Combating Desertification with Plants
Combating Desertification with Plants

Author: D. Pasternak

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 1461513278

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The conference "Combating Desertification with Plants" was held in Beer Sheva, Israel, from November 2-5, 1999, and was attended by 70 participants from 30 countries and/or international organisations. Desertification - the degradation of soils in drylands - is a phenomenon occurring in scores of countries around the globe. The number of people (in semiarid regions) affected by the steady decline in the productivity of their lands is in the hundred millions. The measures required to halt and reverse the process of desertification fall into many categories - policy, institutional, sociological-anthropological, and technical. Although technical "solutions" are not currently in vogue, the conference organizers felt that perhaps the pendulum had swung too far in the direction of "participatory approaches." Hence IPALAC - The International Program for Arid Land Crops - whose function is to serve as a catalyst for optimizing the contribution of plant germplasm to sustainable development in desertification-prone regions - felt the time was opportune for providing a platform for projects where the "plant-driven" approach to development finds expression. Some 45 papers were delivered at the conference, falling into the categories of this volume: Overview, Potential Germplasm for Arid Lands, Introduction, Domestication and Dissemination of Arid Land Plants, Land Rehabilitation, and Mechanisms of Plant Transfer. The conference was funded by UNESCO (Division of Ecological Sciences), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, and MASHAV, Israel's Center for International Development Cooperation.

Arabia and the Arabs
Arabia and the Arabs

Author: Robert G. Hoyland

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1134646348

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Long before Muhammed preached the religion of Islam, the inhabitants of his native Arabia had played an important role in world history as both merchants and warriors Arabia and the Arabs provides the only up-to-date, one-volume survey of the region and its peoples, from prehistory to the coming of Islam Using a wide range of sources - inscriptions, poetry, histories, and archaeological evidence - Robert Hoyland explores the main cultural areas of Arabia, from ancient Sheba in the south, to the deserts and oases of the north. He then examines the major themes of *the economy *society *religion *art, architecture and artefacts *language and literature *Arabhood and Arabisation The volume is illustrated with more than 50 photographs, drawings and maps.

Medieval Italy, Medieval and Early Modern Women
Medieval Italy, Medieval and Early Modern Women

Author: Conor Kostick

Publisher: Four Courts Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781846822223

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This book pays tribute to Professor Christine Meek with sixteen essays that present the latest research in the evolution of Italian society towards the Renaissance and also provide fascinating and original studies of the actions of medieval women in battle, as political leaders and as leaders of religious communities. Contributors: Brenda Bolton (U London), M.E. Bratchel (U Witwatersrand, Johannesburg), William Caferro (Vanderbuilt U), Edward Coleman (UCD), George Dameron (Saint Michaels College, Vermont), William R. Day (Cambridge), Stephen Hanaphy (Kings Inns, Dublin), Gillian Kenny (UCD), Conor Kostick (TCD), Catherine Lawless (U Limerick), Andreas Meyer (U Marburg), M. Grazia Nico Ottavianni (U Perugia), Duane Osheim (U Virginia), Jennifer Petrie (UCD), Ignazio Del Punta (U Pisa), I.S. Robinson (TCD), Helga Robinson-Hammerstein (TCD), Katharine Simms (TCD).