The Future of Arid Lands-Revisited
A Review of 50 Years of Drylands Research
(Sprache: Englisch)
The Future of Arid Lands, edited by Gilbert White and published in 1956, comprised papers delivered at the "International Arid Lands Meetings" held in New Mexico in 1955. At these meetings, experts considered the major issues then confronting the world's...
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The Future of Arid Lands, edited by Gilbert White and published in 1956, comprised papers delivered at the "International Arid Lands Meetings" held in New Mexico in 1955. At these meetings, experts considered the major issues then confronting the world's arid lands and developed a research agenda to address these issues. This book reexamines this earlier work and explores changes in the science and management of arid lands over the past 50 years within their historical contexts.
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Foreword.- Chapter 1: Introduction: the future is now.- 1.1. The Future of Arid Lands.- 1.2 The Future of Arid Lands - Revisited .- 1.2.1. Scope.- 1.2.2. Audience.- 1.2.3. Objective. Chapter 2. Contexts.- 2.1. The situation in the 1950s.- 2.1.1 Ambience: the post-World War II years.- 2.1.2. Science: belief in technology.- 2.1.3. Policy: focus on growth .- 2.2 The situation today.- 2.2.1. Ambience: towards a globalized world Globalization: Developing countries, Globalization: Industrialized countries.- 2.2.2. Science: complexity and uncertainty.- 2.2.3. Policy: focus on sustainability .- Box 2.1: Drought follows the plow - boom and bust in drylands. Chapter 3: The search for water.- 3.1 The situation in the 1950s.- 3.1.1. Surface water development .- 3.1.2. Groundwater development.- 3.1.3. Water harvesting.- 3.1.4. Desalination .- 3.1.5 Water reuse.- 3.1.6 Water use efficiency.- 3.2 The situation today.- 3.2.1. Surface water development.- 3.2.2 Groundwater .- 3.2.3 Water harvesting.- 3.2.4 Desalination .- 3.2.5 Wastewater .- 3.2.6 Stormwater.- 3.2.7 Conservation.- 3.2.8 Integrated water resource management.- Box 3.1: The Aral Sea.- Box 3.2: The Salton Sea. Chapter 4. Weather modification - more than bargained for?.- 4.1 The situation in the 1950s .- 4.1.1 Understanding climate variability .- 4.1.2 Weather modification: making it rain .- 4.2 The situation today .- 4.2.1 Advances in understanding climate variability .- 4.2.2 Revisiting weather modification .- 4.2.3 Global climate change and drylands .- Box 4.1: Project Cirrus (1947-1952).- Box 4.2: Use of ENSO information for southern Africa.- Box 4.3: No Snows of Kilimanjaro - a threat to water resources in the adjacent drylands?. Chapter 5. Plant and animal alternatives.- 5.1. The situation in the 1950s .- 5.1.1 Exploiting what is there.- 5.1.2 Developing new crops from dryland plants.- 5.1.3 Importing new resources from other drylands.- 5.1.4 Improving crops for dryland environments.- 5.2 Thesituation today.- 5.2.1.
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Exploiting what is there.- 5.2.2. Developing new crops from dryland plants.- 5.2.3 Importing new resources from other drylands.- 5.2.4 Improving crops for dryland environments.- 5.2.5 Livestock.- 5.2.6 Changes in the scope of research .- Box 5.1: Guayule: A 'new' drylands crop.- Box 5.2: The prickly pear menace in Australia.- Box 5.3: Buffelgrass: Boon or bane?. Chapter 6: Ecosystems .- 6.1 The situation in the 1950s.- 6.1.1 Ecological balance as guiding principle .- 6.1.2 Systems thinking in its infancy .- 6.2 The situation today.- 6.2.1 'New Ecology' and the non-equilibrium paradigm .- 6.2.2 Complex systems science.- Ecosystems ecology.- Biogeochemistry.- 6.2.3 Panarchy.- Box 6.1: Succession and the classification of range condition .- Box 6.2: Santa Rita Experimental Range (SRER).- Box 6.3: The elephant question in Tsavo. Chapter 7: Land Use and Management .- 7.1 The situation in the 1950s.- 7.1.1 Drylands as a source of food: The Malthusian argument.- 7.1.2 Concerns about 'overuse'.- 7.2 The situation today.- 7.2.1 Multiple land use alternatives .- Agriculture.- Urbanization.- Recreation and tourism.- Climate change mitigation .- 7.2.2 Systems approaches in land management.- Gestion de terroirs.- Integrated watershed management.- 7.2.3 Dryland management in the context of global debates.- Sustainability and sustainable development.- The desertification debate.- Box 7.1: The Virgin Lands Programme in the Soviet Union .- Box 7.2: Integrated river basin management: The Nile Basin Initiative. Chapter 8: Policy in and for drylands.- 8.1 The situation in the 1950s.- 8.1.1 Development through 'modernization' .- 8.1.2 National governments as key political actors .- 8.1.3 Global institutions in their beginning.- 8.2 The situation today.- 8.2.1 New views on development .- 8.2.2 Global environmental governance.- Desertification.- Climate change.- 8.2.3 Inter-sectoral and inter-institutional coordination and cooperation.- 8.2.4 Civil society, parti
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Stefanie M. Herrmann , Charles F. Hutchinson
- 2007, 2008, 244 Seiten, Maße: 16 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- ISBN-10: 1402066880
- ISBN-13: 9781402066887
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.10.2007
Sprache:
Englisch
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