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Author : Laurence Dudley Stamp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book A History of Land Use in Arid Regions written by Laurence Dudley Stamp and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laurence Dudley Stamp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258465254
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (652 download)
Download or read book A History of Land Use in Arid Regions written by Laurence Dudley Stamp and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributing Authors Include F. Kenneth Hare, K. W. Butzer, R. O. Whyte And Others.
Author : Diana K. Davis
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262333546
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book The Arid Lands written by Diana K. Davis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that the perception of arid lands as wastelands is politically motivated and that these landscapes are variable, biodiverse ecosystems, whose inhabitants must be empowered. Deserts are commonly imagined as barren, defiled, worthless places, wastelands in need of development. This understanding has fueled extensive anti-desertification efforts—a multimillion-dollar global campaign driven by perceptions of a looming crisis. In this book, Diana Davis argues that estimates of desertification have been significantly exaggerated and that deserts and drylands—which constitute about 41% of the earth's landmass—are actually resilient and biodiverse environments in which a great many indigenous people have long lived sustainably. Meanwhile, contemporary arid lands development programs and anti-desertification efforts have met with little success. As Davis explains, these environments are not governed by the equilibrium ecological dynamics that apply in most other regions. Davis shows that our notion of the arid lands as wastelands derives largely from politically motivated Anglo-European colonial assumptions that these regions had been laid waste by “traditional” uses of the land. Unfortunately, such assumptions still frequently inform policy. Drawing on political ecology and environmental history, Davis traces changes in our understanding of deserts, from the benign views of the classical era to Christian associations of the desert with sinful activities to later (neo)colonial assumptions of destruction. She further explains how our thinking about deserts is problematically related to our conceptions of forests and desiccation. Davis concludes that a new understanding of the arid lands as healthy, natural, but variable ecosystems that do not necessarily need improvement or development will facilitate a more sustainable future for the world's magnificent drylands.
Author : Unesco
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)
Download or read book A History of Land Use in Arid Regions written by Unesco and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laurence Dudley Stamp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (119 download)
Download or read book A History of Land Use in Arid Regions written by Laurence Dudley Stamp and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Unesco
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Arid Zone Research written by Unesco and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pedro Armillas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (884 download)
Download or read book History of Land Use in Arid and Semi-arid Regions written by Pedro Armillas and published by . This book was released on 1959* with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Troy Sternberg
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3039213474
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (392 download)
Download or read book Arid Land Systems: Sciences and Societies written by Troy Sternberg and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding deserts and drylands is essential, as arid landscapes cover >40% of the Earth and are home to two billion people. Today's problematic environment–human interaction needs contemporary knowledge to address dryland complexity. Physical dimensions in arid zones—land systems, climate and hazards, ecology—are linked with social processes that directly impact drylands, such as land management, livelihoods, and development. The challenges require integrated research that identifies systemic drivers across global arid regions. Measurement and monitoring, field investigation, remote sensing, and data analysis are effective tools to investigate natural dynamics. Equally, inquiry into how policy and practice affect landscape sustainability is key to mitigating detrimental activity in deserts. Relations between socio-economic forces and degradation, agro-pastoral rangeland use, drought and disaster and resource extraction reflect land interactions. Contemporary themes of food security, conflict, and conservation are interlinked in arid environments. This book unifies desert science, arid environments, and dryland development. The chapters identify land dynamics, address system risks and delineate human functions through original research in arid zones. Mixed methodologies highlight the vital links between social and environmental science in global deserts. The book engages with today's topical themes and presents novel analyses of arid land systems and societies.
Author : Laurence Dudley Stamp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Land Use in Arid Regions written by Laurence Dudley Stamp and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scott E. Ingram
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816531293
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Traditional Arid Lands Agriculture written by Scott E. Ingram and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Arid Lands Agriculture is the first of its kind. Each chapter considers four questions: what we don’t know about specific aspects of traditional agriculture, why we need to know more, how we can know more, and what research questions can be pursued to know more. What is known is presented to provide context for what is unknown. Traditional agriculture, nonindustrial plant cultivation for human use, is practiced worldwide by millions of smallholder farmers in arid lands. Advancing an understanding of traditional agriculture can improve its practice and contribute to understanding the past. Traditional agriculture has been practiced in the U.S. Southwest and northwest Mexico for at least four thousand years and intensely studied for at least one hundred years. What is not known or well-understood about traditional arid lands agriculture in this region has broad application for research, policy, and agricultural practices in arid lands worldwide. The authors represent the disciplines of archaeology, anthropology, agronomy, art, botany, geomorphology, paleoclimatology, and pedology. This multidisciplinary book will engage students, practitioners, scholars, and any interested in understanding and advancing traditional agriculture.
Author : B.H. Walker
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0444599975
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (445 download)
Download or read book Management of Semi-Arid Ecosystems written by B.H. Walker and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensive regions of the world have a climate which, whilst permitting development of a continuous vegetative cover, is too dry for successful annual cropping. These are the semi-arid areas where land use is based on the natural vegetation. Easily degraded and difficult to maintain, they are under increasing pressure as expanding human populations move in and endeavour to force a living from them. As a result they contain some of the worst examples of resource degradation. This book examines the problems and opportunities involved in man's use of semi-arid areas. The authors are all actively involved in research and land management in the areas discussed. Each chapter begins with a detailed, up-to-date account of the ecology of the region (its climate, soils, vegetation, fauna and main ecological characteristics). This is followed by a history of land use, problems involved in its management, a review of current research and recommended land use practices. The common features of semi-arid ecosystems are brought together in a final section.
Author : John Wesley Powell
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780343705398
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States written by John Wesley Powell and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : R. A. Perry
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521218429
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (184 download)
Download or read book Arid Land Ecosystems: Volume 1 written by R. A. Perry and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1979-03-08 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive account of arid-land ecosystems will be of importance to university teachers and professional ecologists throughout the world.
Author : Siegmar-W. Breckle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 364259560X
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Land Use in Deserts written by Siegmar-W. Breckle and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing desert areas for land use implies a lot of ecological problems. These and related ones are dealt with in this book covering various interdisciplinary and international aspects. Large areas in arid and semi-arid regions are already polluted in various ways. One of the biggest problems is the anthropogenic salinization by inadequate means of agriculture and irrigation. Additionally, most arid areas in the world are dramatically overgrazed. Methods and practices of a sustainable land use in deserts are urgently needed in many arid regions. This book gives a broad survey on some of the affected regions of the world as well as some case studies from elsewhere (Aral Sea, Negev desert, Namib desert etc.). Thus, basic and applied sciences are brought together. Water management in deserts, grazing systems or reclamation of desertified areas are among the topics of this book, as well as social and economic aspects.
Author : Nathan F. Sayre
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022608325X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Scale written by Nathan F. Sayre and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steeped in US soil, this first global history of rangeland science looks to the origin of rangeland ecology in the late nineteenth-century American West, exploring the larger political and economic forces that - together with scientific study - produced legacies focused on immediate economic success rather than long-term ecological well-being. Neither scientists nor public agencies could escape the influences of bureaucrats and ranchers who demanded results, and the ideas that became scientific orthodoxy - from fire suppression and predator control to fencing and carrying capacities - contained flaws and blind spots that plague public debates to this day. The Politics of Scale identifies the sources of these conflicts and mistakes and helps us to see a more promising path forward, one in which rangeland science is guided less by capital and the state and more by communities working in collaboration with scientists. -- from back cover.
Author : Daniel Vasey
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557532725
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Ecological Hist of Agriculture 10000 Bc-Ad 10000 written by Daniel Vasey and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Ecological History of Agriculture, 10,000 B.C. - A.D. 10,000 opens with the first known agriculture and ends in a future in which we might have to use fewer resources to feed more people. The book describes past and present agriculture and looks at future possibilities.
Author : E. S. Hills
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040004660
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Arid Lands written by E. S. Hills and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1951 UNESCO launched an Arid Zone Programme with the object of promoting research into arid regions from every relevant scientific point of view. This book, originally published in 1966, represents the range of research undertaken and gives a general conspectus of arid zone geography. 17 authors from 8 countries contributed and the book deals comprehensively with all the main areas, with specific examples used to illustrate arguments. There are chapters on meteorology, geology, geomorphology, botany and zoology and almost 50% of the book is devoted to man’s activities: irrigation and agriculture; industry; animal breeding and human survival in the desert
