Editors:
- Provides a state-of-knowledge on the management of dryland ecosystems
- Provides a global coverage of the issues dealing with desertification
- Includes contributions and case studies from all dryland continents
- Future-oriented providing forward looking policy recommendations for dryland research and sustainable management of dryland resources
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Table of contents (68 papers)
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Front Matter
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Opening Session
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Conservation of Biodiversity, Cultural and Natural Heritage in Drylands
About this book
Drylands have been cradles to some of the world’s greatest civilizations, and contemporary dryland communities feature rich and unique cultures. Dryland ecosystems support a surprising amount of biodiversity. Desertification, however, is a significant land degradation problem in the arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid regions of the world. Deterioration of soil and plant cover has adversely affected 70% of the world’s drylands as a result of extended droughts as well as mismanagement of range and cultivated lands. The situation is likely to worsen with high population growth rates and accompanying land-use conflicts.
The contributions to The Future of Drylands – an international scientific conference held under the leadership of UNESCO – address these issues and offer practical solutions for combating desertification along with conserving and sustainably managing dryland ecosystems. Major themes include the conservation of dryland biological and cultural diversity and the human dryland interface. This volume documents how our improved understanding of drylands provides insight into the health and future prospects of these precious ecosystems that should help ensure that dryland communities enjoy a sustainable future.
Editors and Affiliations
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Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB), UNESCO, Paris Cedex 15, France
Cathy Lee
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Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences, UNESCO, Paris Cedex 15, France
Thomas Schaaf
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Future of Drylands
Book Subtitle: International Scientific Conference on Desertification and Drylands Research, Tunis, Tunisia, 19-21 June 2006
Editors: Cathy Lee, Thomas Schaaf
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6970-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6969-7Published: 29 October 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6971-0Due: 07 November 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6970-3Published: 14 November 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 804
Additional Information: Jointly published with UNESCO, Paris, France
Topics: Environmental Management, Physical Geography, Environment, general, Climate Change, Landscape Ecology, Biodiversity