The proposed English-French-Spanish-Russian glossary contains principal terms dealing with the investigation and development of arid lands. The terms have been included on desert environment, several regional terms, terms on land melioration, pasture management and desertification control. The terms have been arranged alphabetically.

By selecting terms the author used the terminology of UNEP (Desertification information System), terms used by other International Organizations, terms included into other thematic glossaries or used in scientific publications. The glossary has indices in French, Spanish and Russian.

Proposed English-French-Spanish-Russian dictionary, made by N.HARIN, the well known scientist, one of leading specialist in the field of studies of Central Asia desert, in collaboration with japanese scientist R. Tateishi, contains the extensive terminology on arid to themes, connected with study and use of arid zones. Dictionary includes terms on desert nature, some regional terms, as well as terms on land reclamations of the lands, pasture facilities, methods of the fight with the desertification. The terms on ground, timber land, flood plain, conditions of irrigation are considered. The terms in the Glossary are placed in alphabetically in English.
The Glossary consists of two parts.

In the first part description of 1913 terms devoted to the desertification is given in English, French, Spanish and Russian on 286 pages. In the second part Alphabetical index of the same terms in French, Spanish and Russian is presented on 116 pages.

Authors used the YUNEP terminology ( Desertification Information System), terms, applicable by other international organization, as well as industry specific dictionaries and scientific publications (the references of 30 scientific sources).

This book will be useful for broad auditory of researchers studying processes of desertification in most regions of terrestrial globe, since desertification lands at became a global problem. UNO Convention on desertification was signed in Paris in 1994. According to the Convention the desertification is determined as degradation of soils in arid, semiarid territory as a result of actions of different factors, including change of climate and human activity. Many countries joined the Convention, including Russia. The desertification control is executed all over the world in order to avoid yearly lost of fertile lands. The book will help the scientists from different countries, involved in the problem of desertification to understand each other better.