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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Deserts and Desertification in Three North African Countries
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Deserts and Desertification in Other African Countries
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Desertification in Selected Asian Countries
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About this book
This 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.
Editors and Affiliations
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, Department of Rangeland Management, Gorgan Univ. Agric. Sciences&Nat. Res., Gorgan, Iran
G. Ali Heshmati
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, College of Grassland Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China, People's Republic
Victor R. Squires
About the editors
This 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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Combating Desertification in Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Book Subtitle: Proven practices
Editors: G. Ali Heshmati, Victor R. Squires
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6652-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6651-8Published: 11 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8092-6Published: 06 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6652-5Published: 01 July 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXV, 476
Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations, 125 illustrations in colour
Topics: Life Sciences, general, Landscape Ecology, Agriculture, Earth System Sciences