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All publications & documents
Land Degradation & Development is an international journal which seeks to promote rational study of the recognition, monitoring, control and rehabilitation of degradation in terrestrial environments. The journal focuses on: what land degradation is; what causes land degradation; the impacts of land degradation; the scale of land degradation; the history, current status or future trends of land…
The OECD Development Centre links OECD members with developing and emerging economies and fosters debate and discussion to seek creative policy solutions to emerging global issues and development challenges. This series of working papers is intended to disseminate the OECD Development Centre’s research findings rapidly among specialists in the field concerned. These papers are generally available…
In 1960 UNESCO marked the end of its major arid lands project with a conference in Paris. Until then the nature of arid lands and the problems of their residents has not been addressed in such a comprehensive manner. Later the landmark United Nations Conference On Desertification (UNCOD) held in Nairobi in 1977 capped the largest and most recent interest in the arid zones. These…
Desertification control bulletin is an international bulletin published in six monthly intervals by UNEP to disseminate information and knowledge on desertification problems and to present news on the programmes, activities and achievements in the implementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification around the world. ( The bulletin is ceased in 2000. UNCCD library collection has most of…
Desertification control bulletin is an international bulletin published in six monthly intervals by UNEP to disseminate information and knowledge on desertification problems and to present news on the programmes, activities and achievements in the implementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification around the world. ( The bulletin is ceased in 2000. UNCCD library collection has most of…
The book addresses the world problem of desertification. It presents the likely means for raising additional resources needed to implement worldwide programme to combat the problem.The United Nations Conference on Desertification (UNCOD,1977) showed that desertification was one of the major environmental problems of the world. Its cost in human, social and economic terms is extremely high.