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Desertification, Land Degradation and Sustainability
ISBN: 978-0-470-71449-2
December 2011
344 pages
Desertification, Land Degradation and Sustainability offers a comprehensive overview of the subject and provides the reader with the concepts and principles necessary to understand the issues involved and develop appropriate responses.
This book tackles the issues surrounding desertification in a number of ways from differing scales (local to global), processes (physical to human), the relationship of desertification to current global development and management responses at varying levels.
Clearly structured throughout, the content of the book is organised across different scales; local, regional and global. It also specifically explains processes linking top-down and bottom- up interactions and has a strong human component. Focus is placed on the historical, cultural and physical context.
This book provides an authoritative and integrated synthesis of research in the field which will be an essential reference text for those students taking relevant courses within Geography and the Earth and Environmental Sciences.