Handbook On Desertification Indicators

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Science
ISBN : WISC:89031096795

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Handbook on Desertification Indicators by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anton Imeson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119978480

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Desertification, Land Degradation and Sustainability by Anton Imeson Pdf

Desertification offers a comprehensive overview of the subject and clearly emphasizes the link between local and global desertification processes and how past and current policy has affected arid environments and their populations. This text adequately applies the research undertaken during the last 15 years on the topic. Desertification has become increasingly politicized and there is a need to present and explain the facts from a global perspective. This book tackles the issues surrounding desertification in a number of ways from differing scales (local to global), processes (physical to human), the relationship of desertification to current global development and management responses at different scales. Desertification has been mainstreamed and integrated into other areas of concern and has consequently been ignored as a cross cutting issue. The book redresses this balance. Making use of much original data and information that has been undertaken by many scientists andpractitioners during the last decade in different parts of the world, Desertification, Land Degradation and Sustainability is organised according to the principles of adaptive management and hierarchy theory and clearly explains desertification within a framework of evolving and interacting physical and socio-economic systems. In addition to research data the book also draws from the National Action Plans of different countries, the IPCC Fourth Assessment on Climate Change and the Millennium assessments. Clearly structured throughout, the content of the book is organised at different scales; local, regional and global. It also specifically explains processes linking top-down and bottom- up interactions and has a strong human component. The historical, cultural and physical context is also stressed. Clearly organised into the following distinct sections: a) Concepts and processes b) Data c) Impacts d) Responses e) Case studies. This text is essential for anyone studying desertification as part of an earth and environmental science degree.

Author : Harold E. Dregne
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3718601680

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Desertification of Arid Lands by Harold E. Dregne Pdf

First Published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : N. A. Geeson,C. J. Brandt,J. B. Thornes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470856864

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Mediterranean Desertification by N. A. Geeson,C. J. Brandt,J. B. Thornes Pdf

Desertification includes land degradation due to both climatic and anthropogenic causes, where land includes water, soil, and the biosphere. This book presents the most recent findings from the European Community's MEDALUS project, which was formed to understand and manage semi-arid environments that are undergoing great change. * Covers climate and land use processes and responses in the Mediterranean * First book to provide guidelines for the management of land degradation in Mediterranean environments * Based on first-hand experience of the problems by those responsible for solving them

Author : Sun, Zhaohao
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781668459614

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Handbook of Research on Driving Socioeconomic Development With Big Data by Sun, Zhaohao Pdf

Socioeconomic development has drawn increasing attention in academia, industries, and governments. The relationship between big data and its technologies and socioeconomic development has drawn certain attention in academia. Socioeconomic development depends not only on big data, but also on big data technologies. However, the relationship between big data and socioeconomic development is not adequately covered in current research. The Handbook of Research on Driving Socioeconomic Development With Big Data provides an original and innovative understanding of and insight into how the proposed theories, technologies, and methodologies of big data can improve socioeconomic development and sustainable development in terms of business and services, healthcare, the internet of everything, sharing economy, and more. Covering topics such as corporate social responsibility, management applications, and process mining, this major reference work is an excellent resource for data scientists, business leaders and executives, IT professionals, government officials, economists, sociologists, librarians, students, researchers, and academicians.

Author : Alta Sharon Walker,Charles Joseph Robinove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Desertification
ISBN : UCR:31210020731970

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Annotated Bibliography of Remote Sensing Methods for Monitoring Desertification by Alta Sharon Walker,Charles Joseph Robinove Pdf

Author : Mannava VK Sivakumar,Raymond P. Motha
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540727460

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Managing Weather and Climate Risks in Agriculture by Mannava VK Sivakumar,Raymond P. Motha Pdf

Based on an International Workshop held in New Delhi, India, this work should be of interest to all organizations and agencies interested in improved risk management in agriculture. In many parts of the world, weather and climate are one of the biggest production risks and uncertainty factors impacting on agricultural systems performance and management. Both structural and non-structural measures can be used to reduce the impacts of the variability (including extremes) of climate resources on crop production.

Author : Saeid Eslamian,Faezeh A. Eslamian
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351851176

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Handbook of Drought and Water Scarcity by Saeid Eslamian,Faezeh A. Eslamian Pdf

This volume includes over 30 chapters, written by experts from around the world. It examines the environmental aspects of drought such as groundwater and soil contamination, river low-flow, urban water quality, and desertification. It also examines the effects of climate change and variability on drought, and discusses the differences in groundwater, rainfall, and temperatures and their related effects. It presents analytical modeling for better understanding drought in uncertain and changing climates.

Author : Sven Erik Jorgensen,Brian D. Fath
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 3829 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000082548

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Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition – Six Volume Set by Sven Erik Jorgensen,Brian D. Fath Pdf

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, the Handbook of Environmental Management, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions. Through in-depth entries, and a topical table of contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about pollution and management issues. This six-volume set is a reimagining of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and features insights from more than 500 contributors, all experts in their fields. The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in studying environmental management is presented here in six stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental systems. Features of the new edition: The first handbook that demonstrates the key processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management. Addresses new and cutting -edge topics on ecosystem services, resilience, sustainability, food-energy-water nexus, socio-ecological systems and more. Provides an excellent basic knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems function and offers strategies on how to best manage them. Includes the most important problems and solutions facing environmental management today.

Author : Robert H. Armon,Osmo Hänninen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401794992

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Environmental Indicators by Robert H. Armon,Osmo Hänninen Pdf

Environmental indicators are the first line of warning against hazards caused by humans or nature catastrophes to prevent diseases and death of living organisms. The present book covers a large variety of environmental indicators from physical-chemistry through economical, bioinformatics, electromagnetic irradiation and health aspects, all dealing with environmental pollution. This volume has been intended to environmentalists, engineers, scientists and policy makers as well to anybody interested in the latest development in the indicator field.

Author : David A. Mouat,Charles F. Hutchinson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400916357

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Desertification in Developed Countries by David A. Mouat,Charles F. Hutchinson Pdf

Desertification has re-emerged as a topic of global significance as a consequence of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. When first addressed over a generation ago, attention was drawn to the compelling, spectacular images of sand dunes engulfing farmlands and parched cattle dying around wells. Research tended to focus on these events as unusual phenomena that involved the unfortunate collision of climate and `irrational' land use. Since then, the work of many researchers has shown us that desertification is a multifaceted problem that involves climatic, biogeochemical, political, and socio-economic processes that operate more or less continuously but at rates that vary in time and space. No attempts to arrest or reverse desertification that ignore this complexity are likely to succeed. In a single volume, `Desertification in Developed Countries' describes the multiple dimensions of desertification as well as the novel approaches that have been used to address it within the economies of developed countries. This is done from the perspectives and experiences of the numerous authors who have contributed to this book.

Author : Roy H. Behnke,Michael Mortimore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642160141

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The End of Desertification? by Roy H. Behnke,Michael Mortimore Pdf

The question in the title of this book draws attention to the shortcomings of a concept that has become a political tool of global importance even as the scientific basis for its use grows weaker. The concept of desertification, it can be argued, has ceased to be analytically useful and distorts our understanding of social-environmental systems and their resiliency, particularly in poor countries with variable rainfall and persistent poverty. For better policy and governance, we need to reconsider the scientific justification for international attempts to combat desertification. Our exploration of these issues begins in the Sahel of West Africa, where a series of severe droughts at the end of the 20th century led to the global institutionalization of the idea of desertification. It now seems incontrovertible that these droughts were not caused primarily by local land use mismanagement, effectively terminating a long-standing policy and scientific debate. There is now an opportunity to treat this episode as an object lesson in the relationship between science, the formation of public opinion and international policy-making. Looking beyond the Sahel, the chapters in this book provide case studies from around the world that examine the use and relevance of the desertification concept. Despite an increasingly sophisticated understanding of dryland environments and societies, the uses now being made of the desertification concept in parts of Asia exhibit many of the shortcomings of earlier work done in Africa. It took scientists more than three decades to transform a perceived desertification crisis in the Sahel into a non-event. This book is an effort to critically examine that experience and accelerate the learning process in other parts of the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Geology
ISBN : WISC:89062796784

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Geological Survey Circular by Anonim Pdf

Author : T.S. Chouhan
Publisher : Scientific Publishers
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789388043090

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Combating Desertification Land Degradation and Climate Change: Management of Dry Lands by T.S. Chouhan Pdf

Although much is known about the processes and effects of desertification, land degradation and climate change, little is understood about the links between them. Less still is known about how these processes are likely to interact in different social-ecological systems around the world, or how societies might be able to adapt to this twin challenge. This book identifies key vulnerabilities to the combined effects of climate change and land degradation around the world. It identifies triple-win adaptations that can tackle both climate change and land degradation, whilst supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services. Desertification, Land Degradation and Climate Change : Assessment, Mitigation and Remediation research results in sustainable land management, land degradation status and mitigation in the world. It includes background chapters with continental and international perspectives dealing with desertification, land degradation and climate change studies. The book assembles various topics of interest for a large audience. They include carbon sequestration and stocks, modern techniques to trace the trends of land degradation, traditional and modern approaches of resource-base conservation, soil fertility management, reforestation, rangeland rehabilitation, land use planning, GIS techniques in desertification risk cartography, participatory ecosystem management, policy analyses and possible plans for action. Various climatic domains in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas are covered. The book will be of interest to a variety of environmental scientists, agronomists, national and international policy makers and a number of organizations dealing with sustainable management of natural resources.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015037719799

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U.S. Geological Survey Circular by Anonim Pdf