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Arid Land Systems: Sciences and Societies
Troy Sternberg and Ariell Ahearn
2019
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Understanding deserts and drylands is essential, as arid landscapes cover >40% of the Earth and are home to two billion people. Today's problematic environment–human interaction needs contemporary knowledge to address dryland complexity. Physical dimensions in arid zones—land systems, climate and hazards, ecology—are linked with social processes that directly impact drylands, such as land management, livelihoods, and development. The challenges require integrated research that identifies systemic drivers across global arid regions. Measurement and monitoring, field investigation, remote sensing, and data analysis are effective tools to investigate natural dynamics. Equally, inquiry into how policy and practice affect landscape sustainability is key to mitigating detrimental activity in deserts. Relations between socio-economic forces and degradation, agro-pastoral rangeland use, drought and disaster and resource extraction reflect land interactions. Contemporary themes of food security, conflict, and conservation are interlinked in arid environments. This book unifies desert science, arid environments, and dryland development. The chapters identify land dynamics, address system risks and delineate human functions through original research in arid zones. Mixed methodologies highlight the vital links between social and environmental science in global deserts. The book engages with today's topical themes and presents novel analyses of arid land systems and societies.
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Keywords
- absence
- aerodynamic roughness
- Afar
- afforestation
- agricultural water intensity
- Agriculture
- air temperature increase
- arid area
- arid region
- Asia
- Asian dust
- Belt and Road Initiative
- case study of nomadic and settlement grazing system
- Cellular automata
- Central Asia
- charisma
- China
- Chobe
- climate hazard
- Co-management
- common-pool resource
- communal rangelands
- computational fluid dynamics
- Conservation
- continuous grazing
- coverage
- cross correlation analysis
- Cuchillas de la Zarca
- decoupling
- degrading
- desert
- Desert reclamation
- désertification
- Disturbance
- drag partition
- drip irrigation
- driving forces
- drought
- dry lake beds
- dryland
- drylands
- dust storm emission
- dust storm outbreak
- economic valuation
- Ecosystem services
- ecotone
- Environment
- Environmental Impacts
- Environmental justice
- environmental regime shift
- Erosion
- Ethiopia
- farming at its limits
- fodder demand
- fodder supply
- forest resources
- global carbon balance
- Gobi
- Gobi desert of Mongolia
- Gobi Desert region
- grass height
- grassland degradation
- Greenland
- Groundwater
- Human health
- increase of growing season
- Infrastructure
- institutional change
- invasive vine
- Israel
- Japan
- Jordan
- Jordan River Basin
- Kashgar Region
- KAZA
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- land cover/land use
- Land use change
- Landscape
- Livestock
- local farming
- LUCC
- Mining
- modelling
- Mongolia
- Mongolian grassland
- mountains of Central Asia
- national parks
- New Silk Road
- nomadic pastoralism
- non-linear change
- Nyangatom
- One Belt
- One Road
- Palestine
- partnerships
- pastoralism
- policy implementation
- Political ecology
- Property rights
- protected areas
- protest
- Regeneration
- Remote sensing
- riparian ecosystems
- Risk
- river basin development
- rotational grazing
- Sanjiangyuan region
- snow index
- Social movements
- social–ecological systems
- soil carbon storage
- soil quality index
- Sonoran desert
- South Omo
- southern Africa
- spatial migration model
- SPOT VGT
- subarctic agriculture
- subversive clientelism
- sustainable livelihoods
- tamarind age
- the Hovmoller diagram
- the Shiyang River Basin
- Tibetan Plateau
- vegetation response to precipitation
- vegetation survey
- Water
- water productivity
- Water rights
- Water security
- wind erosion modelling
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DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-03921-348-1Editions
