Desertification includes land degradation due to both climatic and anthropogenic causes, where land includes water, soil, and the biosphere. This book...
Desertification offers a comprehensive overview of the subject and clearly emphasizes the link between local and global desertification processes and...
W niniejszym artykule przedstawiono zagrożenia dla bezpieczeństwa ekologicznego. Cel postawiony przez autora realizowany jest poprzez analizę...
Conventional wisdom considers deserts stark, harsh regions that support few living things. Most people also believe that water alone makes the desert...
Sustainable Development: Constraints and Opportunities contains a selection of the author's speeches made between 1982 and 1986. During this 5-year...
Taking a global perspective, this book provides a concise overview of drylands, including their physical, biological, temporal, and human components....
China has been experiencing extraordinary economic growth for over two decades. Behind the remarkable statistics, however, it is facing a pressing...
Rapid economic growth in the world's most populous nation is leading to widespread soil erosion, desertification, deforestation and the depletion of...
The Earth Transformed answers the need for a concise, non-technical introduction to the ways in which the natural environment has been and is being...