Authors:F. El-Baz, M.H.A. Hassan,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: desertification, physics
Number of Pages: 492
Published: 1986-04-30
List price: $218.00
ISBN-10: 9024732921
ISBN-13: 9789024732920

Authors:A.S. Alsharhan, W.W. Wood, A.S. Goudie, A. Fowler, E.M
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: millennium, third, desertification
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $354.95
ISBN-10: 9058095711
ISBN-13: 9789058095718

This wide-ranging selection of original papers covers many aspects of desertification including environmental and weather factors, land management policy, groundwater resources, understanding biodiversity in fragile ecosystems, technological approaches to the study and remedy of desertification.

Author: Michael Mortimore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: west, africa, desertification, famines, drought, farmers, adapting
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 1989-04-28
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 0521323126
ISBN-13: 9780521323123

This book embodies the results of thirteen years of research in drought-prone rural areas in the semi-arid zone of northern Nigeria. It describes the patterns of adaptive behaviour observed among Hausa, Ful’be and Manga communities in response to recurrent drought in the 1970s and 1980s. The question of desertification is explored in an area where the visible evidence of moving sand dunes is dramatic blame are examined in relation to the field evidence. A critique is offered of deterministic theories and authoritarian solutions. Professor Mortimore demonstrates a parallel between the obs

Author: Helmut Geist
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: policy, amp, practice, environmental, studies, progression, desertification, ashgate, causes
Number of Pages: 258
Published: 2005-01-30
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0754643239
ISBN-13: 9780754643234

Provides an examination into the causes and prospects of desertification through a systematic review of 132 sub-national case studies.

Authors:Steve Archer, Olafur Arnald,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: science, volume, vegetation, advances, desertification, rangeland
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 0792360710
ISBN-13: 9780792360711

Desertification has occurred worldwide. The biophysical and socio-economic complexity of this phenomenon has challenged our ability to categorize, inventory, monitor and repair the condition of degraded lands. One of the most important distinctions to be made in relation to land degradation is between cultivated land used for annual crop production and `rangelands’. Grazing by free-roaming livestock is the traditional primary use of the world’s rangelands. However, there is growing recognition of the importance of these vast acreages for wildlife habitat, hydrology and ground water

Authors:Bernard Faye, Bernard Faye, Palmated Esenov,
Publisher: IOS Press
Keywords: science, nato, series, life, sciences, behavioural, producers, camel, food, combat, safety, added, value, desertification
Number of Pages: 225
Published: 2005-03-30
List price: $168.00
ISBN-10: 1586034731
ISBN-13: 9781586034733

The book presents recent studies on camel and desert sciences achieved by Central Asian and NATO countries. It insists on the new trends in sciences and development of camel rearing with the aim to highlight the eminent role of camel producers for the improvement of desert productivity. The book includes topics on selection breeding, camel keeping, productiveness, products and health. The publication of those recent results in the camel sciences field contributes to the development of camel production as a part of the desert production and hopefully, to the change of camel status in desert, to

Authors:W.G. Kepner, Jose L. Rubio, David A. Mouat, Fausto Pe
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: mediterranean, security, spain, valencia, science, series, workshop, environmental, nato, region, issue, proceedings, desertification, dialogue
Number of Pages: 629
Published: 2005-12-21
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 1402037597
ISBN-13: 9781402037597

This book focuses on two basic concepts: security and desertification in the Mediterranean Region and their linkages. It emerged from a single meeting of the "Workshop on Desertification in the Mediterranean Region. A Security Issue" held in Valencia, Spain on 2-5 December 2003, which was sponsored by the NATO Science Committee and NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society. Desertification is recognized as a process of land degradation in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas of the world that is the result of natural phenomena (e.g. climate variation) and anthropogenic factors. Th