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The Arid Frontier

Interactive Management of Environment and Development

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Editors:
  1. Hendrik J. Bruins

    1. Negev Center for Regional Development and Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, and Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva and Sede Boker Campus, Israel

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  2. Harvey Lithwick

    1. Negev Center for Regional Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
      School of Public Administration, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

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Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 41)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. A Management Approach to Environment and Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Proactive Planning and Interactive Management in Arid Frontier Development

      • Hendrik J. Bruins, Harvey Lithwick
      Pages 3-29

  3. Environmental Policy, Planning and Management: National, Regional, and Multinational Dimensions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Drought Planning in the United States: Status and Future Directions

      • Donald A. Wilhite, Michael J. Hayes
      Pages 33-54

    3. Interregional Environmental Policy in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin

      • Joseph M. Powell
      Pages 55-73

    4. Environmental Law and Management in the Gulf of Aqaba

      • Deborah Sandler
      Pages 75-93

  4. Desertification and Climatic Variability in Arid Environments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Bioclimatic Aridity, Climatic Variability, Drought and Desertification: Definitions and Management Options

      • Hendrik J. Bruins, Pedro R. Berliner
      Pages 97-116

    3. Environmental Science and Desertification at the Arid Frontier

      • Andrew Warren
      Pages 117-127

    4. Human-made Desertification in the Aral Sea Basin: Planning and Management Failures

      • Monique Mainguet, René Létolle
      Pages 129-142

    5. Drought Risk Assessment for Dryland Agriculture in Semi-arid Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, India

      • Ton J. Dietz, Marcel Put, S. Subbiah
      Pages 143-161

  5. Drought, Food and Land Management in Africa

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. Traditional Management of Drought and Famine in Kenya

      • Joshua J. Akong’a, Joram N. Kareithi
      Pages 165-184

    3. Land Tenure Frontiers and Food Security among Maasai Pastoralists in Kenya

      • Marcel M. E. M. Rutten
      Pages 185-208

    4. Gestion de Terroir at the Frontier: Village Land Management of Peasants and Pastoralists in Benin

      • Leo J. De Haan
      Pages 209-227

    5. Wild Plants as Food Security in Namibia and Senegal

      • Patrick Van Damme
      Pages 229-247

  6. Management of Water Resources

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 249-249
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    2. Irrigation Development: Proactive Planning and Interactive Management

      • Leslie Shanan
      Pages 251-276

    3. Drought and Water Management in California

      • Maurice Roos
      Pages 277-293
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Keywords

About this book

The arid frontier has been a challenge for humanity from time immemorial. Drylands cover more than one-third of the global land surface, distributed over Africa, Asia, Australia, America and Southern Europe. Disasters may develop as a result of complex interactions between drought, desertification and society. Therefore, proactive planning and interactive management, including disaster-coping strategies, are essential in dealing with arid-frontier development.
This book presents a conceptual framework with case studies in dryland development and management. The option of a rational and ethical discourse for development that is beneficial for both the environment and society is emphasized, avoiding extreme environmentalism and human destructionism, combating both desertification and human livelihood insecurity. Such development has to be based on appropriate ethics, legislation, policy, proactive planning and interactive management. Excellent scholars address theseissues, focusing on the principal interactions between people and dryland environments in terms of drought, food, land, water, renewable energy and housing.
Audience: This volume will be of great value to all those interested in Dryland Development and Management: professionals and policy-makers in governmental, international and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), as well as researchers, lecturers and students in Geography, Environmental Management, Regional Studies, Development Anthropology, Hazard and Disaster Management, Agriculture and Pastoralism, Land and Water Use, African Studies, and Renewable Energy Resources.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Negev Center for Regional Development and Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, and Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva and Sede Boker Campus, Israel

    Hendrik J. Bruins

  • Negev Center for Regional Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

    Harvey Lithwick

  • School of Public Administration, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

    Harvey Lithwick

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Arid Frontier

  • Book Subtitle: Interactive Management of Environment and Development

  • Editors: Hendrik J. Bruins, Harvey Lithwick

  • Series Title: GeoJournal Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4888-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4227-4Published: 31 December 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6049-3Published: 16 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-4888-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-5499

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 385

  • Topics: Geography, general, Environmental Management, Social Sciences, general, Hydrogeology, Agriculture

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