Overview
- First book to show how fragmentation of natural systems influences human welfare, economies
- Unique in global coverage, integration of social, natural sciences of fragmentation in rangelands
- Complex systems are self sustaining, whereas simplified ones often want capital inputs, subsidies
- Shows linkage of multiple scale analyses
- Rangeland use exclusivity does not promote human welfare or sustain natural processes
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Case Studies
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Africa
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Issues Of Fragmentation And Complexity: A Synthetic Perspective
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fragmentation in Semi-Arid and Arid Landscapes
Book Subtitle: Consequences for Human and Natural Systems
Editors: Kathleen A. Galvin, Robin S. Reid, Roy H. Behnke Jr, N. Thompson Hobbs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4906-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4905-7Published: 26 October 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7223-8Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4906-4Published: 12 October 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 411
Topics: Ecosystems, Environmental Management, Physical Geography, Anthropology, Ecology, Geography, general