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Monograph on the MAB programme concerned with the development of semi-arid and arid zones - assesses the obstacles to development in the fields of animal husbandry, agricultural development, urban development, industrial development and tourism, provides proposals for these zones, mentioning irrigation, dry farming techniques and systematic use of trees, also refers to the transfer of technology…

The explanatory note gives definitions and explains degrees of desertification hazard. Criteria are given for the different bioclimates, distinguished on the accompanying maps. Four classes of vulnerability to desertification are considered: areas of sand movement, areas subject to stripping by deflation and/or sheetwash, areas subject to accelerated gully erosion, and areas subject to…

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…