The papers from the symposium will contribute and enhance the knowledge of how to improve the management of drylands. Resource management in drylands, development projects in drylands, sand and dust hazard in deserts, slope erosion and its control in the traditional farm land, monitoring environmental change in the drylandsare among the topics discussed in this publication. The library has a hard copy

CONTENTS: Response diagram : a possibility to predict sand movement / H Besler (8 p.). --
Estimating sand and dust hazard in deserts : an example from Saudi Arabia / R. U Cooke (12 p.). --
Slope erosion and its control in the traditional farm land of the Rif-Atlas Mountains in Morocco / Horst G Mensching (8 p.). --
Relationship between human settlement and natural environment in Beni Boufrah (Central Rif, Morocco) and its relevance to resource management / P. D Jungerius (14 p.). --
Maknussa : large scale agricultural project in the extremely arid Fezzan, SW-Libya / R Vogg (10 p.). --
For a multiscalar approach to development projects in drylands : theoretical issues and the case of the "New Valley" / P Faggi (10 p.). --
Monitoring environmental change in the drylands of Sudan / Douglas L Johnson (16 p.). --
Land use problems in the south-Sahelian Jebel Marra Foreland (Darfur, Rep. of Sudan) / V Haarmann (14 p.).
Water resources management in the oasis of Damascus / Masanori Naito (12 p.). --
Problems, probable solutions and prospects of canal water supply of the ecosystem of the Rajasthan Canal Command Area, India / B. L Sukwal (12 p.). --
State of environment and resource management in drylands of north India / R. B Singh (14 p.). --
Energy equation for dryland wheat, Central Great Plains, North America / H. J Späth (16 p.).