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oapen-20.500.12657-534442023-02-01T09:01:32Z Changing Deserts Mol, Lisa Sternberg, Troy Nature Ecosystems & Habitats Deserts History Essays Nature Essays bic Book Industry Communication::W Lifestyle, sport & leisure::WN Natural history::WNW The Earth: natural history general bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBG General & world history bic Book Industry Communication::W Lifestyle, sport & leisure::WN Natural history Deserts – vast, empty places where time appears to stand still. The very word conjures images of endless seas of sand, blistering heat and a virtual absence of life. However, deserts encompass a large variety of landscapes and life beyond our stereotypes. As well as magnificent Saharan dunes under blazing sun, the desert concept encompasses the intensely cold winters of the Gobi, the snow-covered expanse of Antarctica and the rock-strewn drylands of Pakistan. Deserts are environments in perpetual flux and home to peoples as diverse as their surroundings, peoples who grapple with a broad spectrum of cultural, political and environmental issues as they wrest livelihoods from marginal lands. The cultures, environments and histories of deserts, while fundamentally entangled, are rarely studied as part of a network. To bring different disciplines together, the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Deserts Conference in March 2010 brought together a wide range of researchers from backgrounds as varied as physics, history, archaeology anthropology, geology and geography. This volume draws on the diversity of papers presented to give an overview of current research in deserts and drylands. Readers are invited to explore the wide range of desert environments and peoples and the ever-evolving challenges they face. 2022-03-18T05:32:24Z 2022-03-18T05:32:24Z 2012 book 9781912186310 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53444 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf The White Horse Press The White Horse Press https://doi.org/10.3197/9781912186310.book 7283 https://doi.org/10.3197/9781912186310.book c2fc20c8-9286-446f-8610-d8910244672b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781912186310 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) The White Horse Press Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Deserts – vast, empty places where time appears to stand still. The very word conjures images of endless seas of sand, blistering heat and a virtual absence of life. However, deserts encompass a large variety of landscapes and life beyond our stereotypes. As well as magnificent Saharan dunes under blazing sun, the desert concept encompasses the intensely cold winters of the Gobi, the snow-covered expanse of Antarctica and the rock-strewn drylands of Pakistan. Deserts are environments in perpetual flux and home to peoples as diverse as their surroundings, peoples who grapple with a broad spectrum of cultural, political and environmental issues as they wrest livelihoods from marginal lands. The cultures, environments and histories of deserts, while fundamentally entangled, are rarely studied as part of a network. To bring different disciplines together, the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Deserts Conference in March 2010 brought together a wide range of researchers from backgrounds as varied as physics, history, archaeology anthropology, geology and geography. This volume draws on the diversity of papers presented to give an overview of current research in deserts and drylands. Readers are invited to explore the wide range of desert environments and peoples and the ever-evolving challenges they face.
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