Sustainable Land Management in Greater Central Asia - An Integrated and Regional Perspective

In this book an interdisciplinary team of experts provide a comprehensive analysis of sustainable land management in Central Asia, sharing problems and solutions. This book will be of value to scholars, students, policy makers and NGOs with an interest in sustainable development in Central Asia.

List of contents

Part I: Introduction

1. Greater Central Asia: its peoples and their history and geography

2. Biogeography and natural resources of Greater Central Asia: an overview

3. Managing the commons in the post-Soviet transition: what are the challenges of institutional change in pastoral systems in Uzbekistan?

Part II: Sustainable land management: a dream or an economic and ecological imperative

4. Sustainable land management: a pathway to sustainable development

5. The future we want: putting aspirations for a land degradation neutral world into practice in the GCA region

6. Barriers to sustainable land management in Greater Central Asia: with special reference to the five former Soviet republics

Part III: The nature and extent of land degradation in Greater Central Asia

7. Assessment of land degradation processes and identification of long-term trends in vegetation dynamics in the drylands of Greater Central Asia

8. Land degradation indicators: development and implementation by remote sensing techniques

9. Mitigation of desertification and land degradation impacts and multilateral cooperation in Greater Central Asia

Part IV: Thematic issues of SLM in Great Central Asia

10. Water in Central Asia: a cross-cutting management issue

11. Water from the mountains of Greater Central Asia: a resource under threat

Part V: Consolidating and summarizing findings: the way forward

12. Greater Central Asia as the new frontier in the twenty-first century

13. Greater Central Asia: China, Russia or multilateralism?

14. Unifying perspectives on land, water, people, national development and an agenda for future social-ecological research

About the author

Victor R. Squires is a Guest Professor in the Institute of Desertification Studies, Beijing and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.

Lu Qi is Director and Chief Researcher of the Institute of Desertification Studies, Chinese Academy of Forestry, China.

Summary

In this book an interdisciplinary team of experts provide a comprehensive analysis of sustainable land management in Central Asia, sharing problems and solutions. This book will be of value to scholars, students, policy makers and NGOs with an interest in sustainable development in Central Asia.

Product details

• Authors: Lu (Institute of Desertification Studies Qi, Victor Qi Squires
• Assisted by: Lu Qi (Editor), Victor Squires (Editor), Victor R. Squires (Editor), Squires Victor (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367872663
• ISBN: 978-0-367-87266-3
• No. of pages: 310
• Series: Routledge Studies in Asia and the Environment
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Ethnic Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Central Asia, environmental science, engineering & technology, Environmental Management, Social and cultural history, Development Studies, Development economics and emerging economies, Environmental science, engineering and technology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General