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Desertification in developed countries : International Symposium and Workshop on Desertification in Developed Countries, Why Can't We Control It?
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Desertification in developed countries : International Symposium and Workshop on Desertification in Developed Countries, Why Can't We Control It?

Auteur : David A Mouat; C F Hutchinson; United States. Bureau of Land Management.; United States. Environmental Protection Agency.; et al
Éditeur : Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©1995.
Édition/format :  Livre : Publication de conférence : Anglais
Résumé :
Desertification has reemerged as a topic of global significance as a consequence of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. When first addressed over a generation ago, attention was drawn to the compelling spectacular images of sand dunes engulfing farmlands and parched cattle dying around wells. Research tended to focus on these events as unusual phenomena that involved the unfortunate
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Genre/forme : Congresses
Type d’ouvrage : Publication de conférence, Ressource Internet
Format : Livre, Ressource Internet
Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : David A Mouat; C F Hutchinson; United States. Bureau of Land Management.; United States. Environmental Protection Agency.; et al
ISBN : 0792339193 9780792339199
Numéro OCLC : 33969999
Notes : "Reprinted from Environmental monitoring and assessment, volume 37, nos. 1-3, 1995."
Held in Tucson, Ariz., Oct. 24-29, 1994.
Description : 363 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contenu : Introduction / David A. Mouat, Charles F. Hutchinson and Beaumont C. McClure --
Effect of Mediterranean Shrub on Water Erosion Control / V. Andreu, J. L. Rubio and R. Cerni --
Secondary Desertification Due to Salinization of Intensively Irrigated Lands: The Israeli Experience / A. Banin and A. Fish --
Surface Disturbances: Their Role in Accelerating Desertification / Jayne Belnap --
A Hierarchical Approach for Desertification Assessment / Ger Bergkamp --
Properties and Erosional Response of Soils in a Degraded Ecosystem in Crete (Greece) / C. Boix, A. Calvo, A. C. Imeson, J. M. Schoorl, Soriano Soto and I. R. Tiemessen --
Identification and Observation of Desertification Processes with the Aid of Measurements from Space: Results from the European Field Experiment in Desertification-Threatened Areas (EFEDA) / Hans-Jurgen Bolle --
Where, Why and to What Extent Have Rangelands in the Karoo, South Africa, Desertified / W. R. J. Dean, S. J. Milton and M. A. Du Plessis
Responsabilité : edited by David A. Mouat and Charles F. Hutchinson ; sponsored by U.S. Bureau of Land Management and Environmental Protection Agency, in collaboration with U.S. Forest Service ... [et al.].
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Desertification has reemerged as a topic of global significance as a consequence of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. When first addressed over a generation ago, attention was drawn to the compelling spectacular images of sand dunes engulfing farmlands and parched cattle dying around wells. Research tended to focus on these events as unusual phenomena that involved the unfortunate collision of climate and 'irrational' land use.

Since then, the work of many researchers has shown us that desertification is a multifaceted problem that involves climatic, biogeochemical, political, and socio-economic processes that operate more-or-less continuously but at rates that vary in time and space. Attempts to arrest or reverse desertification that ignore this complexity are unlikely to succeed. This volume describes the multiple dimensions of desertification as well as the novel approaches that have been used to address it within the economies of developed countries.

This is done from the perspectives and experiences of the numerous authors who have contributed to this book.

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