Man and Desertification in Tropical Africa
Author: M. B. Kwesi Darkoh
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 62
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Author: M. B. Kwesi Darkoh
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 62
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Monique Mainguet
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 3642972535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKControversial, and often discussed with passion and vehemence, desertification is a problem on whose solution the survival of millions of humans is dependent. This book aims at an understanding of what is commonly called "desertification" - a term which has a connotation of irreversibility, spreading and emergence of desert-like landscapes: "land degradation" is proposed to replace it. The purpose is to present what has happened in reality, and what might be done. Illustrative worldwide analyses allow a more realistic evaluation of global land degradation. Each level of technology, excessive or insufficient, creates its own mismanagement. This is reflected in a decrease in soil productivity and eventually land degradation. The benefit to the reader is an awareness of the ecozones which have undergone the most severe land degradation, and a global overview of the phenomena, mechanisms and existing solutions.
Author: Michael H. Glantz
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2019-03-04
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0429726228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe United Nations Water Conference (in Argentina in March 1977) and the United Nations Conference to Combat Desertification (in Kenya in August 1977) reflect the worldwide attention that recent global food shortages and growing populations have drawn to the destruction of arable and potentially arable land. This collection of articles focuses on a primary form of such destruction: desertification—the creation of desert-like conditions in arid or semiarid regions either by changes in climate patterns or by human mismanagement, or both. The contributors—representing a range of disciplines—examine and evaluate the social, political, economic, environmental, and technical problems related to the causes and effects of desertification.
Author: Johannes Kotschi
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward Percy Stebbing
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Published: 1938
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anders Rapp
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 30
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: G. Ali Heshmati
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-07-01
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 9400766521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about the ‘how’ of desertification control as opposed to an analysis of the ‘why’ and fills a gap in the desertification-related literature in that it shows what to do in situations ranging from fixing mobile sands to arresting accelerated soil erosion in sloping lands. There are numerous illustrations to show the successful techniques. This compilation demonstrates that desertification and land degradation can be controlled and reversed with existing techniques in such widely varying environments as the Sahel of Africa to Sri Lanka and the Philippines in SE Asia, from mountains in Lesotho to low lands on desert margins in Mongolia. Proven approaches include technical interventions, changes in governance and to the legislative framework and policy reform. The book fills a gap in the desertification-related literature in that it shows what to do in situations ranging from fixing mobile sands to arresting accelerated soil erosion in sloping lands.
Author: Michael Cherlet
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Published: 2018
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ISBN-13: 9789279753503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. F. Reynolds
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 472
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-08-11
Total Pages: 653
ISBN-13: 1107016916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA synthesis of the environmental and climatic history of every major desert and desert margin, for researchers and advanced students.