Mediterranean Desertification and Land Use

Informationen zum Autor C. Jane Brandt is the editor of Mediterranean Desertification and Land Use , published by Wiley. John B. Thornes is the editor of Mediterranean Desertification and Land Use , published by Wiley. Klappentext Desertification is land degradation due to climatic and anthropogenic causes where ?land? includes soil, water and the biological productive capacity. This has become a major environmental, economic and political issue in Mediterranean countries. In order to address the problem in the European countries of the Mediterranean, the European Commission established a number of major research projects under its DGXII Environment and Climate Programme MEDALUS (Mediterranean Desertification and Land Use). This book describes the results from the first phase of the project, dealing with local physical, socio-economic and political controls on desertification. In particular the book concentrates on the models developed, calibrated and validated, the field investigations into biological, hydrological and erosional processes at the seven main sites, and provides an introduction to the problems associated with global warming in the Mediterranean context. GIS and remote sensing are an integral part of the investigation and the results are described and discussed in detail. Zusammenfassung This book describes the findings of the MEDALUS project to explore the international scale of problems caused by desertification and to provide the tools and policies to deal with them. It deals with the physical and anthropological processes of desertification and the methods used to investigate them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Partial table of contents: The Historical Context: Before 1850 (A. Grove). Changes in Traditional Mediterranean Land-Use Systems (N. Margaris,et al.). The MADALUS Core Field Programme: An Overview of Sites andMethodology (L. Cammeraat). The Rio Santa Lucia Site: An Integrated Study of Desertification(A. Aru). The Petralona and Hortiatis Field Sites (Thessaloniki, Greece) (J.Diamantopoulos, et al.). The Effects of Rock Fragments on Desertification Processes inMediterranean Environments (J. Poesen K. Bunte). Mediterranean Ecology and an Ecological Synthesis of the FieldSites (S. Clark). The Response of Landscape Units to Desertification (A. Imerson, etal.). Index....

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• Authors: C. J. Brandt, C. J. Thornes Brandt, C. Jane Brandt, C. Jane (King''''s College Brandt, C. Jane Thornes Brandt, BRANDT C J THORNES J B, Thornes
• Assisted by: C Jane Brandt (Editor), C. J. Brandt (Editor), C. Jane Brandt (Editor), C. Jane (King's College Brandt (Editor), Jane Brandt (Editor), J. B. Thornes (Editor), John B Thornes (Editor), John B. Thornes (Editor), John B. (King's College Thornes (Editor), Thornes John B. (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.10.1996
• EAN: 9780471942504
• ISBN: 978-0-471-94250-4
• No. of pages: 576
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; NATURE / Natural Resources, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Mediterranean Sea, Pollution & threats to the environment, Environmental Management, Conservation of the environment, Pollution and threats to the environment