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Validation and comparison of various indicators of long term changes in arid Mediterranean ecosystems: Application for desertification monitoring in southern Tunisia. ( These Pour obtenir le grade de: Docteur de l’université de droit, d’économie et des sciences d’Aix-Marseille Discipline: Ecologie) As many rangelands surrounding the Mediterranean Basin, the Tunisian arid zone,…

After the devastating dust storms that swept across Northern China in 2000, there was much interest in examining and analyzing experiences with dust storm mitigation, prevention, forecasting and control. There was a need to document the nature, extent, causal factors associated with the severe sand and dust storms experienced in China itself and which threatened the lives and livelihoods of…

New edition of Environmental Problems in Third World Cities Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America contain some of the world's most life- and health-threatening human environments. Environment-related diseases and injuries cause millions of preventable deaths each year. In many squatter settlements, children are 40 to 50 times more likely to die before the age of five than they would be in…

With the increasing concern over rural livelihoods and the food security of poor communities in developing countries, it is vital that land quality is maintained. Yet, land degradation is widespread and is lowering the productive capacity of the land in these countries. This practical handbook presents simple, non-technical indicators for assessing land degradation in the field…

In this illustrated work, the author shares with us the fruits of more than a quarter of careful observation of traditional knowledge and techniques applied to urban settlements and landscape resources management in all regions of the world. The book introduces us to very sophisticated, thousand-year-old, capacities developed by local communities and civilizations around the world,…

The aim of this paper is to analyse the institutional arrangements for gaining access to land and natural resources in southern Benin. This study analyses these practices in two zones, the Allada region and the coastal zone around the city of Ouidah, each of which has particular conditions of access to land. It considers the link between certain trends (demography, the development of markets, the…