Author: U.S. National Commission for UNESCO.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : International cooperation
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Newsletter
Author: U.S. National Commission for UNESCO.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : International cooperation
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Newsletter
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : International cooperation
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Traditional Arid Lands Agriculture
Author: Scott E. IngramPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816531293
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Traditional Arid Lands Agriculture is the first of its kind. Each chapter considers four questions: what we don’t know about specific aspects of traditional agriculture, why we need to know more, how we can know more, and what research questions can be pursued to know more. What is known is presented to provide context for what is unknown. Traditional agriculture, nonindustrial plant cultivation for human use, is practiced worldwide by millions of smallholder farmers in arid lands. Advancing an understanding of traditional agriculture can improve its practice and contribute to understanding the past. Traditional agriculture has been practiced in the U.S. Southwest and northwest Mexico for at least four thousand years and intensely studied for at least one hundred years. What is not known or well-understood about traditional arid lands agriculture in this region has broad application for research, policy, and agricultural practices in arid lands worldwide. The authors represent the disciplines of archaeology, anthropology, agronomy, art, botany, geomorphology, paleoclimatology, and pedology. This multidisciplinary book will engage students, practitioners, scholars, and any interested in understanding and advancing traditional agriculture.
The Arid Lands
Author: Diana K. DavisPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262034522
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
An argument that the perception of arid lands as wastelands is politically motivated and that these landscapes are variable, biodiverse ecosystems, whose inhabitants must be empowered. Deserts are commonly imagined as barren, defiled, worthless places, wastelands in need of development. This understanding has fueled extensive anti-desertification efforts—a multimillion-dollar global campaign driven by perceptions of a looming crisis. In this book, Diana Davis argues that estimates of desertification have been significantly exaggerated and that deserts and drylands—which constitute about 41% of the earth's landmass—are actually resilient and biodiverse environments in which a great many indigenous people have long lived sustainably. Meanwhile, contemporary arid lands development programs and anti-desertification efforts have met with little success. As Davis explains, these environments are not governed by the equilibrium ecological dynamics that apply in most other regions. Davis shows that our notion of the arid lands as wastelands derives largely from politically motivated Anglo-European colonial assumptions that these regions had been laid waste by “traditional” uses of the land. Unfortunately, such assumptions still frequently inform policy. Drawing on political ecology and environmental history, Davis traces changes in our understanding of deserts, from the benign views of the classical era to Christian associations of the desert with sinful activities to later (neo)colonial assumptions of destruction. She further explains how our thinking about deserts is problematically related to our conceptions of forests and desiccation. Davis concludes that a new understanding of the arid lands as healthy, natural, but variable ecosystems that do not necessarily need improvement or development will facilitate a more sustainable future for the world's magnificent drylands.
Sustainability of Engineered Rivers In Arid Lands
Author: Jurgen SchmandtPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108417035
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Interdisciplinary volume considers how nine arid/semi-arid river basins with irrigated agriculture will survive future climate change, siltation, and decreased flow.
Arid Zone Newsletter
Author: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arid regions
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Aridland Springs in North America
Author: Lawrence E. StevensPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816526451
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A collection of articles on the ecology of North American desert springs, by authors from the fields of biology, botany, ichthyology, conservation, geology and law; and covering both the special traits of springs and the ways in which they might be managed in order to survive.
Newsletter
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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News
Author: U.S. National Commission for UNESCO.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Bulletin de L'Association Internationale de la Science Du Sol
Author: International Society of Soil SciencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soil science
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description