The Future Of Drylands

Author : Cathy Lee,Thomas Schaaf
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402069697

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The Future of Drylands by Cathy Lee,Thomas Schaaf Pdf

Drylands have been cradles to some of the world’s greatest civilizations, and contemporary dryland communities feature rich and unique cultures. Dryland ecosystems support a surprising amount of biodiversity. Desertification, however, is a significant land degradation problem in the arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid regions of the world. Deterioration of soil and plant cover has adversely affected 70% of the world’s drylands as a result of extended droughts as well as mismanagement of range and cultivated lands. The situation is likely to worsen with high population growth rates and accompanying land-use conflicts. The contributions to The Future of Drylands – an international scientific conference held under the leadership of UNESCO – address these issues and offer practical solutions for combating desertification along with conserving and sustainably managing dryland ecosystems. Major themes include the conservation of dryland biological and cultural diversity and the human dryland interface. This volume documents how our improved understanding of drylands provides insight into the health and future prospects of these precious ecosystems that should help ensure that dryland communities enjoy a sustainable future.

Author : Simone Lucatello,Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald,Ileana Espejel,Natalia Martínez-Tagüeña
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030224646

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Stewardship of Future Drylands and Climate Change in the Global South by Simone Lucatello,Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald,Ileana Espejel,Natalia Martínez-Tagüeña Pdf

This volume integrates a conceptual framework with participatory methodologies to understand the complexities of dryland socio-ecological systems, and to address challenges and opportunities for stewardship of future drylands and climate change in the global south. Through several case studies, the book offers a transdisciplinary and participatory approach to understand the complexity of socio-ecological systems, to co-produce accurate resource management plans for sustained stewardship, and to drive social learning and polycentric governance. This systemic framework permits the study of human-nature interrelationships through time and in particular contexts, with a focus on achieving progress in accordance with the 2030 United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development. The book is divided into four main sections: 1) drylands and socio-ecological systems, 2) transdisciplinarity in drylands, 3) interculturality in drylands, and 4) the governance of drylands. Expert contributors address topics such as pastoralism and the characteristics of successful agricultural lands, the sustainable development goals and drylands, dryland modernization, and arid land governance with a focus on Mexico. The volume will be of interest to dryland researchers, sustainable development practitioners and policymakers.

Author : Charles F. Hutchinson,Stefanie M. Herrmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402066894

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The Future of Arid Lands-Revisited by Charles F. Hutchinson,Stefanie M. Herrmann Pdf

The Future of Arid Lands, edited by Gilbert White and published in 1956, comprised papers delivered at the "International Arid Lands Meetings" held in New Mexico in 1955. At these meetings, experts considered the major issues then confronting the world’s arid lands and developed a research agenda to address these issues. This book reexamines this earlier work and explores changes in the science and management of arid lands over the past 50 years within their historical contexts.

Author : Michael Mortimore
Publisher : World Conservation Union
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215362398

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Dryland Opportunities by Michael Mortimore Pdf

Drylands cover 41 percent of the earth' s terrestrial surface. The urgency of and international response to climate change have given a new place to drylands in terms both of their vulnerability to predicted climate change impacts and their potential contribution to climate change mitigation. This book aims to apply the new scientific insights on complex dryland systems to practical options for development. A new dryland paradigm is built on the resources and capacities of dryland peoples, on new and emergent economic opportunities, on inward investment, and on the best support that dryland science can offer.

Author : Jeremy Lind,Doris Okenwa,Ian Scoones
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847012524

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Land, Investment & Politics by Jeremy Lind,Doris Okenwa,Ian Scoones Pdf

Examines the new challenges facing Africa's pastoral drylands from large-scale investments and how this might affect the economic and political landscape for the regions affected and their peoples.

Author : Mahesh K. Gaur,Victor R. Squires
Publisher : Springer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319566818

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Climate Variability Impacts on Land Use and Livelihoods in Drylands by Mahesh K. Gaur,Victor R. Squires Pdf

This edited volume is devoted to the examination of the implications of the inevitable changes wrought by global change on the welfare and livelihoods of tens of millions of people who live in dryland regions. Global change is more than just climate change and the ramifications of changing trade patterns (geopolitical and economic aspects), the shift to the market economy, demographic factors (population growth, urbanization and re-settlement), receive attention here. Land use change specialists, policy makers and natural resource management agencies will find the book very useful. Chapters focus on examples that are drawn from a number of sources including previously unpublished studies on the impact of climate change, markets and economics on pastoralist and dryland farming households. The key focus is to provide readers with insights into the real world implications of change (including an analysis of the drivers of change) on these vulnerable groups within dryland societies. The role of humans as agents of these changes is canvassed. A regional analysis of the world's drylands is also performed including those in Australia, Argentina, India, North America, China, North Africa, Central Asia and Southern Africa.

Author : Angela Kronenburg García,Tobias Haller,Han van Dijk,Cyrus Samimi,Jeroen Warner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000802566

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Drylands Facing Change by Angela Kronenburg García,Tobias Haller,Han van Dijk,Cyrus Samimi,Jeroen Warner Pdf

This edited volume examines the changes that arise from the entanglement of global interests and narratives with the local struggles that have always existed in the drylands of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia/Inner Asia. Changes in drylands are happening in an overwhelming manner. Climate change, growing political instability, and increasing enclosures of large expanses of often common land are some of the changes with far-reaching consequences for those who make their living in the drylands. At the same time, powerful narratives about the drylands as ‘wastelands’ and their ‘backward’ inhabitants continue to hold sway, legitimizing interventions for development, security, and conservation, informing re-emerging frontiers of investment (for agriculture, extraction, infrastructure), and shaping new dryland identities. The chapters in this volume discuss the politics of change triggered by forces as diverse as the global land and resource rush, the expansion of new Information and Communication Technologies, urbanization, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the spread of violent extremism. While recognizing that changes are co-produced by differently positioned actors from within and outside the drylands, this volume presents the dryland’s point of view. It therefore takes the views, experiences, and agencies of dryland dwellers as the point of departure to not only understand the changes that are transforming their lives, livelihoods, and future aspirations, but also to highlight the unexpected spaces of contestation and innovation that have hitherto remained understudied. This edited volume will be of much interest to students, researchers, and scholars of natural resource management, land and resource grabbing, political ecology, sustainable development, and drylands in general. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : A.J. Dietz,R. Ruben,A. Verhagen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402021589

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The Impact of Climate Change on Drylands by A.J. Dietz,R. Ruben,A. Verhagen Pdf

Sahelian West Africa has recovered from the disastrous droughts of the 1970s and 1980s. People have learned to adapt to risk and uncertainty in fragile dryland environments. They, as well as global change scientists, are worried about the impact of climate change on these West African drylands. What do the experiences of the last thirty years say about the preparedness for higher temperatures, lower rainfall, and even more variability? Detailed studies on Dryland West Africa as a whole, and on Burkina Faso, Mali and Northern Ghana in particular show an advanced coping behaviour and increased adaptation, but also major differences in vulnerability and coping potential. Climate change preparedness programmes have only just started and require more robust support, and more specific social targeting, for a population which is rapidly growing, even more rapidly urbanising, and further integrating in a globalised economy. This book is the first of its kind with a comprehensive analysis of climate change experiences in West African drylands, with attention for pathways of change and the diversity of adaptation options available. This book is of interest to scientists studying global and climate change, especially dealing with issues of adaptation. Social scientists, economists, geographers and policy makers concerned with West Africa should also read this book.

Author : Kathryn Elizabeth Fitzsimmons,Zhuolun Li,Zhiwei Xu
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889769162

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Environmental Change in Drylands: Past, Present, Future by Kathryn Elizabeth Fitzsimmons,Zhuolun Li,Zhiwei Xu Pdf

Author : Anandkumar Naorem,Deepesh Machiwal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811991592

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Enhancing Resilience of Dryland Agriculture Under Changing Climate by Anandkumar Naorem,Deepesh Machiwal Pdf

This contributed volume describes management practices based on interdisciplinary and convergence science approaches from different disciplines of agricultural science to enhance the resilience of dryland agriculture. The main focus of this book is to address the current issues and trends along with future prospects and challenges in adopting salient agricultural management practices in drylands globally under a climate-change scenario. Climate change and global warming have profound repercussions on increasing frequency, severity, and duration of droughts and/or floods, which may have implications for future productivity of dryland agriculture, e.g., more water shortages or abundances and high or low runoff rates, diminished crop yields, and reduced water productivity. In past few years, many technological advancements and management strategies have been evolved to tackle the climate-induced risks of dryland agriculture considering interdisciplinary and convergence approaches that integrate knowledge from multi-disciplines. This book is an attempt to bridge the gap in literature by unraveling controversies and characteristics of dryland ecosystems under the changing climate and dealing with detailed procedures of applying the advanced practices adapted to climate change for management of dryland agriculture. This edited book is of interest to ecologists, economists, environmentalists, geologists, horticulturalists, hydrologists, soil scientists, social scientists, natural resource conservationists and policy makers dealing with dryland agriculture. This book offers a broad understanding of dryland agriculture and assists the reader to identify both the current as well as the probable future state of dryland agriculture in a global context.

Author : Garik Gutman,Jiquan Chen,Geoffrey M. Henebry,Martin Kappas
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030307424

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Landscape Dynamics of Drylands across Greater Central Asia: People, Societies and Ecosystems by Garik Gutman,Jiquan Chen,Geoffrey M. Henebry,Martin Kappas Pdf

This volume is a compilation of studies on interactions of changes in land cover, land use and climate with people, societies and ecosystems in drylands of Greater Central Asia. It explores the effects of collapse of socialist governance and management systems on land use in various parts of Central Asia, including former Soviet Union republics, Mongolia and northern drylands of China. Often, regional land-atmosphere feedbacks may have large global importance. Remote sensing is a primary tool in studying vast dryland territories where in situ observations are sporadic. State-of-the-art methods of satellite remote sensing combined with GIS and models are used to tackle science questions and provide an outlook of current changes at land surface and potential scenarios for the future. In 10 chapters, contributing authors cover topics such as water resources, effects of institutional changes on urban centers and agriculture, landscape dynamics, and the primary drivers of environmental changes in dryland environment. Satellite observations that have accumulated during the last five decades provide a rich time series of the dynamic land surface, enabling systematic analysis of changes in land cover and land use from space. The book is a truly international effort by a team of scientists from the U.S., Europe and Central Asia. It is directed at the broad science community including graduate students, academics and other professionals at all levels within natural and social sciences. In particular, it will appeal to geographers, environmental and social scientists, economists, agricultural scientists, and remote sensing specialists.

Author : Gilbert F. White
Publisher : paris : unesco
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Arid regions
ISBN : MINN:31951000045178N

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Science and the Future of Arid Lands by Gilbert F. White Pdf

Author : S.C. Rao
Publisher : Scientific Publishers
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789387991095

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Challenges and Strategies of Dryland Agriculture by S.C. Rao Pdf

The world has made remarkable progress in maintaining adequate food supplies during the past quarter century by introducing yield-increasing technologies such as better genetics, crop protection products, and more efficient use of fertilizers and irrigations. Far more people depend on irrigation in the modern world than during the times of ancient Sumeria. The spread of irrigation has been the key factor in increasing global crop yields. But future scarcity present the single biggest threat to future food production. The shift of water from agriculture to the growing cities and industry almost certainly will impact global food production. This means that dryland agriculture will be increasingly important in meeting food requirement for the growing population. Advaces in plant genetics and agronomic conservation technologies, when considered in concert, continue to provide the greatest opportunities to achieve sustainability and profitability in dryland agriculture and will continue to be the focus of the ARS research program. The ARS is please to join the crop Science Society of America and international center for Agriculture Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) in sponsoring a symposium “Challenges and strategies for Dryland Agriculture” at the Trisocieties Annual Meeting in November 2002 at Indianapolis, IN. This special publication contains an impressive series of paper by international group of experts on dryland agricultural production, conservation, and policy. The principles, philosophies, and technologies presented in this publication have the potential to contribute to improve food security and livelihoods for the people in dryland regions of the world.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251319994

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Trees, forests and land use in drylands: the first global assessment by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Drylands cover 41 percent of the Earth's land surface. This publication presents the results of the first global assessment of trees, forests and land use in these lands. The assessment breaks new methodological ground: it relies on the visual interpreation of freely available satellite images, carried out by more than 200 experts in a series of regional workshops. Using a tool called Open Foris ollect Earth, developed by FAO in collaboration with Google, participants gathered and analysed information for mrore than 200 000 sample plots worldwide. For each region, the report summarizes the distribution of forests, other wooded land and other land uses including grasslands, croplands, built-up areas and barren land, across all drylands and by aridity zone. It also estimates tree canopy cover, shrub cover, forest type and presence of trees outside forest. Indicatng that the global drylands contain more than one-quarter of the world's forest area, and that trees are present on 31 percent of the world's dryland area, the report provides a baseline for future monitoring and will support countries in their efforts to identify appropriate investments for the restoration and sustainable management of drylands.

Author : Daniel Stiles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995-06-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012366808

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Social Aspects of Sustainable Dryland Management by Daniel Stiles Pdf

With dryland areas accommodating approximately one billion people in over a hundred countries, there is obviously a problem of increased stress being placed on the natural resources of these areas, which ultimately contributes to overall land degradation. Coupled with this, many developing countries, particularly in Africa, are showing a fall in agricultural production per capita, with people migrating away from dryland areas; such relocation to marginal lands and forests or to already over-populated cities further enhances global land degradation. With this in mind, Social Aspects of Sustainable Dryland Management attempts to address the overall problem of land degradation and provides ways in which dryland productivity and viability can be increased and managed for future years. The volume bases its results on case studies and field research projects, and encourages a greater involvement of the local population in developing methods of management of their own natural resources. This volume therefore embodies a concept of development far beyond conventional methods. It aims to show that land management must develop around the priorities, needs and objectives of the people concerned and emphasises the need to involve local people in solving the problems of resource degradation, so that future research and modern technologies can be developed with their participation. Above all, it seeks to recognise the value of indigenous knowledge in sustainable development, so that such knowledge systems can become the starting point from which to plan management strategies and new technological adaptations.