Combating Desertification in Asia, Africa and the Middle East Proven practices /

This book of 21 chapters 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 erosi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Heshmati, G. Ali (Editor ), Squires, Victor R. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
Temas:
Life sciences.
Landscape ecology.
Agriculture.
Physical geography.
Life Sciences.
Landscape Ecology.
Earth System Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Editors Preface
  • Foreword
  • Chapter 1 Introduction to Deserts and Desertified regions in China
  • Chapter 2 Controlling Sand Movement through Mechanical Measures: China's Experience
  • Chapter 3 Successful Biological methods for combating desertification at degraded areas of China
  • Chapter 4 Libya: Reversal of land degradation and desertification through better land management
  • Chapter 5 Desertification and its control in Morocco
  • Chapter 6 Egypt: Land degradation issues with special reference to the impact of Climate Change
  • Chapter7 Combating Desertification in Kenya
  • Chapter 8 Lesotho: desertification control program
  • Chapter 9 Desert Environments of Republic of Chad
  • Chapter 10 Desertification Control in Niger: The medium Term Action Plan 2006-2011
  • Chapter 11 Mongolia: Country Features, the Main Causes of Desertification and Remediation Efforts
  • Chapter 12 Arid Land Development and Combating Desertification in Pakistan
  • Chapter 13 Uzbekistan: Rehabilitation of Desert Rangelands affected by Salinity, to Improve Food Security, Combat Desertification and maintain the Natural Resource Base
  • Chapter 14 Review of efforts to Combat Desertification and arrest and reverse land degradation in Myanmar
  • Chapter15 The Philippines Action Plan to Combat Desertification, Land Degradation, Drought and Poverty/a
  • Chapter 16 Managing Arid Areas and Sand Dunes in Sri Lanka
  • Chapter 17 Indigenous plant species from the drylands of Iran, distribution and potential for habitat maintenance and repair
  • Chapter 18 Soil and Water Conservation for Desertification control in Iran
  • Chapter 19 Land Degradation in The Sultanate of Oman: Reasons and Interventions Measures
  • Chapter 20 Desert Development: how does it relate to anti desertification measures?
  • Chapter 21 Replication and scaling up: where to from here?
  • Appendix List of the full botanical names of plants with authorities
  • Index.

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