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09/28/2003 Archived Entry: "Desertification is a very serious problem!"
Desertification is a very serious problem! with all the politics and war-peace-war-terrorism-peace-war talk clogging the blogs ... we're missing the desert takeover ... World Atlas of Desertification is recording the problem.
Desertification Information and References
World Atlas of Desertification by Nick Middleton, David Thomas, and the United Nations Environment Program ---
The Atlas clearly shows that desertification is one of the world's most pressing environmental problems, and that it is a truly global issue. .... Since the publication of the first edition in 1992, over 100 countries have ratified the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. This 2nd edition reflects major advances in our understanding of desertification over the past few years and has been thoroughly revised and expanded to almost twice its original size. Because combating desertification involves all aspects of environmental issues, this edition covers a broader range of topics, including concerns surrounding poverty, biodiversity, climate change and the availability of water. Social and economic conditions also have a major impact on the progress and control of desertification and this edition contains the latest information on population movements which result from, and lead to desertification. ... Desertification directly affects the livelihoods of more than one billion people who are directly dependent on the land for their survival. Using the latest updated digitised maps of desertification and fully referenced throughout, this Atlas is essential reading for everyone concerned with the drylands and their people.
Land, Man, and Sand: Desertification and Its Solution by James. Walls
The Spread of Deserts (Conserving Our World) by Ewan McLeish
Expanding Deserts (Environment Alert!) by Paula Hogan
The Last Ranch: A Colorado Community and the Coming Desert by Sam Bingham
Desertified Grasslands: Their Biology and Management (Linnean Society Symposium, No 13) by G. P. Chapman
Roots in the African Dust : Sustaining the Sub-Saharan Drylands by Michael Mortimore
Geology of Anza-Borrego: Edge of Creation (California Desert Natural History Field Guides, No 1) by Paul Remeika
The Gardens of Their Dreams: Desertification and Culture in World History by Brian Griffith
Mediterranean Desertification : A Mosaic of Processes and Responses by N. A. Geeson
Deserts on the March (Conservation Classics) by Paul Bigelow Sears
Environmental Degradation and Desertification in Ghana: A Study of the Upper West Region (Avebury Studies in Green Research) by Kwasi Nsiah-Gyabaah
The Gardens of Their Dreams: Desertification and Culture in World History by Brian Griffith
The Poverty of Nations: The Aid Dilemma at the Heart of Africa by James Morton
Deserts and Arid Lands by Faourk El-Baz
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