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The Threatening Desert: Controlling Desertification (Earthscan Library Collection: Natural Resource Management Set) by Alan Grainger, 2009-10
Land Degradation and Desertification
Atlas of Mediterranean Desertification
World Atlas of Desertification (Hodder Arnold Publication)
Desertification in Third Millennium
Desertification (An Earthscan paperback) by Allen Grainger, 1982-06
Desertification in extremely arid environments (Stuttgarter geographische Studien)
Deforestation, drought, and desertification: Perceptions on a growing ecological crisis (Studies in ecology and sustainable development)
Land, Man, and Sand: Desertification and Its Solution by James Walls, 1980-01
Towards control of desertification in African drylands: Problems, experiences, guidelines (Sonderpublikation der GTZ) by Johannes; Adelhelm, Reinhard Kotschi, 1986
Desertification: Associated Case Studies Presented at the United Nations Conference on Desertification, 29 August to 9 September 1977, Nairobi, Kenya (Environmental Sciences and Applications, V. 12) by Kenya) United Nations Conference on Desertification (1977 Nairobi, Asit K. Biswas, et all 1977-10
Desertification Control in the Arid Ecosystems of India for Sustainable Development
Case Studies on Desertification. Ed by J.A. Mabbutt (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Natural Resources Resea) by Unesco, 1981-09
Mediterranean Desertification: A Mosaic of Processes and Responses

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Afrol News - Northern Africa In Need Of Reforestation
On the occasion of the World Day to Combat desertification yesterday, In Tunisia alone the costs of desertification have been evaluated at US$ 100
http://www.afrol.com/articles/12828

Extractions: Northern Africa in need of reforestation afrol News , 18 June Algeria and Tunisia are facing heavy costs due to deforestation and erosion, new studies demonstrate. While the Mediterranean area at large is facing desertification, North Africa was already seeing some of the great expenses of this trend. - Ill-conceived land use policies and unregulated management practices in the Mediterranean have resulted in over-exploitation of forest resources, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). "This has led to acute environmental damage, biodiversity loss, and desertification, thus endangering the livelihoods of millions of people." On the occasion of the World Day to Combat Desertification yesterday, the two environmental groups WWF and IUCN had asked Mediterranean national governments to "combat desertification on the ground by restoring forest landscapes and the full range of environmental and socio-economic benefits they provide." In Tunisia alone the costs of desertification have been evaluated at US$ 100 million a year. Tunisia loses 8000 ha of land every year to desertification and Algeria loses 40,000 ha. About 66 percent of rural Mediterranean has a moderate to high risk of soil degradation, according to WWF estimations.
Desertification - Hutchinson Encyclopedia Article About Desertification
Hutchinson encyclopedia article about desertification. desertification. Information about desertification in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. what is
http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/desertification

Extractions: encyclopedia Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus Wikipedia 0.01 sec. write_ads(AdsNum, 0) Palm and tamarisk trees are planted inside a barrier in an attempt to stabilize the encroaching sand dunes on a palm plantation in southern Morocco and so slow the process of desertification. Natural causes of desertification include decreased rainfall, increased temperatures, lowering of the water table , and soil erosion Sahel region in Africa is one example. hut(2) With respect to environmental protection, Toyota engages in afforestation programs to combat desertification and has established the Toyota Environmental Protection Aid Program for China's Youth; in the traffic safety area, Toyota conducts Toyota Driver Communication hands-on safe-driving courses in cooperation with the Chinese Ministry of Public Security.
Desertification - Definition From The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Definition of desertification from the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/desertification
Facts And Figures: Desertification And Drought: International Year Of Freshwater
The World Day to Combat desertification and Drought, celebrated every year the 17th of June, marks the anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations
http://www.wateryear2003.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=5137&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=2

Extractions: The World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, celebrated every year the 17th of June, marks the anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification ( UNCCD ), in 1992, based on a recommendation of the Rio Earth Summit. The UNCCD defines desertification as the degradation of land in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas. Desertification occurs in arid, semi-arid and sub-humid areas - where the soils are especially fragile, vegetation is sparse and the climate particularly unforgiving. These areas are inhabited by one fifth of the worlds population.
National Geographic: Eye In The Sky--Deforestation
Shows photographs, satellite images, and video clips of deforestation and desertification.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/eye/deforestation/deforestationintro.html
GRASSROOTS INDICATORS FOR DESERTIFICATION Experience And Perspectives From Easte
This is the central focus of Grassroots Indicators for desertification. The book documents why grassroots indicators should play a key role in the
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-9320-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

Extractions: "Knowledge is power" has become a common but true cliché in development research. And, as two sides of the same coin, "knowledge sharing" and "power sharing" lie at the root of many development problems, including drought and desertification. But what of grassroots knowledge? Measures or signals of environmental quality or change recorded by individuals, households, and communities are derived from local systems of observation, practice, and indigenous knowledge. They are grassroots indicators and, used effectively, may lead to the creation of new and more accurate development indicators, as well as improved processes for both planning and monitoring. This is the central focus of Grassroots Indicators for Desertification . The book documents why grassroots indicators should play a key role in the monitoring, evaluation, and reporting systems for sustainable development and, more specifically, in efforts to reverse desertification and other forms of land degradation. It also shows how their use would encourage local control of the generation and use of knowledge.
August 5, 2003: China Losing War With Advancing Deserts
An Asian Development Bank assessment of desertification in Gansu Province reports Arresting desertification may depend more on grass than treeson both
http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update26.htm

Extractions: China is now at war. It is not invading armies that are claiming its territory, but expanding deserts. Old deserts are advancing and new ones are forming, like guerrilla forces striking unexpectedly, forcing Beijing to fight on several fronts. And worse, the growing deserts are gaining momentum, occupying an ever-larger piece of China's territory each year. Desert expansion has accelerated with each successive decade since 1950. China's Environmental Protection Agency reports that the Gobi Desert expanded by 52,400 square kilometers (20,240 square miles) from 1994 to 1999, an area half the size of Pennsylvania. With the advancing Gobi now within 150 miles of Beijing, China's leaders are beginning to sense the gravity of the situation. Overplowing and overgrazing are converging to create a dust bowl of historic dimensions. With little vegetation remaining in parts of northern and western China, the strong winds of late winter and early spring can remove literally millions of tons of topsoil in a single day soil that can take centuries to replace.
Reuters AlertNet - Global Plan Tackles Neglected Issue Of Desertification
China, which is plagued by sandstorms every spring, has embarked on a campaign to plant billions of trees and says it s slowing the rate of desertification,
http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/40453/2007/08/27-130219-1.htm

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Restoring Soil Carbon Can Reverse Global Warming, Desertification And Biodiversi
Restoring the ability of soil to store carbon by promoting native grasses and vegetation can help reverse global warming, desertification and biodiversity
http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0221-soil_carbon_lovell_interview.html

Extractions: LEFT: This river in Zimbabwe used to flow year-round. Then overgrazing by wandering livestock bared much of the soil in the surrounding area. Today the river flows only as flash floods following heavy rains. Biodiversity loss is severe, livestock are starving, and most wildlife has disappeared. RIGHT: This nearby river had similar problems. It now has water year-round, and flows during most of the year. Drought is rare, biodiversity is increasing, and wildlife has reappeared in large numbers. Soil Carbon P/L notes that capturing just 1 mm more rain per year means: 1 liter more usable water per square meter; 10,000 liters more water per hectare; 1,000,000 liters more water per square kilometer; Less drought, because more water stays in the soil to recharge rivers, springs, and wells; and more forage, because plants can also use that water.
Agriculture & Rural Development - Desertification
Drylands cover more than 40% of the world s surface but are increasingly being affected by desertification. desertification is land degradation in arid,
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTARD/0,,contentMDK:20452543~pa

Extractions: var templatePathPrefix = "http://siteresources.worldbank.org/"; Drylands cover more than 40% of the world's surface but are increasingly being affected by desertification. Desertification is land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting from climatic variations and human activities. It occurs because drylands are extremely vulnerable to over-exploitation and inappropriate land use (for example, deforestation, overgrazing, bad irrigation practices...) Desertification can lead to increased poverty, loss of land productivity, loss of biodiversity, internal and/or cross-border migrations of people, etc. More than 250 million people are directly affected by desertification. A further 1.1 billion people in more than 100 countries, many of which are World Bank development partners, are at risk from desertification. Data show that areas affected by desertification also tend to have the poorest, most marginalized and politically weak citizens. In response, the international community negotiated the Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD), which was ratified in 1996. As of March 2002, 179 Country Parties have signed the Convention. The CCD's framework focuses on human survival and conservation of natural resources and emphasizes multi-stakeholder commitment, participation, interdisciplinarity, and partnerships.
Desertification | CitizenPowered.org
desertification, the degradation of arable land into unarable desert, is an under recognized international crisis. Chief causes are deforestation,
http://www.citizenpowered.org/content/desertification

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The Creeping Desert / IPS Inter Press Service
MADRID Legislatures have been taken to task over their track record in addressing desertification, this at the eighth session of the Conference of the
http://ipsnews.net/new_focus/desert/index.asp

Extractions: Homepage Latest News Search Languages ... About Us Friday, April 04, 2008 03:02 GMT - Global Affairs - Africa - Asia-Pacific Afghanistan ... - Email News What is RSS? ENGLISH ARABIC DEUTSCH ITALIANO ... Text Only D esertification could force some 60 million to migrate from sub-Saharan Africa to Northern Africa and Europe by 2020. More than 250 million people worldwide directly suffer the effects of desertification, and another 1.2 billion in 110 countries are threatened by this degradation of otherwise arable and habitable land caused by climate change and by unsustainable land-use practices like overgrazing, deforestation and burning. IPS offers insights into a phenomenon that is undermining development in Africa and around the world, and which requires the immediate attention of the international community and local peoples alike. AFRICA MUST BE HEARD ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Desertification And Drought :: United Nations System-Wide EARTHWATCH
This publication was initiated and compiled by the secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat desertification (UNCCD) as part of a Global
http://earthwatch.unep.net/desertification/index.php

Extractions: The GEF in partnership with FAO, UNEP, Global Mechanism of the UNCCD and other partners, has provided resources to catalyse an international undertaking in supporting a Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (LADA) project to develop and test an effective assessment methodology for land degradation in drylands. Prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as task manager for chapters 10 and 14, and the United Nations Environment Programme as task manager for chapter 12, of Agenda 21, with contributions from other United Nations agencies and international organizations and major groups. UNCCD Implementing the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Africa :Ten African Experiences
The Future Is Green: Word Desertification Day
Every June 17 is recognized as World Day to Combat desertification by the United Nations. This year the day s theme was the linkages between climate change
http://greenfuture.blogspot.com/2007/06/word-desertification-day.html

Extractions: @import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=5744235"); Thoughts on the coming of a society that is in balance with nature and the magnitude of the problems in the way; facing the reality that the present world's population has moved beyond the earth's carrying capacity, the looming peak in world oil production, green alternatives, and the least painful paths to a sustainable society. Every June 17 is recognized as World Day to Combat Desertification by the United Nations. This year the day's theme was the linkages between climate change and desertification. China, one of the world's worst hit countries , has seen thousands of Chinese villages disappear before its expanding deserts. The problem has been made worse by the legacy of Mao's Great Leap Forward, which sought to make China a self sufficient food producer by bringing marginal lands under cultivation. However, overuse of the land and
Desertification: Monitoring & Forecasting
Text and video reports about remote monitoring in the arid southwest region of United States. General details about desertification, forecasting,
http://www.evsc.virginia.edu/desert/
Deforestation, Desertification, And The Drought In West Africa
Zheng and Eltahir (1997) studied the response of the monsoon system to deforestation and desertification using a simple model. The results suggest that the
http://web.mit.edu/eltahir/www/deforestation.html

Extractions: regionally averaged standardized departures, Nicholson (1993) Eltahir and Gong (1996) proposed a general framework for describing the role of biosphere-atmosphere-ocean interactions. It emphasizes the role of the gradient in boundary layer moist static energy (entropy) between ocean and land in modulating the dynamics of the monsoon.
Teaching Activities
Desert dwellers (MP/UP) Students will compare flora, fauna, people and ways of life in deserts in different parts of the world; desertification (UP/LS)
http://www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/globaled/go/cache/offonce/pid/2004;jsessi
Circle Of Blue: Reign Of Sand
United Nations Convention to Combat desertification World Bank Study, Cost of Pollution in desertification and Environmental Health Trends in China
http://www.circleofblue.org/reign/

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Desertification Information System
To improve the capacity of national administrations of Mediterranean countries to effectively program measures and policies to combat desertification and
http://dismed.eionet.europa.eu/

Extractions: Desertification Information System to support National Action Programmes in the Mediterranean (DIS/MED) To improve the capacity of national administrations of Mediterranean countries to effectively program measures and policies to combat desertification and the effects of drought. The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) The UNCCD assigns particular relevance to the identification of criteria for the formulation and implementation of the National Action Programmes A n inter-regional workshop on the Desertification Information Systems for planning needs in the Mediterranean area was held in November 1998 in Marrakech, Morocco, jointly sponsored by the UNCCD Secretariat, the Authorities of Morocco and Italy. It convened representatives of Northern Mediterranean and of Northern Africa countries, as well as international and sub-regional organizations. The participants to the Marrakech workshop recommended to the Northern Mediterranean and the Northern African countries to explore the possibility of establishing an operational information system for planning purposes, to potentially service all Mediterranean partners, taking into account the existing local capacities and facilities. They also urged countries to establish a close collaboration for the harmonisation of the methodologies of exchange of information related to all aspects of land degradation. Tackling the problem of land degradation in the Mediterranean is a complex task due to the co-existence of various causes at different levels. In particular, the interlacing of institutional and technical causes entails to address both aspects at the same time.
Rural Poverty And Desertification
Every year 12 million ha of land are lost to desertification, and the rate is increasing. desertification is a major environmental problem that is advancing
http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/english/topics/desertification/index.htm

Extractions: Powered by IFAD updated: 14 September, 2007 About the portal contact us sitemap Rural poverty and desertification When fragile land in arid regions is overexploited by the demands of an expanding population, it loses its productive capacity. The results are devastating. Land degradation affects more than 1 billion people and 40 per cent of the earthâs surface. In the severest cases the land becomes infertile and useless, precipitating famine and drought. Every year 12 million ha of land are lost to desertification, and the rate is increasing. Desertification is a major environmental problem that is advancing at an alarming pace. Arid and semi-arid areas cover roughly one third of the earthâs surface. These dryland regions, which may or may not border on deserts, receive little or no rainfall. Their ecosystems are fragile and are easily stressed beyond their already limited capacity. In the past such regions were home to small groups of herders and small-scale farmers. The land was grazed intermittently and was left to lie fallow at intervals. Now dryland areas are increasingly subject to the pressures of a growing human population. The causes of desertification are many and complex, but it is essentially inappropriate and excessive human activity that initiates the process. Competition for land and limited resources lead to unsustainable land management practices. In some cases migration as a result of conflict puts undue pressure on fragile areas. In other cases it is mining that causes the initial damage.

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