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The Threatening Desert: Controlling Desertification (Earthscan Library Collection: Natural Resource Management Set) by Alan Grainger, 2009-10 Land Degradation and Desertification Atlas of Mediterranean Desertification World Atlas of Desertification (Hodder Arnold Publication) Desertification in Third Millennium Desertification (An Earthscan paperback) by Allen Grainger, 1982-06 Desertification in extremely arid environments (Stuttgarter geographische Studien) Deforestation, drought, and desertification: Perceptions on a growing ecological crisis (Studies in ecology and sustainable development) Land, Man, and Sand: Desertification and Its Solution by James Walls, 1980-01 Towards control of desertification in African drylands: Problems, experiences, guidelines (Sonderpublikation der GTZ) by Johannes; Adelhelm, Reinhard Kotschi, 1986 Desertification: Associated Case Studies Presented at the United Nations Conference on Desertification, 29 August to 9 September 1977, Nairobi, Kenya (Environmental Sciences and Applications, V. 12) by Kenya) United Nations Conference on Desertification (1977 Nairobi, Asit K. Biswas, et all 1977-10 Desertification Control in the Arid Ecosystems of India for Sustainable Development Case Studies on Desertification. Ed by J.A. Mabbutt (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Natural Resources Resea) by Unesco, 1981-09 Mediterranean Desertification: A Mosaic of Processes and Responses

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41. SciDev.Net
    Science s struggle against Sahel desertification. *. With desertification spreading in Africa s Sahel, Nico Colombant reports on how locals, scientists and  
    http://www.scidev.net/desertscience/

42. Welcome To SEPADO - SOMALIA
    SEPADO, Somali Environmental Protection and Anti desertification Organisation is Non Profit / Non Governmental Organisation that combats with environmental  
    http://members.tripod.com/~sepado/
    
    Extractions: Due to the lack of central government in Somalia during the last 6 years is causing the environment of Somalia to suffer greatly as a result of human destruction. The environmental condition of Somalia is catastrophic and deteriorating day after day. Following are major threats facing the environment in Somalia:

43. Climate Progress » Blog Archive » The Century Of Drought
    Business as usual greenhouse gas emissions may lead to desertification for a stunning 30% of the Earth’s surface! And now we learn Severe water shortages  
    http://climateprogress.org/2006/10/04/the-century-of-drought/
    
    Extractions: The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics One third of the planet will be desert by the year 2100. This stunning new UK research, from the , shows Within 100 years, some 30 percent of Earth will be rendered essentially uninhabitable, leading to mass migrations and millions of environmental refugees. And this result is based on a greenhouse gas emissions growth scenario that ignores key carbon cycle vicious cycles (such as the tundra melting The Independent In one unpublished Met Office study, when the carbon cycle effects are included, future drought is even worse. In the last decade of the 20th century droughts were nearly 25% more widespread than in the previous 40 years Climate Progress has noted the undercoverage of the drought-climate link in the major US media , but the British media certainly gets it, as evidenced by the cover story in The Independent . That may be because there is less muzzling of scientists . The If only our political leadership were as concerned with the security threat from global warming. Share This This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 4th, 2006 at 11:42 amand is filed under

44. Desertification: What It Is And How To Fix It -- Articles
    Article index Most conventional solutions to desertification and land damage don t work. Articles based on proven successes from around the world.  
    http://managingwholes.com/-ecosystem-desertification.htm
    
    Extractions: Creating a future that works Match ALL words Match ANY word Home Newest Photos Tutorials ... Post Why conventional "solutions" fail to reverse desertification; proven methods that work. Desertification is an age-old problem. Since writing was invented, people have lamented landscape damage and urged better care of the land. Despite the march of science and billions spent to combat desertification, the world's deserts continue to grow. Conventional techniques failed to revegetate this former gold mine, which had no topsoil. After broadcasting seed, feeding hay to cattle jump-started soil-building processes. The restored land outperformed some nearby hayfields. On EcoResults! website. How it works Desertification is the process by which productive land becomes unproductive desert. Desertification: why most solutions fail A 1-page primer by Peter Donovan. 2002. Take the desertification quiz and test your knowledge. Is overgrazing caused by too much livestock, or something else? Bonus quiz at bottom. By Peter Donovan, 2002.

45. Reuters AlertNet - Global Plan Tackles Neglected Issue Of Desertification
    China, which is plagued by sandstorms every spring, has embarked on a campaign to plant billions of trees and says it s slowing the rate of desertification,  
    http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/40453/2007/08/27-130219-1.htm
    
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46. China Adopts Law To Control Desertification
    China has adopted new legislation intended to control and ultimately reverse the worsening trend of desertification in the country, which currently claims  
    http://www.usembassy-china.org.cn/sandt/desertification_law.htm
    
    Extractions: Home Search Site Map Contact Us ... PRC Press Clippings A November 2001 Report from U.S. Embassy Beijing China has adopted new legislation intended to control and ultimately reverse the worsening trend of desertification in the country, which currently claims about 2,500 square kilometers a year at an estimated annual direct economic cost of RMB 54 billion ($6.5 billion). The new law: As with other Chinese environmental laws, funding and enforcement will be key to success. Policies in other, seemingly unrelated areas such as urban residency and urban land use will also impact China’s ability to slow the speed of desertification. National People’s Congress Tackles Desertification The National People’s Congress (NPC) August 31 adopted a new law to control and prevent desertification in China, which has become a hot-button issue in Beijing over the past two years as sandstorms have struck the city with increasing frequency and intensity. The law will go into effect January 1. It contains a mixture of old-fashioned, command-and-control central planning as well as economic incentives more attuned to the country’s emerging market economy. The law scarcely acknowledges, however, the deep-rooted social problems — primarily, China’s surplus rural population — which are the principal causes of desertification here (see report titled:

47. ALN No. 40: Web Resources On Desertification
    Annotated list of web resources on desertification, published in Arid Lands Newsletter No. 40, fall/winter 1996. Links published in this list are  
    http://cals.arizona.edu/OALS/ALN/aln40/WebResources.html
    
    Extractions: The CCD, Part I: Africa and the Mediterranean Web resources on desertification Compiled and annotated by Katherine Waser "The successful implementation of the Convention would make a significant contribution to solving some of our most pressing problems, including food security, water conservation, drought emergency management, poverty reduction, and migration." Mr. Hama Arba Diallo Executive Secretary, Interim Secretariat for the CCD speaking at the FAO World Food Summit , November 1996. [Ed. note: links last checked March 2000] This list covers World Wide Web resources on: The list is not intended to be exhaustive; rather, the focus is on sites that house original content and/or data, directory sites with so many good links they simply must be included, and sites that struck me as being particularly in line with the aims and provisions of the CCD. [Please note also that I have added "Further Web Resources" links to the end of an individual article, in those cases where the link in question seemed more applicable to that particular article than to this overall list.]

48. What's Desertification
    desertification is the degradation of land in arid, semiarid, and dry sub-humid areas. It is a gradual process of the loss of soil productivity and the  
    http://www.desertnightsfestival.org/what_is_desertification.htm
    
    Extractions: Desertification is the degradation of land in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas. It is a gradual process of the loss of soil productivity and the thinning out of the vegetative cover resulting from human activities and climatic variations such as prolonged droughts and floods. What is alarming is that the land's topsoil, which takes centuries to build up, can, if mistreated, be blown and washed away in a few seasons. Among human causal factors are overcultivation, overgrazing, deforestation and poor irrigation practices. Such overexploitation is generally caused by economic and social pressure, ignorance, war and drought. Desertification is a worldwide problem directly affecting 250 million people and more than 4 billion hectares of land one third of the Earth's surface area.In addition, desertification threatens the livelihoods of some one billion people who depend on land for most of their needs and are usually the world's poorest, in more than 100 countries.

49. United Nations Convention To Combat Desertification
    Combating desertification in Central and Eastern Europe, Frequently Asked Questions about desertification, - Down to Earth A simplified guide to the  
    http://www.unccd.entico.com/
    
    Extractions: INFORMATION Shortcuts: Introduction to the Convention and desertification BASIC FACTS 1. Introduction 2. The causes of desertification 3. The consequences of desertification 4. Action programmes for combating desertification 5. Partnership arrangements between donors and affected states 6. Participatory development: A bottom-up approach 7. The role of science and technology 8. Financing action to combat desertification 9. Institutions and procedures of the Convention 10. Desertification, global change, and sustainable development 11. Combating desertification in Africa 12. Combating desertification in Asia 13. Combating desertification in Latin America and the Caribbean 14. Combating desertification in Northern Mediterranean 15. Combating desertification in Central and Eastern Europe - Frequently Asked Questions about desertification - Down to Earth: A simplified guide to the Convention THE CONVENTION Preface Prologue I Introduction II General Provisions IV Institutions V Procedures VI Final Provisions Annex I Regional Implementation Annex for Africa Annex II Regional Implementation Annex for Asia Annex III Reg Imp Annex for Latin America and the Caribbean Annex IV Reg Imp Annex for the Northern Mediterranean Annex V Reg Imp Annex for Central and Eastern Europe

50. The Future Is Green: Word Desertification Day
    Every June 17 is recognized as World Day to Combat desertification by the United Nations. This year the day s theme was the linkages between climate change  
    http://greenfuture.blogspot.com/2007/06/word-desertification-day.html
    
    Extractions: @import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=5744235"); Thoughts on the coming of a society that is in balance with nature and the magnitude of the problems in the way; facing the reality that the present world's population has moved beyond the earth's carrying capacity, the looming peak in world oil production, green alternatives, and the least painful paths to a sustainable society. Every June 17 is recognized as World Day to Combat Desertification by the United Nations. This year the day's theme was the linkages between climate change and desertification. China, one of the world's worst hit countries , has seen thousands of Chinese villages disappear before its expanding deserts. The problem has been made worse by the legacy of Mao's Great Leap Forward, which sought to make China a self sufficient food producer by bringing marginal lands under cultivation. However, overuse of the land and

51. Just Deserts Bad Soil Practices Create A Sea Of Sand (By Paul
    According to the United Nations, desertification is degrading soil The UN has declared 2006 the International Year of Deserts and desertification.  
    http://www.emagazine.com/view/?3346

52. Homepage - Deserts, Drylands And Desertification 2008
    Deserts, Drylands and desertification 2008 conference website.  
    http://www.desertopportunities.org/
    
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53. Desertification Taking Toll On Africa's Sahel
    Mohamed Ali Ag Mattahel, himself a member of the nomadic Tuareg ethnic group, says nomadic herders are often accused of worsening desertification.  
    http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-07-31-voa38.cfm
    
    Extractions: var gMenuControlID=0; var menus_included = 0; var jsPageAuthorMode = 0; var jsSessionPreviewON = 1; var jsDlgLoader = '/english/Archive/loader.cfm'; var jsSiteID = 13; var jsSubSiteID = 75; var kurrentPageID = 165374; document.CS_StaticURL = ""; document.CS_DynamicURL = ""; Text Only Search V OICE OF A MERICA VOA Home VOA English Regions/Topics Subscribe to E-mail ... About VOA Gerbil-like rodents ravage crops He says it is all a result of desertification. "The development of these desert species of rodents is brought about through a degradation of the environment. Their arrival has caused a type of human illness called borreliosis to progress southward," said Duplantier. "It is a disease of recurrent fevers. Doctors often confuse it with malaria and give the wrong medication. Some people talk about resistant malaria when they actually have this other disease caused by the presence of rodents." Diseases in Africa used to be mostly water-borne, but with desertification that is

54. Desertification And Drought :: United Nations System-Wide EARTHWATCH
    This publication was initiated and compiled by the secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat desertification (UNCCD) as part of a Global  
    http://earthwatch.unep.net/desertification/index.php
    
    Extractions: The GEF in partnership with FAO, UNEP, Global Mechanism of the UNCCD and other partners, has provided resources to catalyse an international undertaking in supporting a Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (LADA) project to develop and test an effective assessment methodology for land degradation in drylands. Prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as task manager for chapters 10 and 14, and the United Nations Environment Programme as task manager for chapter 12, of Agenda 21, with contributions from other United Nations agencies and international organizations and major groups. UNCCD Implementing the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Africa :Ten African Experiences

55. Global Desertification: Building A Science For Dryland Development -- Reynolds E
    The DDP, supported by a growing and welldocumented set of tools for policy and management action, helps navigate the inherent complexity of desertification  
    http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/316/5826/847?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&h

56. Ron Gluckman Reports From China
    Article and photos describe desertification in China, where the desert is on the move. With dunes already 75 kilometers from Beijing, environmentalists fear  
    http://www.gluckman.com/ChinaDesert.html
    
    Extractions: Beijing's Desert Storm The desert is sweeping into China's valleys, choking rivers and consuming precious farm land. Beijing has responded with massive tree-planting campaigns, but the Great Green Walls may not be able to buffer the sand, which could cover the capital in a few years By Ron Gluckman /Beijing, Fengning and Langtougou, China F ROM HIS ROOFTOP, Su Rongxi maintains an unsteady balance, perched between the past and a precarious future. One foot is planted firmly upon his tiled roof. The other sinks ankle-deep into a huge sand dune that threatens to engulf his house and Langtougou village, where his ancestors have lived for generations. For this dirt-poor town in Hebei province, the sands of time aren't just a quaint notion, they are close at hand, burning the eyes and lungs. And for Langtougou, the sands seem to be ticking out. "We have no money to move and, besides, who would have us?" says Su. "There's nothing to do but dig away the sand and wait to see what happens. Sometimes I dream of the sand falling around me faster than I can dig away. The sand chokes me. I worry that in real life, the sand will win." Su and his neighbors are ethnic Manchurians who survive by cultivating subsistence crops and raising horses, goats and pigs. But this year violent sandstorms dumped entire dunes into the once-fertile Fengning county valley. Now most of the grass is gone and the Chaobai River stands dry. Besieged villagers say they have no idea where the sand came from. The scary bit? Su's almost-buried house is nowhere near the heart of China's rapidly encroaching deserts. It is just 160 km north of Beijing. Suddenly, rural Langtougou has become a barren outpost on the front line of a national battlefield.

57. Land-Use And Land-Cover Change
    4, desertification Open this part of the menu tree desertification, biodiversity loss, land cover and the water cycle, land cover and the carbon cycle  
    http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/tg/guide_frame.jsp?rd=LU&ds=1

58. Deforestation, Desertification, And The Drought In West Africa
    Zheng and Eltahir (1997) studied the response of the monsoon system to deforestation and desertification using a simple model. The results suggest that the  
    http://web.mit.edu/eltahir/www/deforestation.html
    
    Extractions: regionally averaged standardized departures, Nicholson (1993) Eltahir and Gong (1996) proposed a general framework for describing the role of biosphere-atmosphere-ocean interactions. It emphasizes the role of the gradient in boundary layer moist static energy (entropy) between ocean and land in modulating the dynamics of the monsoon.

59. The Creeping Desert / IPS Inter Press Service
    MADRID Legislatures have been taken to task over their track record in addressing desertification, this at the eighth session of the Conference of the  
    http://ipsnews.net/new_focus/desert/index.asp
    
    Extractions: Homepage Latest News Search Languages ... About Us Thursday, January 24, 2008 22:09 GMT - Global Affairs - Africa - Asia-Pacific Afghanistan ... - Email News What is RSS? ENGLISH ARABIC DEUTSCH ITALIANO ... Text Only D esertification could force some 60 million to migrate from sub-Saharan Africa to Northern Africa and Europe by 2020. More than 250 million people worldwide directly suffer the effects of desertification, and another 1.2 billion in 110 countries are threatened by this degradation of otherwise arable and habitable land caused by climate change and by unsustainable land-use practices like overgrazing, deforestation and burning. IPS offers insights into a phenomenon that is undermining development in Africa and around the world, and which requires the immediate attention of the international community and local peoples alike. AFRICA MUST BE HEARD ON CLIMATE CHANGE

60. Desertification --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia
    Britannica online encyclopedia article on desertification spread or encroachment of a desert environment into arid or semiarid regions, caused by climatic  
    http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9030060/desertification
    
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