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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Heshmati, G. Ali (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Squires, Victor R. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Physical geography.; Agriculture.; Landscape ecology.; Life Sciences.; Life Sciences, general.; Landscape Ecology.; Earth System Sciences.

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 erosion in sloping lands....

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.