Change and Carbon Cycle: The Position of Soils and Agriculture / Rattan Lal -- chapter 2 Section 3 Carbon Transfer in Rivers Chapter -- chapter 3 Influence of Soil Erosion on Carbon Dynamics in the World -- chapter 4 Modeling Soil Erosion Induced Carbon Fluxes between Soil and Atmosphere on Agricultural Land Using SPEROS-C -- part SECTION 2 Erosion at the Plot Scale -- chapter 5 Soil Carbon Erosion and Its Selectivity at the Plot Scale in Tropical and Mediterranean Regions -- chapter 6 Organic Carbon in Forest Andosols of the Canary Islands and Effects of Deforestation on Carbon Losses by Water Erosion -- chapter 7 Soil Carbon Dynamics and Losses by Erosion and Leaching in Banana Cropping Systems with Different Practices (Nitisol, Martinique, West Indies) -- chapter 8 Influence of Land Use, Soils, and Cultural Practices on Erosion, Eroded Carbon, and Soil Carbon Stocks at the Plot Scale in the Mediterranean Mountains of Northern Algeria -- chapter 9 Carbon, Nitrogen, and Fine Particles Removed by Water Erosion on Crops, Fallows, and Mixed Plots in Sudanese Savannas (Burkina Faso) -- chapter 10 Effect of a Legume Cover Crop on Carbon Storage and Erosion in an Ultisol under Maize Cultivation in Southern Benin -- chapter 11 Organic Carbon Associated with Eroded Sediments from Micro-Plots under Natural Rainfall from Cultivated Pastures on a Clayey Ferralsol in the Cerrados (Brazil) -- chapter 12 Runoff, Soil, and Soil Organic Carbon Losses within a Small Sloping-Land Catchment of Laos under Shifting Cultivation -- chapter 13 Soil Erodibility Control and Soil Carbon Losses under Short-Term Tree Fallows in Western Kenya -- chapter 14 Soil and Carbon Losses under Rainfall Simulation from Two Contrasting Soils under Maize-Improved Fallows Rotation in Eastern Zambia -- part SECTION 3 Carbon Transfer in Rivers -- chapter 15 Origins and Behaviors of Carbon Species in World Rivers -- chapter 16 Carbon, Nitrogen, and Stable Carbon Isotope Composition and Land-Use Changes in Rivers of Brazil -- chapter 17 Organic Carbon Transported by the Equatorial Rivers: Example of Congo-Zaire and Amazon Basins -- chapter 18 Soil Carbon Stock and River Carbon Fluxes in Humid Tropical Environments: The Nyong River Basin (South Cameroon) -- chapter 19 Organic Carbon in the Sediments of Hill Dams in a Semiarid Mediterranean Area -- chapter 20 Monitoring Soil Organic Carbon Erosion with Isotopic Tracers: Two Case Studies on Cultivated Tropical Catchments with Steep Slopes (Laos, Venezuela) -- part SECTION 4 Conclusions -- chapter 21 Erosion and Carbon Dynamics: Conclusions and Perspectives.