Changing Deserts

Author : Lisa McPartland
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781725300231

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Changing Desert Environments by Lisa McPartland Pdf

Many people have heard of Earth's largest deserts: the Sahara in northern Africa, the Gobi in east central Asia, and the Arabian in the Arabian Peninsula. However, some people may not know that these deserts weren't always so big. Desertification is the process by which natural or human causes turn previously productive land into desert areas. This book explores the different causes of desertification and the ways even longtime desert lands can change. Fact boxes and sidebars provide readers with additional information relating to the main text.

Author : Martin Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107016910

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Climate Change in Deserts by Martin Williams Pdf

A synthesis of the environmental and climatic history of every major desert and desert margin, for researchers and advanced students.

Author : Dan Rabinowitz
Publisher : Stanford Briefs
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1503609987

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The Power of Deserts by Dan Rabinowitz Pdf

Hotter and dryer than most parts of the world, the Middle East could soon see climate change exacerbate food and water shortages, aggravate social inequalities, and drive displacement and political destabilization. And as renewable energy eclipses fossil fuels, oil rich countries in the Middle East will see their wealth diminish. Amidst these imminent risks is a call to action for regional leaders. Could countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates harness the region's immense potential for solar energy and emerge as vanguards of global climate action? The Power of Deserts surveys regional climate models and identifies the potential impact on socioeconomic disparities, population movement, and political instability. Offering more than warning and fear, however, the book highlights a potentially brighter future--a recent shift across the Middle East toward renewable energy. With his deep knowledge of the region and knack for presenting scientific data with clarity, Dan Rabinowitz makes a sober yet surprisingly optimistic investigation of opportunity arising from a looming crisis.

Author : A.S. Alsharhan,K.W. Glennie,G.L. Whittle
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000099874

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Quaternary Deserts and Climatic Change by A.S. Alsharhan,K.W. Glennie,G.L. Whittle Pdf

These proceedings record the results of climate change in many areas which are hyper-arid deserts today but which, almost cyclically, at intervals of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, have had a much more humid climate.

Author : Steve Donahue
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781609943875

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Shifting Sands by Steve Donahue Pdf

How to stop thinking about life’s inevitable transitions as goals to reach and learn how to navigate through times of unpredictability and uncertainty. We live in a culture, Steve Donahue writes, which loves “climbing mountains.” We want to see the peak, map out a route, and follow it to the top. Sometimes this approach works, but not always, particularly when we are enduring a personal crisis—divorce, job loss, addiction, illness, or death. We may not know exactly where we are going, how to get there, or even how we’ll know we’ve arrived. And it’s not just in times of crisis. There are many deserts in our lives, situations with no clear paths or boundaries. Finding a job is usually a mountain, but changing careers can be a desert. Having a baby is a mountain, especially for the mom. But raising a child is a desert. Battling cancer is a mountain. Living with a chronic illness is a desert. In the desert, we need to follow different rules than we follow when conquering a mountain. We need to be more intuitive, more patient, more spontaneous. Donahue outlines six “rules of desert travel” that will help us discover our direction by wandering, find our own personal oases, and cross our self-imposed borders. Shifting Sands shows us how to slow down, reflect, and embrace the changes of life graciously, naturally, and courageously.

Author : B.K. Tyagi,Q.H. Baqri
Publisher : Scientific Publishers
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789387307506

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Changing Faunal Ecology in the Thar Desert by B.K. Tyagi,Q.H. Baqri Pdf

Changing Faunal Ecology in the Thar Desert - dedicated to the fond memory of Professor Dr. Ishwar Prakash, the legendary rodentologist - is a unique mlange of scientific investigations on diversified ecological subjects pertaining to different organism groups, from as tiny as protozoa to as giant as mammals. Altogether sixteen contributions, including an original, up-to-date and authentic bio-bibliography of Dr. I. Prakash, make this volume an exceptional treatise penned by 24 expert scientist authors many of whom have spent a life in arid ecosystems including the Thar Desert. The book provides a crystal clear proof of the constantly changing behavioural ecology of animals in the Thar Desert which has been under an ever increasing impact of, among several imminent factors, the Indira Gandhi Nahar Pariyojana (IGNP), one of the worlds largest irrigation systems of its type in a xeric environment. The change is discernible not only in structure and distribution of animals but in their resting, feeding, breeding and, as evident in case of parasites, the extent of parasitism as well as pathogenecity. Finally, this book offers the first well documented evidence of immense behavioral transformation in various different animal groups in the Tharp Desert a phenomenon of enormous significance for both conservation management and diversity inventorization activities of its faunal wealth.

Author : Lisa Mol,Troy Sternberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Deserts
ISBN : 1874267693

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Changing Deserts by Lisa Mol,Troy Sternberg Pdf

Deserts - vast, empty places where time appears to stand still. The very word conjures images of endless seas of sand, blistering heat and a virtual absence of life. However, deserts encompass a large variety of landscapes and life beyond our stereotypes. As well as magnificent Saharan dunes under blazing sun, the desert concept encompasses the intensely cold winters of the Gobi, the snow- covered expanse of Antarctica and the rock- strewn drylands of Pakistan. Deserts are environments in perpetual flux and home to peoples as diverse as their surroundings, peoples who grapple with a broad spectrum of cultural, political and environmental issues as they wrest livelihoods from marginal lands. The cultures, environments and histories of deserts, while fundamentally entangled, are rarely studied as part of a network. To bring different disciplines together, the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Deserts Conference in March 2010 brought together a wide range of researchers from backgrounds as varied as physics, history, archaeology anthropology, geology and geography. This volume draws on the diversity of papers presented to give an overview of current research in deserts and drylands. Readers are invited to explore the wide range of desert environments and peoples and the ever-evolving challenges they face.

Author : Lisa Mol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1912186314

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Changing Deserts by Lisa Mol Pdf

Deserts – vast, empty places where time appears to stand still. The very word conjures images of endless seas of sand, blistering heat and a virtual absence of life. However, deserts encompass a large variety of landscapes and life beyond our stereotypes. As well as magnificent Saharan dunes under blazing sun, the desert concept encompasses the intensely cold winters of the Gobi, the snow-covered expanse of Antarctica and the rock-strewn drylands of Pakistan. Deserts are environments in perpetual flux and home to peoples as diverse as their surroundings, peoples who grapple with a broad spectrum of cultural, political and environmental issues as they wrest livelihoods from marginal lands.The cultures, environments and histories of deserts, while fundamentally entangled, are rarely studied as part of a network. To bring different disciplines together, the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Deserts Conference in March 2010 brought together a wide range of researchers from backgrounds as varied as physics, history, archaeology anthropology, geology and geography. This volume draws on the diversity of papers presented to give an overview of current research in deserts and drylands. Readers are invited to explore the wide range of desert environments and peoples and the ever-evolving challenges they face.

Author : Eddie John Van Etten,Glenda M. Wardle,Matthew Brooks,Aaron Greenville
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832502433

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Fire Regimes in Desert Ecosystems: Drivers, Impacts and Changes by Eddie John Van Etten,Glenda M. Wardle,Matthew Brooks,Aaron Greenville Pdf

Author : Ada Graham,Frank Graham
Publisher : Atheneum
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Desert ecology
ISBN : 0684171465

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The Changing Desert by Ada Graham,Frank Graham Pdf

Describes the plants, animals, weather, and history of desert areas; man's adverse influence on these lands; and efforts to preserve what is left.

Author : John T. C. Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Maricopa County (Ariz.)
ISBN : UCR:31210025352574

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Channel Change and Sediment Transport in Two Desert Streams in Central Arizona, 1991-92 by John T. C. Parker Pdf

Author : Neil Morris
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1410901769

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Earth's Changing Deserts by Neil Morris Pdf

Examines how deserts are formed and how they are constantly changing, what animals and plants live there, ways in which humans live in and change deserts.

Author : Lisa A McPartland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1725300214

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Changing Desert Environments by Lisa A McPartland Pdf

Author : Timothy M. Kusky
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781438118451

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Climate Change by Timothy M. Kusky Pdf

Part of an eight-volume set for students, this book examines the past, present, and future of Earth's climate.

Author : National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources,Food and Nutrition Board
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309137287

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The Public Health Effects of Food Deserts by National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources,Food and Nutrition Board Pdf

In the United States, people living in low-income neighborhoods frequently do not have access to affordable healthy food venues, such as supermarkets. Instead, those living in "food deserts" must rely on convenience stores and small neighborhood stores that offer few, if any, healthy food choices, such as fruits and vegetables. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Research Council (NRC) convened a two-day workshop on January 26-27, 2009, to provide input into a Congressionally-mandated food deserts study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. The workshop, summarized in this volume, provided a forum in which to discuss the public health effects of food deserts.