Overview
- Explores changes in science and the management of arid lands over the past 50 years within their historical contexts
- Highlights the effects of changes in science on land use management policy
- Speculates on what role arid lands might play in the future and how policy must adapt to their changing nature
Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 32)
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Book Title: The Future of Arid Lands-Revisited
Book Subtitle: A Review of 50 Years of Drylands Research
Authors: Charles F. Hutchinson, Stefanie M. Herrmann
Series Title: Advances in Global Change Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6689-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6688-7Published: 26 October 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6687-0Due: 07 December 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6689-4Published: 07 December 2007
Series ISSN: 1574-0919
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1621
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 228
Topics: Geography, general, Popular Science in Nature and Environment, Environment, general