The End of Desertification? Disputing Environmental Change in the Drylands /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Behnke, Roy (Editor), Mortimore, Michael (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Springer Earth System Sciences,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Climate change.; Geology.; Atmospheric sciences.; Economic geography.; Nature conservation.; Earth Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Nature Conservation.; Economic Geography.

The question in the title of this book draws attention to the shortcomings of a concept that has become a political tool of global importance even as the scientific basis for its use grows weaker. The concept of desertification, it can be argued, has ceased to be analytically useful and distorts our...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1. Foreword: The Great Sahelian Desertification Boondoggle
• Part 2. Social and political consequences of the Sahelian droughts
• Part 3. Scientific causes of the Sahelian droughts
• Part 4. A global assessment of desertification
• Part 5. The capacity to adapt
• Part 6. Lessons learnt.