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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Monique Mainguet |
ISBN: | 3540633421 9783540633426 |
OCLC Number: | 39498572 |
Language Note: | Translated from the French, helped by the French Ministry in charge of culture. |
Notes: | The original french edition, L'homme et la sécheresse, was awarded the prize "Victor-Amédée du Bocage (1895)" from the Société Géographique de France in 1996--T.p. verso. The translation has been helped by the French Ministry in charge of culture. |
Description: | ix, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1. The Spatial Framework, the Concepts of Aridity and Drought: the Soils and the Vegetation -- 2. Resources vs. Hydrological and Aeolian Constraints -- 3. Human Genius: The Search for Water and Its Management -- Battle Against the Wind -- 4. From Ingenuity to Decadence: Geohistory of an Actual Decline -- Grounds for Hope? |
Other Titles: | L'homme et la sécheresse. |
Responsibility: | Monique Mainguet ; [Translator, Thomas O.E. Reimer]. |
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- Arid regions.
- Droughts.
- Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
- Environmental degradation.
- Desertification.
- Nature -- Effets de l'homme.
- Sécheresse.
- Désertification.
- Écosystèmes -- Régions arides.
- Écologie des déserts.
- Gestion des ressources en eau -- Régions arides.
- Actions éoliennes -- Régions arides.