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MEDITERRANEAN DESERTIFICATION AND LAND USE
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| By: |
C. J. Brandt (Editor), J. B. Thornes (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£399.95 |
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£359.96 |
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£39.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0471942502 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780471942504 |
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| Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
22 October, 1996 |
| Pages: |
572 |
| Description: |
This book describes the findings of the MEDALUS project to explore the international scale of problems caused by desertification and to provide the tools and policies to deal with them. It deals with the physical and anthropological processes of desertification and the methods used to investigate them. |
| Synopsis: |
Desertification is land degradation due to climatic and anthropogenic causes where land includes soil, water and the biological productive capacity. This has become a major environmental, economic and political issue in Mediterranean countries. In order to address the problem in the European countries of the Mediterranean, the European Commission established a number of major research projects under its DGXII Environment and Climate Programme MEDALUS (Mediterranean Desertification and Land Use). This book describes the results from the first phase of the project, dealing with local physical, socio-economic and political controls on desertification. In particular the book concentrates on the models developed, calibrated and validated, the field investigations into biological, hydrological and erosional processes at the seven main sites, and provides an introduction to the problems associated with global warming in the Mediterranean context. GIS and remote sensing are an integral part of the investigation and the results are described and discussed in detail. |
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Illustrations, maps |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
John Wiley & Sons Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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