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Combating desertification with plants / edited by Dov Pasternak and Arnold Schlissel.
LIBRA S627.P55 C66 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plants for soil conservation--Congresses.
- Plants for soil conservation.
- Soil conservation--Congresses.
- Soil conservation.
- Plants for soil conservation--Africa--Congresses.
- Soil conservation--Africa--Congresses.
- Africa.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 462 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2001]
- Summary:
- This book deals with the role of plants in combating desertification. Desertification - the degradation of soils in drylands - is a phenomenon occurring in scores of countries around the globe. The number of people (in semiarid regions) affected by the steady decline in the productivity of their lands is in the hundred millions. This work provides the reader with the experience of scientists from 30 countries and international institutions around the globe, working in cold and warm dry regions to bring plant-based solutions to one of the most severe problems of our times. The measures required to halt or reverse the process of desertification fall into many categories - policy, institutional, sociological/anthropological, and technical.
- Notes:
- "Proceedings of the conference Combating Desertification with Plants, held November 2-5, 1999, in Beer Sheva, Israel"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0306466325
- OCLC:
- 47142083
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