LEADER 05589nam 22007215 450 001 9910739483203321 005 20250603145933.0 010 $a9789400766525 010 $a9400766521 024 7 $a10.1007/978-94-007-6652-5 035 $a(OCoLC)852664398 035 $a(MiFhGG)GVRL6UXI 035 $a(CKB)2670000000403980 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1317699 035 $a(MiFhGG)9789400766525 035 $a(DE-He213)978-94-007-6652-5 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000403980 100 $a20130703d2013 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCombating Desertification in Asia, Africa and the Middle East $eProven practices /$fedited by G. Ali Heshmati, Victor R. Squires 205 $a1st ed. 2013. 210 1$aDordrecht :$cSpringer Netherlands :$cImprint: Springer,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (xxxv, 476 pages) $cillustrations (some color), maps (some color) 225 0 $aGale eBooks 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9789401780926 311 08$a9401780927 311 08$a9789400766518 311 08$a9400766513 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aEditors Preface -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Deserts and Desertified regions in China -- Chapter 2 Controlling Sand Movement through Mechanical Measures: China's Experience -- Chapter 3 Successful Biological methods for combating desertification at degraded areas of China -- Chapter 4 Libya: Reversal of land degradation and desertification through better land management -- Chapter 5 Desertification and its control in Morocco -- Chapter 6 Egypt: Land degradation issues with special reference to the impact of Climate Change -- Chapter7 Combating Desertification in Kenya -- Chapter 8 Lesotho: desertification control program -- Chapter 9 Desert Environments of Republic of Chad -- Chapter 10 Desertification Control in Niger: The medium Term Action Plan 2006-2011 -- Chapter 11 Mongolia: Country Features, the Main Causes of Desertification and Remediation Efforts -- Chapter 12 Arid Land Development and Combating Desertification in Pakistan -- Chapter 13 Uzbekistan: Rehabilitation of Desert Rangelands affected by Salinity, to Improve Food Security, Combat Desertification and maintain the Natural Resource Base -- Chapter 14 Review of efforts to Combat Desertification and arrest and reverse land degradation in Myanmar -- Chapter15 The Philippines Action Plan to Combat Desertification, Land Degradation, Drought and Poverty/a -- Chapter 16 Managing Arid Areas and Sand Dunes in Sri Lanka -- Chapter 17 Indigenous plant species from the drylands of Iran, distribution and potential for habitat maintenance and repair -- Chapter 18 Soil and Water Conservation for Desertification control in Iran -- Chapter 19 Land Degradation in The Sultanate of Oman: Reasons and Interventions Measures -- Chapter 20 Desert Development: how does it relate to anti desertification measures? -- Chapter 21 Replication and scaling up: where to from here? -- Appendix List of the full botanical names of plants with authorities -- Index. 330 $aThis book of 21 chapters is about the ?how? of desertification control as opposed to an analysis of the ?why? and fills a gap in the desertification-related literature in that it shows what to do in situations ranging from fixing mobile sands to arresting  accelerated  soil erosion in sloping lands.  More than 40 years of work by the Chinese in sandy land reclamation has led to the development of effective techniques. There are numerous illustrations (many in color) to show the successful techniques.  This compilation demonstrates that desertification and land degradation can be controlled and reversed with existing techniques in such widely varying environments as the Sahel of Africa to Sri Lanka and the Philippines in SE Asia, from high elevation in Lesotho to low lands on desert margins in Mongolia. Proven approaches include technical interventions, changes in governance and to the legislative framework and policy reform.  The contributors are local experts working in-country and bring to the book insights into many little-known aspects of the technical, ecological, social, cultural and economic factors determine success or failure of desertification control efforts. This book will be of great value to professionals from the donor community (World Bank, Asian Development  Bank, Islamic Development Bank, UN agencies and NGOs) to graduate student students and land managers tasked with responsibility to arrest and reverse desertification and land degradation. . 606 $aLife sciences 606 $aLandscape ecology 606 $aAgriculture 606 $aPhysical geography 606 $aLife Sciences 606 $aLandscape Ecology 606 $aAgriculture 606 $aEarth System Sciences 615 0$aLife sciences. 615 0$aLandscape ecology. 615 0$aAgriculture. 615 0$aPhysical geography. 615 14$aLife Sciences. 615 24$aLandscape Ecology. 615 24$aAgriculture. 615 24$aEarth System Sciences. 676 $a333.736 676 $a551.415 701 $aHeshmati$b G. Ali$01749934 701 $aSquires$b Victor R$01749935 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910739483203321 996 $aCombating desertification in Asia, Africa and the Middle East$94184398 997 $aUNINA