1. Desertification after the UNCED, Rio 1992

   • Fouad N. Ibrahim

   EditorialNotes Pages: 4 - 4

2. A reassessment of the human dimension of desertification

   • Ibrahim Fouad

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 10

3. Desertification as a Global environmental issue

   • Warren Andrew

   OriginalPaper Pages: 11 - 14

4. Population growth and land degradation

   • Mortimore Michael

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 21

5. Book reviews

   • Helmut Brückner
   • C. R. Twidale
   • Andreas G. Koestler

   BookReview Pages: 21 - 22

6. Desertification in Africa — A critique and an alternative approach

   • Olsson Lennart

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 31

7. Book reviews

   • Lennart Olsson
   • Klaus Müller-Hohenstein
   • Wolf Tietze

   BookReview Pages: 32 - 32

8. Desertification: Reconciling intellectual conceptualization and intervention effort

   • Bakhit A. H.

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 40

9. Desertification in the Butana

   • Akhtar Mariam
   • Mensching Horst Georg

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 50

10. Nomadism and desertification in Africa and the Middle East

    • Johnson Douglas L.

    OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 66

11. Alternative livelihood systems in the Drylands: The need for a new paradigm

    • Méndez Rubén P.

    OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 75

12. Combating Desertification, is it always possible? The case of small Egyptian farmers

    • Kishk Mohammed Atif

    OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 84

13. Women and desertification: The question of responsibility

    • Grawert Elke

    OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 88

14. Desertification and society: A question of territory

    • Faggi Pierpaolo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 94

15. Winds of change and the threat of desertification: Case study from the Tunesian Sahara

    • Sghaier Mongi
    • Seiwert Wolf-Dieter

    OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 99

16. Book reviews

    • Dietrich O. Müller
    • Cesar N. Caviedes

    BookReview Pages: 99 - 100

17. Desertification Control and natural resource management in the aridity zones of the Third World — A development policy assessment

    • Winckler Günter
    • Trux Anneke

    OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 103

18. Remembering the 27th IGU Congress at Washington DC in August 1992

    • Tietze W.

    Reports Pages: 104 - 104

19. Sustainable environmental and resource management futures for Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Uitto Juha I.
    • Manshard Walther

    Reports Pages: 105 - 106

20. IGU Commission Geographical Education

    The International Geographical Union Reports Pages: 107 - 109

21. IGU Commission on Coastal Systems

    The International Geographical Union Reports Pages: 110 - 112