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| Other authors / contributors: | Heshmati, G. Ali.
Squires, Victor R., 1937- (Victor R.),
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| ISBN: | 9789400766525 (electronic bk.)
9400766521 (electronic bk.)
9789400766518
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| Notes: | Includes index.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 12, 2013).
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| Summary: | This book 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. There are numerous illustrations 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 mountains
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