218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
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Recent international attention has focused on desertification and its concomitants , especially the diminution of flora and fauna in arid and semiarid lands and the resulting reduction in the economic value of those lands. Natural factors such as drought and wind erosion, as well as various technological practices, have been blamed for the present situation in many countries. Most observers... Read more
Foreword -- Introduction -- An Empirical Approach to Prehistoric Agrarian Collapse: The Case of the Moche Valley, Peru -- Farmers and Technical Experts: Information Flow in Irrigated Agriculture -- Human Use of the Pre-Saharan Ecosystem and Its Impact on Desertization -- Utilization of Surface Water by Northern Arabian Bedouins -- Agroecosystem Diversity: A Model from the Sonoran Desert -- A Rational–Choice Model of Agricultural Resource Utilization and Conservation -- Drought versus Desertification: The Case of the Sahel -- Some Observations on Adaptation to Semi-arid Environments
Biography
Nancie L. Gonzalez,
