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The present volume is part of a series of Land Tenure Studies produced by FAO’s Land Tenure Service of the Rural Development Division. Land tenure plays a vital role in achieving sustainable rural development. Increasing technological change and economic integration are requiring policy makers, planners, development experts and rural producers to re-examine the institutional arrangements used to…

Thesis (doctoral) --Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 1995 Contents: Map 1. Vegetation formations in 1991/92 and desertification in the Butana-region map 2. Vegetation formations in 1992/1993 and desertification in the Butana-Region map 3. Geomorphology and morphodynamics of the Butana.

The quiencentary of the Columbian encounter was met with an outpouring of concern about how this event and its repercussions were to be interpreted. Environmental impacts have ranked high among the concerns raised. Current modelling of some environmental changes requires an understanding of changes associated with the encounter. List of content: Part 1:…

This is a story of how a team of dedicated scientists from Japan have sought to come to terms with desert areas in many parts of the world. They have developed many ways of transforming, little by little, areas considered barren and useless, through well-planned technical solutions allied to hard physical work. Starting with the sand dune areas in Japan, the story weaves its way…

Women who become involved in UN world conferences are making a decision to participate in global governance. They are staking out a sphere of influencde over the setting of international priorities, efforts which ultimately affect national and local policy-making. The process of setting and implementation policy is but one type of activity in which women advocates and organizers are…

Desertification has re-emerged as a topic of global significance as a consequence of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. When first addressed over a generation ago, attention was drawn to the compelling, spectacular images of sand dunes engulfing farmlands and parched cattle dying around wells. Research tended to focus on these events as unusual phenomena that involved…