1st Edition
Desertification in the Third Millennium Proceedings of an International Conference, Dubai, 12-15 February 2000
504 Pages
by
CRC Press
This wide-ranging selection of original papers covers many aspects of desertification including environmental and weather factors, land management policy, groundwater resources, understanding biodiversity in fragile ecosystems, technological approaches to the study and remedy of desertification.
Preface; Acknowledgement; PART 1. Desertification and Global Climatic Change; PART 2. Biodiversity, Mangroves and other Halophytes and their Conservation Ecosystems; PART 3. The Effect of Wind and Water on Soil Erosion and Sand Creep; PART 4. Land Degradation and Management in Arid, Semi-Arid and Dry Sub-Humid Areas; PART 5. Policies and Cost/Benefit for Combating Land Degradation and Desertification; PART 6. Application of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) to Study Desertification; PART 7. Groundwater Resources in Desert Areas; Author index
Biography
A.S. Alsharhan, W.W. Wood, A.S. Goudie, A. Fowler, E.M. Abdellatif
