The Socio-Economic Causes and Consequences of Desertification in Central Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Challenges to Policy Formulation

   1. The Link between Desertification and Security in Central Asia

      • Ilka Lindt

      Pages 3-11

   2. From Global Environmental Discourse to Local Adaptations and Responses: A Desertification Research Agenda for Central Asia

      • Lindsay C. Stringer

      Pages 13-31

   3. Causes and Socio-Economic Consequences of Desertification in Central Asia

      • Lapas Alibekov, Davlat Alibekov

      Pages 33-41

3. Grazing Systems and Desertification

   1. Forage Distributions, Range Condition, and the Importance of Pastoral Movement in Central Asia - A Remote Sensing Study

      • Michael Coughenour, Roy Behnke, John Lomas, Kevin Price

      Pages 45-80

   2. The Impact of Livestock Grazing on Soils and Vegetation Around Settlements in Southeast Kazakhstan

      • Ilya I. Alimaev, Carol Kerven, Aibyn Torekhanov, Roy Behnke, Kazbek Smailov, Vladimir Yurchenko et al.

      Pages 81-112

   3. Livestock Mobility and Degradation in Kazakhstan’s Semi-Arid Rangelands

      • Carol Kerven, Kanat Shanbaev, Ilya Alimaev, Aidos Smailov, Kanat Smailov

      Pages 113-140

   4. Human and Natural Factors that Influence Livestock Distributions and Rangeland Desertification in Turkmenistan

      • Roy Behnke, Grant Davidson, Abdul Jabbar, Michael Coughenour

      Pages 141-168

4. Case Studies of Resource Degradation and Desertification Control

   1. Land Reform in Tajikistan: Consequences for Tenure Security, Agricultural Productivity and Land Management Practices

      • Sarah Robinson, Ian Higginbotham, Tanya Guenther, Andrée Germain

      Pages 171-203

   2. Israeli Experience in Prevention of Processes of Desertification

      • N. Orlovsky

      Pages 205-229

   3. Potential Effects of Global Warming on Atmospheric Lead Contamination in the Mountains

      • Marián Janiga

      Pages 231-247

   4. The Influence of Environmental Factors on Human Health in Uzbekistan

      • A. M. Shamsiyev, Sh. A. Khusinova

      Pages 249-252

This book contains a selection of papers presented at the Advanced Research Workshop on ‘The Socio-economic causes and consequences of desertification in Central Asia’ held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, in June 2006. The meeting provided a forum for twenty-six scientists from Central Asia and NATO countries to discuss the human dimensions of the desertifi- tion process. Papers presented to the meeting examined recent scientific evidence on the impact of desertification on livestock production, public health, and biodiversity, and contributed to the formulation of coh- ent national and regional policies for the management of watersheds, rangelands, and irrigated agriculture. The meeting was co-directed by Roy Behnke of the Macaulay Institute, UK, and by Lapas Alibekov of the Samarkand State University, Uzbekistan. Both the workshop and this subsequent publication have been financed by the NATO Scientific Affairs Division and we gratefully acknowledge this support. The Bishkek meeting was ably hosted by the Kyrgyz Sheep Breeders Association under the dir- tion of Akylbek Rakaev who contributed substantially to the successful running of the workshop. Deliberations at the workshop emphasized that policy failures at national level had promoted desertification within the region.

• Environmental
• NATO
• Science
• Security
• Sub-Series C
• Vegetation
• human health
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Macaulay Institute Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, UK

  Roy Behnke

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