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Desertification has intensified in recent decades throughout the world. It is now threatening the future of over 600 million people inhabiting arid and semi-arid lands that cover more than a third of the earth's land area. This volume, comprising four global reviews and an overview, was prepared as a background document for the delegates to the United Nations Conference on…

Desertification: Environmental Degradation in and Around Arid Lands will be useful to those who seek an understanding of desertification. This book is a collection of works by several authors. The editor begins with an examination of the attention that the United Nations has paid to the global problem of desertification. Glantz offers definitions of desertification and discusses the cyclic nature…

Desertification is a major problem in the drylands of India, affecting the way of life for its inhabitants. The problem is more severe in the arid lands in the north-western part of the country, especially in the desert tracts of Rajasthan and Gujarat, as also in the states of Haryana and Punjab.Wind erosion is a major problem in the Rajasthan part of the desert (containing the Thar or the Great…

In this concise yet informative account, designed for students and for providing background reading, the authors have consciously restricted themselves to warm deserts and, in particular, their physical environment, which makes these areas so inhospitable to man. Particular attention is paid to the deserts of the Old World, notably the Middle East, India and Africa, where the authors have done…

This book examines the geomorphological processes that operate in arid zone environments. The monograph is the proceedings volume of the Eighth Annual Geomorphology Symposium held at the State University of New York at Binghamptom, September 23-24, 1977. The symposium topic ," Geomorphology in arid regions" uses the term" arid" loosely to include studies from areas which might be otherwise…

The book is based on the International Symposium 16-27 February 1976, Alexandria, Egypt . The purpose was to bring all main scientific disciplines to bear on irrigation in arid lands, especially on the environmental problems and with an emphasis on developing countries. Arid Land Irrigation in Developing Countries: Environmental Problems and Effects covers the proceedings of the International…