| 书目名称 | The End of Desertification? |
| 副标题 | Disputing Environmen |
| 编辑 | Roy Behnke,Michael Mortimore |
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| 概述 | One of the first books in the new Springer-Praxis Earth System Series.Written by a global team of experts with up-to-date knowledge of desertification.Makes good use of colour images for scientific in |
| 丛书名称 | Springer Earth System Sciences |
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| 描述 | The question in the title of this book draws attention to the shortcomings of a concept that has become a political tool of global importance even as the scientific basis for its use grows weaker. The concept of desertification, it can be argued, has ceased to be analytically useful and distorts our understanding of social-environmental systems and their resiliency, particularly in poor countries with variable rainfall and persistent poverty. For better policy and governance, we need to reconsider the scientific justification for international attempts to combat desertification. .Our exploration of these issues begins in the Sahel of West Africa, where a series of severe droughts at the end of the 20th century led to the global institutionalization of the idea of desertification. It now seems incontrovertible that these droughts were not caused primarily by local land use mismanagement, effectively terminating a long-standing policy and scientific debate. There is now an opportunity to treat this episode as an object lesson in the relationship between science, the formation of public opinion and international policy-making. .Looking beyond the Sahel, the chapters in this book prov |
| 出版日期 | Book 2016 |
| 关键词 | Climate change; Desertification; Environmental impacts of drought; Rangeland management; Sahelian drough |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16014-1 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-662-56851-4 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-642-16014-1Series ISSN 2197-9596 Series E-ISSN 2197-960X |
| issn_series | 2197-9596 |
| copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016 |
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