Land Degradation
Creation and Destruction, Second Edition
This up-to-date, second edition of Land Degradation explores substantial decreases in the land's biological productivity or usefulness to humans due to human activities. Case studies_including tourist impacts in Europe, the environmental footprints of urban areas, wetland drainage for agriculture in the American Midwest, run-on farming in the Negev, land degradation in the Amazon Basin, and irrigation in Egypt_cover the history of land degradation, identify the level of human responsibility in transforming natural landscapes into sustainable agro-ecosystems, look at local and regional effects of human interactions with the environment, and re…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Lewis, Laurence A.
- ISBN: 978-0-7425-1947-3
- EAN: 9780742519473
- Produktnummer: 2329212
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 318 S.
- Masse: H26.0 cm x B18.3 cm x D2.1 cm 798 g
- Auflage: Second Edition
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 798
Über den Autor
Douglas L. Johnson is professor of geography at Clark University. Laurence A. Lewis is professor of geography at Clark University.
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