Towards Sustainable Use of Rangelands in China's North West is based on the program of the Intern...

This volume of 18 chapters is the work of more than 30 authors, many of whom are natives of the C...

Exhaustively reviews the key recent research on the current status and future prospects of the wo...

Discusses carbon management and its linkages with livelihood improvement of the fragile communiti...

This volume analyzes the global challenges of food security, land use changes, and climate change...

This book is about the 'how' of desertification control as opposed to an analysis of the 'why' an...

Naturally occurring salt tolerant and halophytic plants (trees, shrubs, grasses, and forbs) have ...

In this book an interdisciplinary team of experts provide a comprehensive analysis of sustainable...

This book explores the creation and use of grasslands by humans from the earliest time to the pre...

Many chapters attempt to reconstruct past climatic changes in deserts and their margins at a vari...

The application of recently available high-resolution satellite data for mapping and change detec...

This edited volume is devoted to the examination of the implications of the inevitable changes wr...