Editors:
- Exhaustively reviews the key recent research on the current status and future prospects of the world's drylands
- Provides a synoptic overview of the current problems and prospects for half a billion inhabitants in these drylands
- Demonstrates the path forward to improve livelihoods, conserve biodiversity and achieve land protection
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Aridlands Under a Global Change Regime
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Northern Hemisphere Aridlands: Selected Examples
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Southern Hemisphere Aridlands: Selected Examples
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Summary, Synthesis and Concluding Remarks
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About this book
Chapters focus on examples that are drawn from a number of sources including previously unpublished studies on the impact of climate change, markets and economics on pastoralist and dryland farming households. The key focus is to provide readers with insights into the real world implications of change (including an analysis of the drivers of change) on these vulnerable groups within dryland societies. The role of humans as agents of these changes is canvassed. A regional analysis of the world's drylands is also performed including those in Australia, Argentina, India, North America, China, North Africa, Central Asia and Southern Africa.
Keywords
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Climate Adaptation in Arid Zones
- Climate Variability
- Ecology of Rangelands
- Global Environmental Change
- Grasslands of the World
- Livelihoods in Arid Regions
- Livestock Migration
- Pastoral Practices
- Pastoralist and Dryland Farming
- Rangeland Management
- Watershed Protection Initiatives
- world regional geography
- climate change impacts
Reviews
“Climate Variability Impacts on Land Use and Livelihoods in Drylands provides regional up-to-date information on the challenges facing the estimated billion people who use the drylands (also referred to as aridlands) that make up around half the world’s land area. The information in this book, including regionally specific examples providing new data and analyses relevant to development of more local strategies, provides a foundation for adaptation to the problems and opportunities identified under climate variability and changes already being experienced. These changes will affect the welfare and livelihoods of the millions of people who live in dryland regions, including some of the most economically disadvantaged peoples of the world. Climate Variability Impacts on Land Use and Livelihoods in Drylands represents a valuable collation of knowledge and data across the extensive and diverse dryland for Land use change specialists, policy makers and natural resource management agencies.” (Beverley Henry, Adjunct Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Australia; Director, Agri Escondo Pty Ltd.)
“This edited volume is devoted to the examination of the implications of the inevitable changes wrought by global change on the welfare and livelihoods of tens of millions of people who live in dryland regions. Land use change specialists, policy makers and natural resource management agencies will find the book very useful.” (Golnaz Kheradmand, Department of Rangeland Management, Islamic Azad University, Iran)
Editors and Affiliations
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ICAR-Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur, India
Mahesh K. Gaur
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Institute of Desertification Studies, Beijing, China
Victor R. Squires
About the editors
Dr. Mahesh Gaur is a Senior Scientist at the ICAR-Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur, India. He specializes in aridlands geography and the application of satellite remote sensing, GIS and digital image processing for natural resources mapping, management and assessment. He also researches drought, desertification, land degradation, indigenous knowledge systems, and the socio-economic milieu of the Thar Desert of India. He has worked as an Associate Professor for more than 13 years with the Department of Higher Education, Government of Rajasthan State, India and has also worked at Sandhan, Jaipur, IIM Ahmedabad, IHS Hyderabad and IN-RIMT in various capacities. He has been associated with ICAR, ISRO, SAC, UGC, various Ministries of Government of India, and ICARDA for sponsored studies. He has published two books and is the author of a number of research papers and book chapters that have appeared in national and international research journals. He is a member of a number ofnational and international scientific organizations and editorial boards of journals. He has been awarded the Indian Government Citizen Karamveer Award 2011 by iCONGO for working in the field of Higher Education, Environment and Technology Applications for Community Upliftment, and the Millennium Award for working in the field of Environment.
Dr. Victor Squires is a world renowned expert in rangeland ecology. He obtained his PhD in Rangeland Science from Utah State University, USA. He is the former Dean of the Faculty of Natural Resource Management at the University of Adelaide, where he worked for 15 years. He also worked at CSIRO, Australia’s leading research organization, for 22 years.He is the author/editor of 11 books including ‘Livestock Management in the Arid Zone’, ‘Range and Animal Sciences and Resources Management’, ‘Rangeland Stewardship in Central Asia: Balancing Improved Livelihoods’, ‘Biodiversity Conservation and Land Protection’, and Rangeland Ecology,Management and Conservation Benefits’, and has written numerous research papers on aspects of range/livestock relations. Since his retirement from the University of Adelaide, Dr. Squires has worked as a Visiting Fellow in the East West Center, Hawaii, and is currently an Adjunct Professor in the University of Arizona, Tucson USA and at the Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China. He has been a consultant to World Bank, Asian Development and various UN agencies in Africa, China, Central Asia and the Middle East. He was awarded the 2008 International Award and Gold Medal for International Science and Technology Cooperation by the Government of China and in 2011 was awarded the Friendship Award by the government of China. The Gold Medal is the highest award for foreigners. In 2015, Dr. Squires was honored by the Society for Range Management (USA) with an Outstanding Achievement Award.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Variability Impacts on Land Use and Livelihoods in Drylands
Editors: Mahesh K. Gaur, Victor R. Squires
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56681-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56680-1Published: 08 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85972-9Published: 12 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56681-8Published: 30 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 348
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour
Topics: World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions), Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Environmental Management, Ecosystems, Environmental Policy, Sustainable Development