Climate variability impacts on land use and livelihoods in drylands /
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Imprint: | Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018] |
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Description: | 1 online resource (362 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11541627 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Background and Setting
- Chapter 1. Geographic Extent and Characteristics of the World's Drylands and Their Peoples
- Chapter 2. Recent Trends in Drylands and Future Scope for Advancement
- Chapter 3. Global Change and its Consequences for the World's Arid Lands
- Part 2. Arid lands under a global change regime.- Chapter 4. Humans as Change Agents in Drylands (With Special Reference to Qinghai- Tibet Plateau)
- Chapter 5. Climate Variability and Impact on Livelihoods in the Cold Arid Tibet Plateau
- Chapter 6. Iran's Arid Zone Watershed Protection Initiative
- Chapter 7. Thar Desert
- Its Land Management, Livelihoods and Prospects in a Global Warming Scenario
- Part 3. Northern Hemisphere Aridlands: Selected Examples
- Chapter 8. Dry Lands of North America : Current Status and Future Prospects
- Chapter 9. Desertification and Land Degradation in Indian Sub Continent: Issues, Present Status and Future Challenges. Chapter 10. China's Drylands : Problems Prospects
- Chapter 11. Aridlands of North Africa and the Mediterranean Basin : Current Status and Future Prospects
- Part 4. Southern Hemisphere Aridlands: Selected Examples
- Chapter 12. Southern African Drylands
- Current Status and Future Prospects
- Chapter 13. Arid and Semiarid Rangelands of Argentina
- Chapter 14. The Impact of Climate Variability on Land use and Livelihoods in Australia's Rangelands
- Part 5. Summary, Synthesis and Concluding Remarks
- Chapter 15. Drylands Under a Climate Change Regime: Implications for the Land and the Pastoral People they Support
- Chapter 16. Unifying concepts, synthesis and conclusions.