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Sustainable Land Management in Greater Central Asia: An Integrated and Regional Perspective book cover

1st Edition

Sustainable Land Management in Greater Central Asia An Integrated and Regional Perspective

Edited By Victor Squires, Lu Qi Copyright 2018
336 Pages
by Routledge

334 Pages 18 Color & 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

334 Pages 18 Color & 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Greater Central Asia encompasses a vast area that includes deserts, natural grasslands, steppes, shrublands and alpine regions. Many of these land types are degraded and productivity is falling at a time when human populations and livestock inventories are on the rise. Ecosystem stability and biodiversity are under threat and there is an urgent need to develop more sustainable land management... Read more

Part I: Introduction





1. Greater Central Asia: its peoples and their history and geography



2. Biogeography and natural resources of Greater Central Asia: an overview



3. Managing the commons in the post-Soviet transition: what are the challenges of institutional change in pastoral systems in Uzbekistan?



Part II: Sustainable land management: a dream or an economic and ecological imperative



4. Sustainable land management: a pathway to sustainable development



5. The future we want: putting aspirations for a land degradation neutral world into practice in the GCA region



6. Barriers to sustainable land management in Greater Central Asia: with special reference to the five former Soviet republics



Part III: The nature and extent of land degradation in Greater Central Asia



7. Assessment of land degradation processes and identification of long-term trends in vegetation dynamics in the drylands of Greater Central Asia



8. Land degradation indicators: development and implementation by remote sensing techniques



9. Mitigation of desertification and land degradation impacts and multilateral cooperation in Greater Central Asia



Part IV: Thematic issues of SLM in Great Central Asia



10. Water in Central Asia: a cross-cutting management issue



11. Water from the mountains of Greater Central Asia: a resource under threat



Part V: Consolidating and summarizing findings: the way forward



12. Greater Central Asia as the new frontier in the twenty-first century



13. Greater Central Asia: China, Russia or multilateralism?



14. Unifying perspectives on land, water, people, national development and an agenda for future social-ecological research

Biography

Victor R. Squires is a Guest Professor in the Institute of Desertification Studies, Beijing and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.



Lu Qi is Director and Chief Researcher of the Institute of Desertification Studies, Chinese Academy of Forestry, China.

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