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Deserts : fauna, flora and environment
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ISBN: 9781614700388 1614700389 9781613249772 1613249772 Year: 2012 Publisher: Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers,

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Deserts. --- Arid regions --- Landforms


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Status of groundwater quality in the California desert region, 2006-2008 : California GAMA Priority Basin Project
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Year: 2012 Publisher: Reston, Va. : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey,

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Groundwater --- Deserts --- Quality --- Water-supply.


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Hot deserts : engineering, geology and geomorphology ; Engineering Group Working Party report
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ISBN: 1786201623 1523122048 Year: 2012 Publisher: London : Geological Society,

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Changing Deserts : Integrating People and their Environment.
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ISBN: 1912186314 1874267693 Year: 2012 Publisher: Winwick, Cambridgeshire : The White Horse Press,

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Deserts - vast, empty places where time appears to stand still. The very word conjures images of endless seas of sand, blistering heat and a virtual absence of life. However, deserts encompass a large variety of landscapes and life beyond our stereotypes. As well as magnificent Saharan dunes under blazing sun, the desert concept encompasses the intensely cold winters of the Gobi, the snow-covered expanse of Antarctica and the rock-strewn drylands of Pakistan. Deserts are environments in perpetual flux and home to peoples as diverse as their surroundings, peoples who grapple with a broad spectrum of cultural, political and environmental issues as they wrest livelihoods from marginal lands.


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The Aralkum, a Man-Made Desert on the Desiccated Floor of the Aral Sea (Central Asia) : Final Conclusions and Comments
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ISBN: 9783642211164 Year: 2012 Publisher: London Springer

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Changing Deserts : Integrating People and their Environment.
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ISBN: 9781912186310 1912186314 Year: 2012 Publisher: Winwick, Cambridgeshire : The White Horse Press,

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Deserts - vast, empty places where time appears to stand still. The very word conjures images of endless seas of sand, blistering heat and a virtual absence of life. However, deserts encompass a large variety of landscapes and life beyond our stereotypes. As well as magnificent Saharan dunes under blazing sun, the desert concept encompasses the intensely cold winters of the Gobi, the snow-covered expanse of Antarctica and the rock-strewn drylands of Pakistan. Deserts are environments in perpetual flux and home to peoples as diverse as their surroundings, peoples who grapple with a broad spectrum of cultural, political and environmental issues as they wrest livelihoods from marginal lands.


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Desire for greener land : options for sustainable land management in drylands
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ISBN: 9789461733290 9461733291 Year: 2012 Publisher: Bern: University of Bern,

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Desire for Greener Land compiles options for Sustainable Land Management (SLM) in drylands. It is a result of the integrated research project DESIRE (Desertification Mitigation and Remediation of Land - A Global Approach for Local Solutions). Lasting five years (2007-2012) and funded within the EU's Sixth Framework Programme, DESIRE brought together the expertise of 26 international research institutes and non-governmental organisations. The DESIRE project aimed to establish promising alternative land use and management strategies in 17 degradation and desertification sites around the world, relying on close collaboration between scientists and local stakeholder groups. The study sites provided a global laboratory in which researchers could apply, test, and identify new and innovative approaches to combatting desertification. The resulting SLM strategies are local- to regional-scale interventions designed to increase productivity, preserve natural resource bases, and improve people's livelihoods.These were documented and mapped using the internationally recognised WOCAT (World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies) methodological framework, which formed an integral part of the DESIRE project.


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Horizons in earth science research
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ISBN: 9781614705314 1614705313 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc.,

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Horizons in earth science research
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ISBN: 9781619429499 1619429497 9781607412212 1607412217 1612094880 9781612094885 9781611227635 9781612094885 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Nova Science Publishers,

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Food security in Asia
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ISBN: 1283939932 8132111079 9788132111078 9788132109068 8132109066 9781283939935 Year: 2012 Publisher: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE,

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Food Security in Asia provides a comprehensive analysis of the critical dimensions of food security in various countries of Asia. It attempts to draw attention towards the fact that food insecurity is a complex phenomenon, requiring a comprehensive response encompassing increasing food production, expanding economic access to food, especial access to food for disadvantaged groups and most importantly, breaking down the gender-based barriers to accessing food. While highlighting on the pressure exerted by climate change and world population growth, it also prescribes certain id

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