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In paragraph 8 of resolution 32/172 of 19 December 1977, the General Assembly requested the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to report to it, through the Economic and Social Council, at its thirty-third session and every two years thereafter, on the irplenentation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification. The Governing Council's report on this matter to…

This volume presents the investigations of the study group"Desertification in extremely arid environments". The members report on their investigation results and work concentrated on oases, Northern Africa and Near East. Those parts of old world deserts seem to be characteristic, offering a good insight into the problems because of widespread desertification.

The present volume reproduces edited versions of six case studies commissioned by UNESCO and supported by UNDP summarized in a chapter and present some general conslusions arising from the experience of desertification and measures to combat it.

At its thirty-third session, the General Assembly, by its resolution 33/89 of 15 December 19,8, took note of the report of the Secretary-General on the studY of additional measures and means of financing for the implementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification (A/33/260) and requested the Secretary-General to solicit views of Governments concerning this study and to report on the…

The history of man's use of arid lands is a sad record of deterioration of the natural resource base and of low and declining living standards for the 300 million people who live in them. One prerequisite to meeting the challenge of reversing the deterioration and of raising living standards is a sound knowledge of the natural ecosystems. It is to this end that the IBP and other relevant studies,…

The brochure is a helpful resource for the problems of erosion of natural resources and the environment as a whole. 1. The situation 2. The role of population growth 3. The destruction of the vegetation 4. The ecological three - sentence climate - soil - vegetation 5. Erosion by wind 6. The consequences of large-scale deforestation 7. Landscape ecological…