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Desertification is a global problem threatens over 250 million people living in dryland regions that cover approximately 35 million km2 in nearly 100 countries. Only recently has global climate change received increasing attention as a major factor that contributes to desertification. At the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro, the effect of…

At the first Conference of the Parties of the Climate Convention in Berlin in Spring 1995 it became evident once again: To counteract anthropogenic climate changes, individuals as well as societies have to change their way of thinking and behavior. This accounts for other areas of global environmental change as well. Global trends like soil degradation, loss of biological diversity, water…

The Symposium was significant in producing by consensus a Statement of Principles, reproduced below, that sets a framework for action to prevent and mitigate environmentally induced population displacement and to address the negative environmental consequences of mass migration.In all discussion sessions and presentations, environmental destruction was consistently analysed in its wider socio…

In Bangladesh, vulnerability and adaptation assessments are being performed for the following sectors: agriculture, water resources, and coastal resources. More limited assessments are also being performed for the fisheries and forestry sectors. These sectoral analyses are in the preliminary stages. This chapter introduces the climate change issues in the country, and the four types of climate…

Founded in the 1970s, the Journal Nomadic Peoples has a long and respected position in the scholarship devoted to peoples who maintain a mobile way of life. The journal's aim is to deal with all types of nomadic peoples, such as pastoral nomads, foragers, peripatetics (gypsies), and so-called sea nomads. Its aim is to provide the scientific community and the general public with new research on…

This interdisciplinary experts workshop, held in Valencia during June 1994, convened remote sensing specialists from various desciplines involved in desertification and land degradation monitoring, but also representatives of potential end-users, e.g. coming from national and supra-national agencies. Desertification undoubtedly manifests itself through changing land surface…