Desertification : Natural Background and Human Mismanagement PDF
by Monique Mainguet
Part of the Springer Series in Physical Environment series
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Controversial, and often discussed with passion and vehemence, desertification is a problem on whose solution the survival of millions of humans is dependent.
This book aims at an understanding of what is commonly called "desertification" - a term which has a connotation of irreversibility, spreading and emergence of desert-like landscapes: "land degradation" is proposed to replace it.
The purpose is to present what has happened in reality, and what might be done.
Illustrative worldwide analyses allow a more realistic evaluation of global land degradation.
Each level of technology, excessive or insufficient, creates its own mismanagement.
This is reflected in a decrease in soil productivity and eventually land degradation.
The benefit to the reader is an awareness of the ecozones which have undergone the most severe land degradation, and a global overview of the phenomena, mechanisms and existing solutions.
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- Publisher:Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Publication Date:06/12/2012
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- Publisher:Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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- ISBN:9783642972539