Social and technological management in dry lands : past and present, indigenous and imposed /

Recent international attention has focused on desertification and its concomitants, especially the diminution of flora and fauna in arid and semiarid lands and the resulting reduction in the economic value of those lands. Natural factors such as drought and wind erosion, as well as various technolog...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: González, Nancie L. Solien, 1929- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Colección:AAAS selected symposium.
Temas:
Human ecology.
Arid regions agriculture > Environmental aspects.
Desertification > Social aspects.
Droughts > Social aspects.
Écologie humaine.
Agriculture des régions arides > Aspect de l'environnement.
Désertification > Aspect social.
Sécheresses > Aspect social.
human ecology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Arid regions agriculture > Environmental aspects
Desertification > Social aspects
Droughts > Social aspects
Human ecology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • An Empirical Approach to Prehistoric Agrarian Collapse: The Case of the Moche Valley, Peru
  • Farmers and Technical Experts: Information Flow in Irrigated Agriculture
  • Human Use of the Pre-Saharan Ecosystem and Its Impact on Desertization
  • Utilization of Surface Water by Northern Arabian Bedouins
  • Agroecosystem Diversity: A Model from the Sonoran Desert
  • A Rational-Choice Model of Agricultural Resource Utilization and Conservation
  • Drought versus Desertification: The Case of the Sahel
  • Some Observations on Adaptation to Semi-arid Environments

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