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Author : Harold E. Dregne
Publisher : Advancement of Science
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Arid Lands in Transition written by Harold E. Dregne and published by Advancement of Science. This book was released on 1970 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Association for the Advancement of Science
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (499 download)
Download or read book Arid Lands in Transition written by American Association for the Advancement of Science and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Association for the Advancement of Science Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780598199195
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (991 download)
Download or read book Arid Lands in Transition written by American Association for the Advancement of Science Staff and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Present knowledge, problems and potentials; Mechanisms and institutions for problem-solving; Evaluation.
Author : Harold E. Dregne
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9783718601684
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Desertification of Arid Lands written by Harold E. Dregne and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1983 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Charles F. Hutchinson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402066899
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Future of Arid Lands-Revisited written by Charles F. Hutchinson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Future of Arid Lands, edited by Gilbert White and published in 1956, comprised papers delivered at the "International Arid Lands Meetings" held in New Mexico in 1955. At these meetings, experts considered the major issues then confronting the world’s arid lands and developed a research agenda to address these issues. This book reexamines this earlier work and explores changes in the science and management of arid lands over the past 50 years within their historical contexts.
Author : T. W. Hoekstra
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067174
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Arid Lands Management written by T. W. Hoekstra and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers various directions for both research and management.
Author : Michael H. Glantz
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429726228
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Desertification written by Michael H. Glantz and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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 : Matlock W. G.
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9783718600519
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Realistic Planning for Arid Lands written by Matlock W. G. and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gilbert G. Stamm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Role of Water and Land Resources in Alleviating Malnutrition and Hunger in Arid Regions written by Gilbert G. Stamm and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Hutchinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429702027
Total Pages : 1436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Arid Lands written by Charles Hutchinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 1436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international conference Arid Lands: Today and Tomorrow drew more than 400 participants from over 3 S countries to Tucson, Arizona, for one week in October of 19 8 S. The diversity of presenters, disciplines and subject matters addressed contributed to an interesting and informative conference. The papers presented in this volume represent the efforts of scientists and other individuals who, through their various disciplines, are addressing the problems of and opportunities presented by the arid lands of the world. A committee of five scientists reviewed for substance. relevance and their contribution to the conference the 284 abstracts that were submitted. They selected 146 for presentation at the conference and of those papers presented, 128 were received for inclusion in the proceedings.
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 : Kenneth Walton
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0202369471
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Arid Zones written by Kenneth Walton and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathan F. Sayre
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022608339X
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: Rangelands are vast, making up one quarter of the United States and forty percent of the Earth’s ice-free land. And while contemporary science has revealed a great deal about the environmental impacts associated with intensive livestock production—from greenhouse gas emissions to land and water degradation—far less is known about the historic role science has played in rangeland management and politics. Steeped in US soil, this first history of rangeland science looks to the origins 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. During the late 1880s and early 1890s, a variety of forces—from the Homestead Act of 1862 to the extermination of bison, foreign investment, and lack of government regulation—promoted free-for-all access to and development of the western range, with disastrous environmental consequences. To address the crisis, government agencies turned to scientists, but as Nathan F. Sayre shows, range science grew in a politically fraught landscape. Neither the scientists nor the 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 about rangelands to this day. Looking at the global history of rangeland science through the Cold War and beyond, The Politics of Scale identifies the sources of past 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.
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.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Selected Water Resources Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United Nations
Publisher : Pergamon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Desertification written by United Nations and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1977 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Association for the Advancement of Science
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Future of Arid Lands written by American Association for the Advancement of Science and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
